The Story of Mathematics

• Prehistoric Mathematics
• Sumerian/Babylonian Mathematics
• Egyptian Mathematics
• Greek Mathematics
  • Pythagoras
  • Plato
• Hellenistic Mathematics
  • Euclid
  • Archimedes
  • Diophantus
• Roman Mathematics
• Mayan Mathematics
• Chinese Mathematics
• Indian Mathematics
  • Brahmagupta
  • Madhava
• Islamic Mathematics
  • Al-Khwarizmi
• Medieval European Mathematics
  • Fibonacci
• 16th Century Mathematics
  • Tartaglia, Cardano and Ferrari
• 17th Century Mathematics
  • Descartes
  • Fermat
  • Pascal
  • Newton
  • Leibniz
• 18th Century Mathematics
  • Bernoulli Brothers
  • Euler
• 19th Century Mathematics
  • Galois
  • Gauss
  • Bolyai and Lobachevsky
  • Riemann
  • Boole
  • Cantor
  • Poincaré
• 20th Century Mathematics
  • Hardy and Ramanujan
  • Russell and Whitehead
  • Hilbert
  • Gödel
  • Turing
  • Weil
  • Cohen
  • Robinson and Matiyasevich

SOURCES

Many different sources and references were used in the creation of this website, too many to mention. Among the most useful were:

• Wikipedia - History of Mathematics
• MacTutor History of Mathematics Archives
• Mathematics Development (ThinkQuest)
• Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics
• History of Mathematics (About.com)
• Mathematical Chronology (University of St. Andrews)
• Cut the Knot Math Glossary
• University of Cambridge Maths Thesaurus
• Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols
• Greatest Mathematicians of All Time
• A Complete History of Calculation
• The Basics of Philosophy
• YouTube
• Case Study Hub
• The Story of Maths (BBC TV series)
• The Music of The Primes (BBC TV series)
• Dangerous Knowledge (BBC TV series)
• The Book of Numbers (book by Peter Bentley, Firefly Books, 2008)
• Here's Looking at Euclid (book by Alex Bellos, Free Press, 2010)
• Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2003