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Critics Corner

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

A Contextual History of Mathematics
An overly ambitious textbook on the history of mathematics.
Pioneers in Mathematics
A five-volume set of biographies of mathematicians from ancient times to the twentieth century, aimed at secondary students.
Euler: The Master of Us All
A small selection of Euler's works, explained by a master expositor.
The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe
The history of the Poincare conjecture up to its recent proof by Grigori Perelman.
Colorful Characters of Mathematics
Whimsical posters of fifteen mathematicians with brief biographies.
A History of Abstract Algebra
A history of the various algebraic structures that came together to give us "abstract algebra" by early in the twentieth century.
Fibonacci's Liber Abaci
A translation of one of the earliest European mathematical texts to use the Hindu-Arabic number system.
Discovering the Beauty of Science
A math history class visits the 'Beautiful Science' exhibit at the Huntington Library in Southern California.
Kepler's Conjecture
A survey of the attempts to prove Kepler's conjecture over the past 400 years.
Review of L'algebre au temps de Babylone: Quand les mathematiques s'ecrivaient sur de l'argile
[Translation of title: Algebra in the Time of Babylon. When Mathematics Were Written on Clay.] A thorough review of Jens Hoyrup's revision, expansion, and French translation of his own 1998 book for Danish high-school students.

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