Readings

Lost Math

Ishango bone page

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_zaire-uganda.html

Babylonian Math

http://www.ed.psu.edu/k-12/edpgs/su96/meso/mesopotamia.html#terms

A Babylonian web site intended for school children.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Descartes.html

Descartes web site.

Babylonian Problems

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Pascal/RouseBall/RB_Pascal.html

Pascal Web site

http://chemistry.csudh.edu/oliver/smt310-handouts/babylon.htm

Cuneiform site

Babylonian Tables

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

Egyptian Algebra

Color map of Egypt: http://www.library.nwu.edu/class/history/B94/empircol.gif

Egyptian irrigation: http://www.library.nwu.edu/class/history/B94/irrigata.gif

http://guardians.net/egypt/

General Egypt background:

http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Newton.html

Early Greece & Thales

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

Leibniz bio.

http://www.vacation.net.gr/p/history.html

Read Geometric-Archaic Age, Athens & Solon, Sparta, Persian Wars and Classical Age.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Kathleen/thales.html

Pythagoras & Magic

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

http://www.shu.edu/academic/arts_sci/Undergraduate/math_cs/sites/math/reals/history/euler.html