History of Mathematics SIGMAA Home Page
updated September 1, 2010
August 2010 HOMSIGMAA Newsletter
NEW - Israel Kleiner's Reference List
After some urging, Prof. Kleiner has agreed to share his excellent private reference list with the HOMSIGMAA community. He writes that "the list is not etched in stone, and that I'd be happy to have suggestions for updating the list and pointing out errors". Added August 8, 2010- Jennifer L. Nielsen, University of Missouri – Kansas City "The Heart is a Dust Board: Abu’l Wafa Al-Buzjani, Dissection, Construction, and the Dialog Between Art and Mathematics in Medieval Islamic Culture"
- Palmer Rampell, Harvard University, (composed at Phillips Academy in the 12th grade) , "The Use of Similarity in Old Babylonian Mathematics"
- Stefanie Streck, Pacifc Lutheran University, "The Fermat Problem"
Upcoming History of Mathematics Events
MAA Short Course at the JMM, Jan 11th and 12th: Exploring the Great Books of Mathematics
Organizers: Amy Shell-Gellasch and Glen Van Brummelen
Suggested readings on Ptolemy: Alexander Jones, Ptolemy's Mathematical Models and their Meaning, in Mathematics and the Historian's Craft (eds. Glen Van Brummelen and Michael Kinyon), Springer, 2005, pp. 23-42. Abstracts for Great Books of Mathematics Short Course