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  Mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mathematics is often defined as the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change.
Nowadays, mathematics derives much inspiration from the natural sciences and it is not uncommon for new mathematics to be pioneered by physicists, although it may need to be recast into more rigorous language.
Nonetheless mathematics is often imagined to be (as far as its formal content) nothing but set theory in some axiomatization, in the sense that every mathematical statement or proof could be cast into formulas within set theory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mathematics   (2913 words)

  
 Mathematics - Simple English Wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure (how things are organized), space (where things are) and change.
Because mathematics looks at such general topics, it uses abstract (simpler, less specific) descriptions of objects to talk about things.
Mathematical prediction is the basis of hard science, which almost always uses equations to predict events in physics.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mathematics   (848 words)

  
 01: History and biography
The development of comparatively simple mathematics (through the calculus, for example) is now well documented, principally as part of the study of the development of scientific ideas in distinct human cultures through the 18th century.
There are electronic mailing lists in the History of Mathematics maintained by the Mathematical Association of America and the Historia Matematica list (a professional, closed forum).
A list of mathematicians whose photographs appear in the literature, and a pointer to citations.
www.math.niu.edu /~rusin/known-math/index/01-XX.html   (1394 words)

  
 Mathematics - Biocrawler definition:Mathematics - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space and change.
Mathematics is also used to refer to the insight gained by mathematicians by doing mathematics, also known as the body of mathematical knowledge.
This latter meaning of mathematics includes the mathematics used to do calculations and is an indispensable tool in the natural sciences and engineering.
www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Mathematics   (2632 words)

  
 Open Directory - Science: Math: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
History and Overview - Front for the Mathematics Arxiv of eprints section HO: biographies, philosophy of mathematics, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics.
History of Mathematics in India - Describes Indian mathematicians such as Aryabhatta - who modelled the solar system, Bhaskar, Varahamira, and others who made important contributions in the fields of trigonometry, algebra, and classical analysis.
Mathematics in Latvia throughout the Centuries - Covers the early mathematical development in the country, such as the use of geometrical symbols.
dmoz.org /Science/Math/History   (1046 words)

  
 Math History
The purpose of this site is to present a small portion of the history of mathematics through an investigation of some of the great problems that have inspired mathematicians throughout the ages.
The lists are organized chronologically (almost 50 distinct periods from 1700 BC to 1940) or you can access the data by region (Babylonia, Egypt, China, Greece, India, Arab sphere, Japan, and Europe).
In Mathematics, more than any other field of study, have we heard proclamations and statements similar to, 'The Negro is incapable of succeeding.' Ancient and present achievements contradict such statements.
www.cln.org /themes/math_history.html   (980 words)

  
 History of Mathematics Web Sites
As a complement to the MacTutor History, here is a wealth of further information on the history of mathematics, including timelines, chronologies, archives, links to other sites and more.
Rickey is a recognized leader in the study and teaching of the history of mathematics, and his pages are a valuable resource.
MAA History List and the Historia Matematica mailing list; each of these maintains a searchable archive.
homepages.bw.edu /~dcalvis/history.html   (656 words)

  
 Mathematics
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Mathematics since has been been much extended, and there has been a fruitful interaction between mathematics and science, to the benefit of both.
A guided tour through thee various branches of modern mathematics.
www.cooldictionary.com /words/Mathematics.wikipedia   (2781 words)

  
 Ancient and Classical Mathematics
We will be concerned with both the development of certain mathematical ideas and the roles mathematics has played in the historical cultures and societies we study.
That is, we will be interested in the mathematicians who created the mathematics, the teachers who communicated the mathematics, the students who learned the mathematics and the people who paid for it all.
History of Mathematics Archive contains brief biographies of many mathematicians and short topical articles on many subjects.
it.stlawu.edu /~dmelvill/323   (1015 words)

  
 Math Forum Discussions - math-history-list
Discussion on the history of mathematics, including announcements of meetings, new books and articles; discussion of the teaching of the history of math; and questions that you would like answered.
History of Eigen values,its application to physical problems history......
History of Eigen values,its application to physical problems and who is to
mathforum.org /kb/forum.jspa?forumID=193   (93 words)

  
 BSHM: WWW Resources
There is a separate education section covering abstracts of papers on the uses of history of mathematics in education, history of mathematics courses, and the history of mathematics education.
The List gives details of theses and dissertations currently in progress, or recently completed, in the history, philosophy and social studies of science, technology, medicine, mathematics, engineering and studies of mind, at academic institutions in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Researchers in mathematics education, teachers, curriculum developers, mathematicians, and historians of mathematics are members of the group.
www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk /bshm/resources.html   (4468 words)

  
 Mathematics
A "digital archive of the most important mathematical publications of the period 1868-1942 and a database based on the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik".
Lists tables of contents for over 6500 journals, in all areas of the sciences.
Lists recipients and includes brief desciption of work that led to awarding the prize.
www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/math   (2011 words)

  
 ipedia.com: List of lists of mathematical topics Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
List of formal language and literal string topics
List of harmonic analysis and representation theory topics]
List of terms relating to algorithms and data structures
www.ipedia.com /list_of_lists_of_mathematical_topics.html   (126 words)

  
 Mathematics Archives - Topics in Mathematics - History of Mathematics
al-Khwarizmi, Diophantus of Alexandria, Cardano, Bombelli, Viète, abu-Kamil, al-Karaji, Fibonacci, Maestro Benedetto, Bibliography, History
African mathematics, Native American mathematics, Math in European artifacts, Pacific Islander mathematics, African American mathematics, Latino mathematics, Asian mathematics, Middle Eastern mathematics, Mathematics and gender, Mathematics and economic class, Multicultural mathematics
Mathematical Problems - Lecture Delivered Before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900.
archives.math.utk.edu /topics/history.html   (719 words)

  
 Greek mathematics Index
Alphabetical list of mathematicians born in modern-day Greece
Alphabetical list of mathematicians born in modern-day Turkey
Alphabetical list of mathematicians born in modern-day Egypt
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Indexes/Greeks.html   (42 words)

  
 History of Mathematics: Chronology of Mathematicians
Note: there are also a chronological lists of mathematical works and mathematics for China, and chronological lists of mathematicians for the Arabic sphere, Europe, Greece, India, and Japan.
*MT: Mathematicians noted *MT have biographies in the Mathematical MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at the School of Mathematical and Compuational Sciences of the University of St Andrews.
*W: Mathematicians noted *W have biographies compiled by Richard S. Westfall, Professor Emeritus in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, and appear in theCatalogue of the Scientific Community, a collection of 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries.
aleph0.clarku.edu /~djoyce/mathhist/chronology.html   (693 words)

  
 Mathematical Resources on the Web
Much of this list is organized by protocol (World Wide Web, Gopher, FTP).
If you are looking for a specific item or site within these lists then you might find the string-searching capabilities of your Web viewer useful.
Material in this list has been gathered from most of the mathematical sites we've visited on the Web.
www.math.ufl.edu /math/math-web.html   (194 words)

  
 Math on the Web: Mathematics by Topics
Mathematics by Topic lists some topic keywords in the Table of Contents.
List of locations of the Archives of the newsgroup
This list is maintained by Robert Fourer (4er@iems.nwu.edu) and the Optimization Technology Center of Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory.
www.ams.org /mathweb/mi-mathbytopic.html   (1807 words)

  
 Mathematics Archives - Topics in Mathematics
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The following icons are used to indicate the minimum level of training expected for a reader of a significant portion (though not necessarily all nor even a majority portion) of the material located on the indicated WWW site:
If you have any comments and/or suggestions about these pages or the content of these pages, please write one of the authors: Earl Fife or Larry Husch.
archives.math.utk.edu /topics   (232 words)

  
 Mathematics Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This site was constructed for use with a California 7th grade general math class and contains basic curriculum and reference links, as well as a list of links specifically related to each topic in the curriculum, such as algebra, statistics and probability, geometry, etc. There's a matching Math 8 site.
This is a really extensive list of Science and Math links specifically designed with the educator in mind.
A great source for women interested in mathematics or computer science, but also includes areas such as physics, engineering, and women's issues.
www.educationindex.com /math   (1319 words)

  
 Amazon.com: History of Mathematics, Vol. 2 (Special Topics of Elementary Mathematics): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A History of Mathematics by Carl B. Boyer
If you are interested in the developement of mathematics as well as read some interesting narractive on those important mathematicans, I would recommend Carl B. Boyer and et's A History of Mathematics.
This is the one of the best references in Mathematics History that I have found.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486204308?v=glance   (731 words)

  
 Mathematical Resources: History of Mathematics - Mathematics (Math Links by Bruno Kevius)
History of Mathematics archive University of St Andrews The MacTutor
History of Mathematics - Table of Contents by Brent Byars
History of Mathematics by Toni Carroll, Siena Heights College
mathres.kevius.com /history.html   (371 words)

  
 Links to other Mathematics pages
A comprehensive encyclopedia of Mathematics (and other subjects) and collection of biographies.
A History of Sciences related to Astronomy and references to astronomers
This centre organises regular conferences on the history of mathematics.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/External/external_links.html   (538 words)

  
 Reading List on History of Special Topics in Mathematics
Ulrich Libbrecht, Chinese Mathematics in the Thirteenth Century: The Shu-shu chiu-chang of Ch'in Chiu-shao (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1973)
Edward Grant and John E. Murdoch, eds., Mathematics and Its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Essays in honor of Marshall Clagett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
Boris Rosenfeld, A History of Non-Euclidean Geometry: Evolution of the Concept of a Geometric Space, trans.
www.dean.usma.edu /math/people/rickey/hm/mini/bib-katz.html   (618 words)

  
 Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Mathematics Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
...a directory of mathematics sites chosen for the university level; provides great background information for teachers and secondary students
...a comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended for students, educators, math enthusiasts, and researchers
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
school.discovery.com /schrockguide/math.html   (493 words)

  
 PSU Math - Related Topic Sites
GRAPHNET - a graph theory LISTSERV e-mailing list
On-line books in the mathematical sciences and statistics
Coalition of Automated Mathematics and Science Education Databases
www.math.psu.edu /MathLists/Related.html   (50 words)

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