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A collection of biographies of sixty mathematicians from the eighteenth century to the twentieth.

The history of the Poincare conjecture up to its recent proof by Grigori Perelman.

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The story of Nicolaus Mercator, music, and logarithms.
A brief introduction to the life of John Napier, along with an animation of calculations using Napier's bones.
An argument that the teaching of elementary integration should better reflect its historical development

A delightful survey of the history of trigonometry, along with discussions of its uses, both ancient and modern.

This is the title page to Rene Descartes' Treatise on Method, with its three famous essays on Dioptrics, Meteorology, and Geometry. The third essay contains Descartes' treatment of analytic geometry as well as his theory of equations and his rule for finding the normal to a given curve.
Information on the NCTM Fall, 2004 Eastern Regional meeting.

A biography of Hypatia in her times, which carefully distinguishes between the known facts of her life and the many speculations about her.

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