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	Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics URL: http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathword.html ODP description: Shows who coined a wide variety of commonly used terms. Organized by first letter.
	Earliest Uses of Mathematical Symbols URL: http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathsym.html ODP description: Discusses first known appearances of common expressions, such as operations, variables and trigonometric functions. Page title: Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols
	Mesopotamian Mathematics - 8000 B.C. to 364 A.D. URL: http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/index.html ODP description: Discusses the development of numbers, addition tables, exercise problems and solutions for quadratic equations in one of oldest known civilizations. Page title: Mesopotamian Mathematics Page description: The mathematics of ancient Mesopotamia, from Sumer to Babylon
	History of Mathematics. URL: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/ ODP description: Includes classic texts by Hilbert and Euclid (a Java enhanced version of the Elements) a chronology, and links. Page title: History of Mathematics Home Page
	Ancient Geometry and Insights into Math History URL: http://members.aol.com/bbyars1/contents.html ODP description: Topics include background in Babylonian, Euclid, Al'Khwarizmi, pi, and trigonometry. Also has recreations and java chat. Page title: History of Mathematics - Table of Contents
	Math History Timeline - Pre-historic and Ancient Times URL: http://lahabra.seniorhigh.net/pages/teachers/pages/math/timeline/MpreAndAncient.html ODP description: La Hababra high school page includes dates for important developments in the field of mathematics that occurred from approximately 1,000,000 B.C. to 500 A.D. Also, has an accompanying timeline for general historic events. Page title: Math History - Pre-historic and Ancient Times
	Washington Post: The Search for Infinity URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/mysteryaleph.htm ODP description: Discusses the development of the concept of infinity from the early Greeks of the fifth to the second century B.C. Covers the important findings of Zenos, the Pythagorean school, Eudoxus and Archimedes. Page title: Washingtonpost.com: The Mystery Of The Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
	Green Lion Press URL: http://www.greenlion.com/ ODP description: Independent book publisher specializing in history of mathematics and history of science. Includes information on ordering, books available, and how to contact them. Page title: Green Lion Press home page Page description: Green Lion Press's home page. Our mission: providing access to sources in history of science. Now available: Newton's Principia: The Central Argument, by Dana Densmore. Titles by Johannes Kepler, James Clerk Maxwell, Aristotle, etc., forthcoming.
	The History of the Calculus and the Development of Computer Algebra Systems URL: http://www.math.wpi.edu/IQP/BVCalcHist/calctoc.html ODP description: Discusses development of integral and derivative calculus from the 17th century. Features contributions by key western mathematicians. Includes examples of selected problems and how they were originally solved in earlier times. Also, covers the historic background to computer algebraic systems. Page title: The History of the Calculus and the Development of Computer Algebra Systmes
	Euclid and His Heritage URL: http://www.claymath.org/euclid/ ODP description: A conference on the occasion of the publication, for the first time, of a complete digital edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of Euclid's Elements. St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK; 7--8 October 2005. Page title: Euclid and His Heritage: Conference at Oxford University
	Historia Mathematica URL: http://authors.elsevier.com/JournalDetail.html?PubID=622841 ODP description: Elsevier journal about early mathematical discoveries. Includes table of contents and abstracts. Page title: Elsevier.com
	Renaissance Mathematics URL: http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/projects/math.html ODP description: Discusses the technological, commercial and political reasons for the increase in mathematical development during this period. Page title: E-Ren: Student Projects
	MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive URL: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/ ODP description: Topics are presented by topic areas, date, or mathematicians. Includes timeline and website search engine. Page title: MacTutor History of Mathematics Page description: Biographies of mathematicians
	The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s URL: http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/mathoral/math.html ODP description: An oral history project with supporting on-line documents and links. Page title: The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s: An Oral History Project
	History of Mathematics: China URL: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/china.html ODP description: An overview. Includes a chronology of mathematicians and mathematical works, online references and a bibliography
	Mechanical Aids to Computation and the Development of Algorithms URL: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ped/teachadmin/histsci/htmlform/lect2.html ODP description: Article summarizing and illustrating early methods of counting and representing of numbers.
	Galois Translation Project (GTP) URL: http://www.galois-group.net/gtp/ ODP description: This Site contains original correspondence, official documents and school reports of the mathematician Evariste Galois. This site provides a platform to translate these documents. Page title: Galois Translation Directory, Main Page description: Project to translate Evariste Galois writings and texts concerning him into English, German, Italian and Spanish.
	Roman Numerals and Roman Dates URL: http://www.wilkiecollins.demon.co.uk/roman/front.htm ODP description: Includes conversion tables, historical background and a demonstration on how to express the year 1999 in Roman numerals. Page title: Roman redirect
	Ancient Math Papers Restored URL: http://plus.maths.org/issue14/news/papyri/ ODP description: Thanks to new imaging technology, part of the remains of a private library, owned by Roman statesman and Julius Caesar's father-in-law, may now be read. These papers were original discovered in 1752 in the town of Herculaneum. Page title: Ancient maths recovered Page description: Plus Online Maths Magazine: News Story
	Original Documents on the History of Calculators URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/1404/ ODP description: Contains HTML versions of some original documents related to the history of calculators. Page description: HTML versions of original documents on the history of calculators