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More Links

Pythagoras & the Irrational

http://SunSITE.UBC.CA/LivingMathematics/V001N01/UBCExamples/Pythagoras/pythagoras.html

Zeno & the Infinite

http://pirate.shu.edu/~wachsmut/reals/history/zeno.html

I’ve had trouble trying to get on the above web site.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Germain.html

Alexander & Euclid

http://wso.williams.edu/~junterek/

Read Philip II, Macedonian Army, Alexander’s Greek conquests, Alexander in Persia, Sidetrack to Egypt, Alexander does Delhi, All good things must end.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Abel.html

Archimedes

: http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html

Read Siege of Syracuse & Livy’s account, Death of Archimedes (Livy & Plutarch), Tomb of Arch. (Plutarch & Cicero & Simmons)), Burning Mirrors, Golden Crown, Archimedes Screw, Spheres and Planetarium (Ignore orrery & armillary sphere), The Lever.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galois.html

Galois site.

Ptolemy and Chords I

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Cauchy.html

Ptolemy and Chords II

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Cantor.html

Astronomy & the End of the Greeks

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hypatia.html

Origins of Decimal

Arabic Mathematics

http://salam.muslimsonline.com/~azahoor/khawariz.html

A short biography of Al-Khawarizmi

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Noether_Emmy.html