Critics Corner

Reviews of books, websites, poster sets, movies, and other resources for learning and teaching the history of mathematics.

A history of the development of Pascal's triangle in its various manifestations

A novel about Pythagoras and his followers

A study of the nature of architecture in ancient Egypt and its relationship to Egyptian mathematics.

An excellent and careful study of matrix methods for solving systems of linear equations in first century China.

A wonderful book about the square root of 2, beginning with the search for the side of a square double a given square.

Original source material from seventeen mathematicians, with commentary by Stephen Hawking.

Short biographies of mathematicians with mathematical activities.

Aspects of classical Greek mathematics are compared with areas of Babylonian mathematics.

A collection of biographies of sixty mathematicians from the eighteenth century to the twentieth.

A history of the various algebraic structures that came together to give us "abstract algebra" by early in the twentieth century.

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