Critics Corner

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

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

A brief version of the author's well-known history of mathematics text.

This textbook seamlessly combines the history of non-Euclidean geometry with the mathematical ideas.

This website contains a complete version of Euclid's Elements, with all the proofs.

Review of Bertram's text on the history of Greek science.

An overly ambitious textbook on the history of mathematics.

A biography of Arthur Cayley, the outstanding mathematician of Victorian Britain.

Problems taken from Chinese sources

A collection of short pieces detailing how Euler solved a particular mathematics problem.

A collection of sixteen posters of contributors to calculus, with brief biographical sketches.

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