Textbooks

• Math Through the Ages, A Gentle History for Teachers and Others by William Berlinghof and Fernando Gouvea
• A History of Mathematics by Victor Katz
• Journey through Genius by William Dunham

Interesting Links

• Link to quipu pictures and information from the Smithsonian.
• Link to image 183 a 14th century Greek manuscript copy of the work Introductio Arithmeticae by Nicomachus, available via the Library of Congress.
• Link to pdf of Frederic Rosen’s 1831 translation of Al Khwarizmi’s Algebra
• Link to pdf of Thomas Heaths 1910 translation of Diophantus’ Arithmetica
• Link to Kevin Devlin’s article for the MAA about the Cattle of the Sun problem.
• Notes from Fri 24 Feb on Book I of Euclid’s Elements
• Video of Euclid’s proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
• Link to Euclid’s Elements
• 3Blue1Brown Video describing how ancient mathematicians determined the radius of the Earth, the distance between the Earth and the Moon, and the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
• Link to a picture of the palimpsest containing a copy of work by Archimedes.
• Notes for Mon 27 Feb
• Video of Brachistochrome
• Notes from Mon 20 Mar