THE STORY OF MATHEMATICS

Follow the story as it unfolds in this series of linked sections, like the chapters of a book. Read the human stories behind the innovations, and how they made - and sometimes destroyed - the men and women who devoted their lives to the Story of Mathematics.

Prehistoric Mathematics Sumerian/Babylonian Mathematics Egyptian Mathematics Greek Mathematics Pythagoras Plato Hellenistic Mathematics Euclid Archimedes Diophantus Roman Mathematics Mayan Mathematics Chinese Mathematics Indian Mathematics Brahmagupta Madhava Medieval European Mathematics Fibonacci 16th Century Mathematics Tartaglia, Cardano and Ferrari

17th Century Mathematics Descartes Fermat Pascal Newton Leibniz 18th Century Mathematics Bernoulli Brothers Euler 19th Century Mathematics Galois Gauss Bolyai and Lobachevsky Riemann Boole Cantor Poincaré 20th Century Mathematics Hardy and Ramanujan Russell and Whitehead Hilbert Gödel Turing Weil Cohen Robinson and Matiyasevich