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Critics Corner

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

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.
The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss
A biography of Gauss designed for high school students.
Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age
A biography of Arthur Cayley, the outstanding mathematician of Victorian Britain.
The Ambitious Horse
Problems taken from Chinese sources
A History of Mathematics
A solid history of mathematics text that any instructor of a history course should consider.
Great Ideas of Mathematics
A set of four posters dealing with the Pythagorean Theorem, infinity, prime numbers, and the history of pi.
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
There is much to see in this museum related to the history of mathematics.
Everything and More
A survey of concepts of infinite sets over the centuries.

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