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Name: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St. Andrews General Information
Home Page URL: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/
Brief Description: Part of the Mathematical MacTutor system developed at the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences of the University of St Andrews for learning and experimenting with mathematics. Contains the biographies of more than 1000 mathematicians, about 200 of them fairly detailed and most accompanied by pictures of the mathematicians themselves. Also a series of math history articles on the development of mathematical ideas cross-referenced to the biographies. The archive contains a Birthplace Map and a collection of other good web sources of information concerning the history of mathematics.
Stated purpose:
Sponsoring/Funding Institution: This History of Mathematics archive is part of the Mathematical MacTutor system developed at the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St Andrews for learning and experimenting with mathematics.
Persons Involved: John J. O'Connor, joc@st-andrews.ac.uk and Edmund F Robertson, efr@st-andrews.ac.uk
Groups and levels they aim to serve: Anyone interested in math history.
Highlights...
Here are the areas of the site that are most extensive:
- You can access the long biographies by either an Alphabetical Index or a Chronological Index
- Short biographies are grouped by first letters of the name: Short Biographies. About 300 of these include pictures.
- There's a regular and a Simple searcher.
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