The
History of Mathematics
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/
The History of Mathematics web site created
by, David Wilkins of Trinity College, Dublin, concentrates on mathematicians
of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The site
has detailed information on George Berkeley, Sir William Rowan Hamilton,
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, George Boole, Georg Cantor and
Isaac Newton. Primary source material is included on the site. There
is, for example, the full text of George Boole's paper on the Calculus
of Logic and Hamilton's On Symbolic Geometry. Biographies of approximately
ninety seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians are available.
A list of links to other history of mathematics web sites is also
maintained.
Historical theme: Science
& technology
Geographical area:
Period: 17th
Century | 18th Century
| 19th Century
Resource type: Primary
sources
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