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THE STORY OF MATHEMATICS

Follow the story as it unfolds in this series of linked sections, like the chapters of a book. Read the human stories behind the innovations, and how they made – and sometimes destroyed – the men and women who devoted their lives to the Story of Mathematics.

  • Prehistoric Mathematics
  • Sumerian/Babylonian Mathematics
  • Egyptian Mathematics
  • Greek Mathematics
    • Pythagoras
    • Plato
  • Hellenistic Mathematics
    • Euclid
    • Archimedes
    • Diophantus
  • Roman Mathematics
  • Mayan Mathematics
  • Chinese Mathematics
  • Indian Mathematics
    • Brahmagupta
    • Madhava
  • Islamic Mathematics
    • Al-Khwarizmi
  • Medieval European Mathematics
    • Fibonacci
  • 16th Century Mathematics
    • Tartaglia, Cardano and Ferrari

  • 17th Century Mathematics
    • Descartes
    • Fermat
    • Pascal
    • Newton
    • Leibniz
  • 18th Century Mathematics
    • Bernoulli Brothers
    • Euler
  • 19th Century Mathematics
    • Galois
    • Gauss
    • Bolyai and Lobachevsky
    • Riemann
    • Boole
    • Cantor
    • Poincaré
  • 20th Century Mathematics
    • Hardy and Ramanujan
    • Russell and Whitehead
    • Hilbert
    • Gödel
    • Turing
    • Weil
    • Cohen
    • Robinson and Matiyasevich




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  • Math Lessons
  • Prehistoric Mathematics
  • Sumerian/Babylonian Mathematics
  • Egyptian Mathematics
  • Greek Mathematics
    • Pythagoras
    • Plato
  • Hellenistic Mathematics
    • Euclid
    • Archimedes
    • Diophantus
  • Roman Mathematics
  • Mayan Mathematics
  • Chinese Mathematics
  • Indian Mathematics
    • Brahmagupta
    • Madhava
  • Islamic Mathematics
    • Al-Khwarizmi
  • Medieval European Mathematics
    • Fibonacci
  • 16th Century Mathematics
    • Tartaglia, Cardano and Ferrari
  • 17th Century Mathematics
    • Descartes
    • Fermat
    • Pascal
    • Newton
    • Leibniz
  • 18th Century Mathematics
    • Bernoulli Brothers
    • Euler
  • 19th Century Mathematics
    • Galois
    • Gauss
    • Bolyai and Lobachevsky
    • Riemann
    • Boole
    • Cantor
    • Poincaré
  • 20th Century Mathematics
    • Hardy and Ramanujan
    • Russell and Whitehead
    • Hilbert
    • Godel
    • Turing
    • Weil
    • Cohen
    • Robinson and Matiyasevich

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