The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
Mathematics teachers, students, and other math fans and enthusiasts will absolutely love the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive ( MHMA ) maintained by the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of St. Andrews , Scotland (the third oldest university in the English speaking world, behind Oxford and Cambridge, founded in 1413). This comprehensive site allows users easy access to thousands of biographies of important mathematicians throughout the ages, informative articles on hundreds of math history topics, treatises on dozens of famous mathematical curves, fascinating time lines of mathematicians' lifetimes and key events in math history, a helpful glossary of mathematical terminology, indices of female mathematicians and math educational history, and links to other noteworthy math history sites. Math fans can spend many enjoyable and informative hours on the MHMA . The articles and other resources it contains combine rigor with accessi...