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The earliest known example of a printed book on arithmetic, dates to 1478. Also known as the Art of Calculation.

A lively history of number systems and number theory from earliest times up to the notion of "infinity".

The work of ten scientists who thought deeply about patterns.

The story of Nicolaus Mercator, music, and logarithms.

One hundred men besieged in a castle, have sufficient food to allow each one bread to the weight of 14 lot a day for ten months.

Page 10: Courant through D'Ambrosio

A collection of articles on using the history of mathematics of the past 200 years in the undergraduate classroom.

This is a page from an early printed edition of the Arithmetica of Jordanus de Nemore (early 13th century).

Archimedes' work, The Method, explained, along with many other important ideas of the great Greek geometer.

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