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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