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Problems from Another Time

Individual problems from throughout mathematics history, as well as articles that include problem sets for students.

... in medieval Sanskrit arithmetic texts and your classroom.
Geometry of altar construction in ancient India, with interactive illustrations
Enrich your classroom with historical approaches to solving ODEs
Exercises for William Dunham's classic text on its 25th anniversary
Module 1: Curve Drawing Then and Now Exercise 1.
Two thousand years of tangent lines from Apollonius through today
Module 1 introduces historical methods used to draw an ellipse.
Project to help computer science students understand partial correctness proof by studying the pioneering paper of Robert W. Floyd.

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