History of Mathematics

A Basic Bibliography

SURVEYS

  1. Boyer, Carl, A History of Mathematics, revised by Uta C. Merzbach, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1989
  2. Burton, David M., The History of Mathematics: An Introduction, 3rd ed., Dubuque, IA : Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1995
  3. Cooke, Roger, The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course, Second Edition, Wiley-Interscience, 2005.
  4. Eves, Howard, An Introduction to the History of Mathematics, 6th edition, Philadelphia: Saunders College Publishing, 1988
  5. Eves, Howard, Great Moments in Mathematics (after 1650), Washington: Mathematical Association of America, 1981
  6. Eves, Howard, Great Moments in Mathematics (before 1650), Washington: Mathematical Association of America, 1980
  7. Grattan-Guinness, I., Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, London and New York: Routledge, 1994
  8. Katz, Victor, A History of Mathematics: An Introduction, second edition,   Addison-Wesley, 1998
  9. Kline, Morris, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972
  10. Historical Topics for the Mathematics Classroom, Washington: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1969
  11. Rowe, David and John McCleary, eds., The History of Modern Mathematics, 2 vols. Academic Press, 1989
  12. Struik, Dirk J., A Concise History of Mathematics, New York: Dover Publications,

SOURCE MATERIALS

  1. Birkhoff, Garrett, ed., A Soucrebook in Classical Analysis, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973
  2. Calinger, Ronald, Classics in Mathematics, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995
  3. Cohen, M. R. and I. E. Drabkin, A Source Book in Greek Science, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1948
  4. Dedekind, Richard, Essays on the Theory of Numbers, trans. by W. W. Beman, New York: Dover Publications, 1954
  5. Descartes, Rene, The Geometry}, trans. by David Eugene Smith and Marcia L. Latham, New York: Dover Publications, 1954
  6. Fauvel, John and Jeremy Gray, ed. The History of Mathematics: A Reader, London: Macmillan Press, 1987
  7. Hutchins, Robert Maynard, ed., Great Books of the Western World, Chicago: Encyclopedia Brittanica, Inc., 1952
  8. Muller, Johann (Regiomantanus), On Triangles, trans. with introduction and notes by Banabas Hughes, O.F.M., Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967
  9. Newman, James R., ed. The World of Mathematics, 4 vols., New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956
  10. Papyrus Rhind, trans by A. B. Chace, Buffalo: Mathematical Association of America, 1929, reissued by University Microfilms
  11. Pisano, Leonardo (Fibonacci), The Book of Squares, annotated translation by L. E. Sigler, Academic Press, 1987
  12. Smith, David Eugene, ed., A Source Book in Mathematics, 2 vols., New York: Dover Publications,1959
  13. Struik, Dirk J., A Source Book in Mathematics, 1200--1800, Princeton: Princeton University Press,1986

In addition to these collections many source materials containing the work of individual mathematicians can be found listed under that mathematician's name.

RESEARCH AIDS

  1. Dauben, Joseph, The History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present: A Selective Bibliography, Bibliographies of the History of Science and Technology, New York: Garland, 1984
  2. Gillespie, Charles Coulton, ed., Dictionary of Scientific Biography}, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970--1980
  3. May, Kenneth O., Bibliography and Research Manual for the History of Mathematics, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973
  4. ISIS Critical Bibliography, issued annually as the December issue of the journal ISIS
  5. Neu, John, ed. ISIS Cumulative Bibliography, 1966--1975, London: Mansell, 1980
  6. Whitrow, Magda, ed., ISIS Cumulative Bibliography: A bibliography of the history of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies 1--90, 1913--65, London: Mansell, 1971
  7. MathSciNet, the online version of Mathematical Reviews, issued monthly by the American Mathematical Society

JOURNALS

  1. American Mathematical Monthly has some historical articles
  2. Archive for History of Exact Sciences
  3. Historia Mathematica
  4. ISIS, a general journal for history of science
  5. The Mathematical Intelligencer
  6. The Mathematics Teacher, for high school math teachers, at one time had a history of math column
  7. Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
  8. Scripta Mathematica. Early issues were devoted to history of math

There are many journals for mathematics, mathematics education, or history of science that sometimes contain articles on history of mathematics.