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Euler Tercentenary Volumes
Two excellent volumes on Euler in honor of his three hundredth birthday
Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics
This book explores the history of mathematics from the perspective of the creative tension between common sense and the "impossible" as the author follows the discovery or invention of new concepts that have marked mathematical progress.
Arbelos
In Archimedes' Book of Lemmas (ca 250), he introduces a figure that, due to its shape, has historically been known as "the shoemaker's knife" or arbelos.
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Euler Tercentenary Year
2007 marks the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Leonhard Euler, the most prolific mathematician of all time. There are numerous events throughout the world celebrating this anniversary, many of which are listed here.
Abel on Elliptic Integrals: A Translation
A translation of one of the seminal papers in the field of elliptic integrals, but one that can be read by an undergraduate.
Euler Squares
An elementary introduction to Euler squares
Maya Cycles of Time
Explorations of the Mayan calendar
The Quadrature of the Circle and Hippocrates' Lunes
A study of some elements of Greek geometry, as part of a course for liberal arts undergraduates dealing with basic concepts of the calculus.
Portrait Gallery
A portrait gallery of mathematicians, mostly taken from the collection at the Dibner Library of the Smithsonian, with permission.
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Meetings & events dealing with the History of Mathematics
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
Republic, VII, 52.
Plato (ca 429-347 BC)