General histories

Berlinghoff, W. P., & Gouvêa, F. Q. Math through the ages: A gentle history for teachers and others [Expanded edition]. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, 2004.
Location: Morris Library ("on order")

Boyer, C. B., & Merzbach, U. C. A history of mathematics (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 1991.
Location: Morris Library (QA21 .B767 1991)

Eves, J. H. An introduction to the history of mathematics (6th ed.). Philadelphia : Saunders College Pub., c1990.
Location: Morris Library (QA21 .E8 1990)

Katz, V. J. (Ed.). Using history to teach mathematics: An international perspective. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, 2000.
Location: Morris Library (QA12 .U85 2000)

Katz, V. J. The history of mathematics (brief version). Boston: Pearson Addison Wesley, 2004.
Location: Morris Library ("on order")

Katz, V. J. A History of Mathematics: An Introduction. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Location: Morris Library (QA21 .K33 1993)

Tucker, M.A. Biographical and historial materials, Guide to Information Sources in Mathematics and Statistics. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref QA41.7 .T83 2004)

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences. 2 vols. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref QA21 .C645 1994)

This is the first comprehensive work to cover the principal developments and themes in the history and philosophy of mathematics from ancient times up to the twentieth century. One hundred seventy-six articles describe and analyze the variety of theories, proofs, techniques, and cultural and practical applications of mathematics. Also covers the history of higher education in mathematics and growth of institutions and organizations connected with the development of the field. Divided into twelve parts: mathematics in various ancient and non-Western cultures from antiquity up to medieval and Renaissance times and development in the main areas of mathematics.

Dictionary of Scientific Biography including Supplements I and II. 18 vols. New York, Scribner 1970-1990.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Q141 .D5)

A major source of reliable biographical information for mathematicians and scientists. Articles sketch the life and work of 1,019 mathematicians worldwide from antiquity to modern times. Appendixes: listing of mathematicians by branch, chronology, and index. A recent article about the Dictionary: Crease, J. " The last of its breed," Physics World, January 2008.

Encyclopaedia of Mathematics: An Updated and Annotated Translation of the Soviet "Mathematical Encyclopaedia" including Supplements I, II and II. 13 vols. Dordrecht; Boston: Reidel; Norwell, Mass.: Distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989-2001.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref QA5 .M3713 1989)

English-language translation (with editorial updates and annotations) of the Soviet Matematicheskaia Entsiklopedia. Includes surveys for nonspecialists, articles on results or problems, and definitions. This set is a reference work for all parts of mathematics. The over 7,000 articles are signed by mostly Russian authors and include AMS classification numbers and bibliographies with added current Western sources. The Supplements contain sixteen hundred new entries cover developments and topics not covered in the orginals set. Arranged alphabetically with detailed index. The most authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date mathematics encyclopedia in print.

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 8 vols. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons/Thomson Gale, c2008.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Q141 .N45 2008)

This is a new supplement to the Dictionary of Scientific Biography. It consists of 8 volumes. Nearly 500 of these are new articles about scientists who died after 1950 and thus were not included in the original Dictionary - or DSB; 75 articles are on figures from earlier periods not included in the DSB, including a substantial number of female scientific figures; 250 are supplementary or replacement articles giving recent research and interpretation. The coverage now includes psychology, anthropology, and to a limited extent some areas of sociology and economics. Browse the List of scientists and list of scientists by field - not linked to online articles.

Notable Mathematicians: From Ancient Times to the Present. Detroit: Gale, c1998.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref QA 28. N66 1998)

Alphabetical entries include a biographical essay written for the general reader, followed by a list of selected publications and further readings. Appendixes include a time line of important events in the history of mathematics, and a selected bibliography of books, periodicals, and Web sites of general interest. Indexes include fields of specialization, gender, nationality, and subject.

Journals

American Mathematical Monthly
This journal contains lively and expository mathematical articles, notes, and other features by the mathematical profession's most esteemed practitioners.

Archive for History of the Exact Sciences
Articles in this archive analyze the historical course of mathematical thought and the precise theory of nature. It is devoted mainly to mathematics and natural philosophy.

Convergence
An online magazine where mathematics, teaching and history interact. This magazine is sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America with the cooperation of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. It is a resource and forum for mathematics teachers who are interested in using mathematics history as a learning/ teaching tool.

Historia Mathematica
This journal publishes historical scholarship on mathematics and its development in all cultures and time periods. It includes studies on mathematicians and their work in historical context, on the histories of institutions and organizations supportive of the mathematical endeavor, on historiographical topics in the history of mathematics, and on the interrelations between mathematical ideas, science, and the broader culture.

Isis
Since its inception in 1912, Isis has featured scholarly articles, research notes and commentary on the history of science, medicine, and technology, and their cultural influences. Review essays and book reviews on new publications in the field are also included. It is the oldest (and most widely circulating) English-language journal in the field. The Current Bibliography (formerly the Cumulative Bibliography) of the history of science is published annually as a fifth volume of Isis. This is a bibliography of recent publications in the history of science and related fields, including books, book reviews, and journal articles.

Mathematics Magazine
This journal’s intended audience is teachers of collegiate mathematics and their students. One goal is to provide stimulating supplements for undergraduate mathematics courses, especially at the upper undergraduate level. Another goal is to inform and refresh the teachers of these courses by revealing new connections or giving new perspectives on history. Articles are written in a clear and lively expository style.

Mathematics Teacher
This is an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and is intended as a resource for teachers and teacher educators.

Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
This is an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and is intended as a resource for teachers and teacher educators. Note that the Library doesn't subscribe to Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, but articles can be requested using the library's interlibrary loan service. Browse the Cumulative Author and Subject Index - not linked to online articles.

Scripta Mathematica
The journal was established in 1932 and ceased publication in 1973. It was devoted to the philosophy, history, and expository treatment of mathematics. One goal of the articles in the journal was to make mathematics accessible to a broad public. Past issues available at the Library Annex: v.1(1932)-v.29(1973).

Databases

JSTOR
Location: Library Databases

Back runs of mathematical sciences journals; not current issues. JSTOR is an archive of important scholarly journals, offering researchers high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages. It now includes over 37,000 articles from The American Mathematical Monthly, from 1894 to 2004. The MAA web site ranks the top nine most frequently accessed American Mathematical Monthly articles in the database.

MathSciNet
Location: Library Databases

Consists of reviews and citations to the world’s research literature in mathematics, statistics, and related areas compiled from Mathematical reviews, and Current mathematical publications, 1940- present.

Web of Science  
Location: Library Databases

A multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. It can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.

Specialized histories

Aaboe, A. Episodes from the early history of mathematics. New York, L. W. Singer, c1964
Location: Morris Library (QA22 .A13)

Berggren, J. L. Episodes in the mathematics of medieval Islam. New York: Springer-Verlag, c1986.
Location: Morris Library (QA 27 .A67 B46 1986)

Bottazzini, U. The higher calculus: a history of real and complex analysis from Euler to Weierstrass. New York: Springer-Verlag, c1986.
Location: Morris Library (QA300 .B67 1986)

Boyer, C. History of the calculus and its conceptual development. New York: Dover 1959
Location: Morris Library (QA303 .B882 1959)

Edwards, C.H. The historical development of the calculus. New York: Springer-Verlag, c1979.
Location: Morris Library (QA303 .E224)

Heath, T.L. A history of Greek mathematics. 2 vols. Oxford, Clarendon, 1921.
Location: Morris Library (QA22 .H4)

Neugebauer, O. The exact sciences in antiquity. Providence, Brown University Press, 1957.
Location: Morris Library (QA22 .N36 1957)

Waerden, B.L van der. A history of algebra: from al-Khwarizmi to Emmy Noether. Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag, c1985.
Location: Morris Library (QA151 .W343 1985)

Weil, Andre. Number theory: an approach through history from Hammurapi to Legendre. Boston: Birkhäuser, c1984.
Location: Morris Library (QA241 .W3418 1984)

Web Resources

Professor Fred Rickey’s History of Mathematics Archive. No copyright given.
Location: Internet (http://www.math.usma.edu/people/rickey/hm/default.htm)

Mac-Tutor History of Mathematics Archive Authored and maintained by J. J. O’Connor and E. F. Robertson, 2004.
Location: Internet (http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/index.html)

This superb and actively developed site contains over 1,000 biographies, nearly 80 histories on various mathematics topics (from 650 B.C. to the twentieth century), a chronology of important dates, and extensive links to history of mathematics sources elsewhere on the Web. Biographies include a picture, a link to the birthplace map, links from the text to other related items in the MacTutor collection, and a list of references with links to those on the Web.

The History of Mathematics by David R. Wilkins (Trinity College, Dublin). No copyright given.
Location: Internet (http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/HistMath.html)

Large collection of Web links to history of mathematics sites. Has major full-text collections of works by Berkeley, Hamilton, Riemann, Boole, Cantor, and Newton. Also hosts the Web site, Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, with links to selected biographical articles from Ball's A Short Account of the History of Mathematics.

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