History of Mathematics Teacher Resources

Here you will find a brief biography of over 50 famous mathematicians.

Short biography of famous female mathematicians.

The University of St. Andrews publishes this biography of Bacon, which includes links to quotations and images of Bacon and to related information.

An exhaustive biographical account of Johannes Kepler. Describes at length his upbringing, childhood, education, personality and scientific endeavors. Focus is on his development of a cosmological model and the laws of planetary motion.

A fairly short biographical sketch of Willebrord Snell (1591-1626 CE). Discusses his upbringing, education and professional life.

This site, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, allows you to zoom in/out and add evolutes, involutes, etc.

This site, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, allows you to zoom in/out and add evolutes, involutes, etc.

Zoom in and out, and add evolutes, involutes, etc.

This site from the University of St. Andrews allows you to zoom in/out and add evolutes, involutes, etc.

This site presents a brief history of ancient Egyptian mathematics.

From the University of St. Andrews MacTutor History of Mathematics Biographies comes this detailed life of Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752 CE), 18th century mathematician credited with "Cramer's Rule," though "Cramer was certainly not the...