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Links on the History of Mathematics
Discussion fori and dynamic pages
- Math-History list
- The Math Forum: Historia-Matematica Archive
- The Mersenne list
- Hugin & Munin
- Mathematicians who were born or died on this day
Libraries and archives
- BIBSYS --- Norwegian inter-university library system.
- Kristiansand Folkebibliotek and their search engine.
- EBSCOhost
- University of Utrecht, Aleph
- Picarta - Dutch inter-library loan
- Statsbiblioteket, Aarhus.
- Libraries at the Science Faculty, University of Aarhus: Steno, IMF.
- Bibliotek.dk - research libraries in Denmark.
- Danmarks Natur- og Lægevidenskabelige Bibliotek (UB2), København and the search engine Cosmos
- Biblioteket for Matematik og Operationsanalyse, Københavns Universitet
- Det kongelige Bibliotek, København og søgemaskinen REX. Har blandt andet et stort brevarkiv i håndskriftsafdelingen.
- Rigsarkivet, København
- Danmarks Nationale Privatarkivdatabase
- Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo
- Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo, Håndskriftsamlingen, og dennes søgemaskine, Hanske.
- Arkivet Institut for Matematiske Fag, Københavns Universitet, and Theseus - the archive directory of Danish mathematicians.
- Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, Stockholm, Sweden (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
- Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden
- Hovedbiblioteket, Århus
- The British Library
- Videnskabernes Selskab, København
- Library of Congress Online Catalogue
- COPAC - 24 British research libraries + British Library + National Library of Scotland.
Bibliographic search engines and material
To access some of these servers you must use a computer on the University of Aarhus campus or have a similar agreement with the resource providers.- MathSciNet mathematical reviews, Search@AMS, Search@Bielefeld.
- JFM (Jahrbuch für Mathematik) database 1868-1942
- Le répertoire bibliographique des sciences mathématiques (1894-1912)
- Eureka - ISIS/HSS database
- ResearchIndex (the NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library)
- Steven W. Rockey's bibliography of collected works and correspondances of mathematicians @ Cornell
- Subito - German libraries
- NORART: Norske tidsskriftsartikler
- Catalogue collectif de France - Localisation de documents
- Deutsche Nationalbibliographie
- LIBRIS: det nationella biblioteksdatasystemet (Sweden): Kvinnsam
Biographical resources
- Index of biographies at St. Andrews
- W. W. Rouse Ball on prominent mathematicians of the 17th and 18th centuries
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- Perpetual secretaries at the Academie des Sciences / Institut de France
- Picture Index. Helps you locate pictures of mathematicians in books etc.
- Images of mathematicians on stamps
- xrefer reference engine
- K. G. J. Jacobi
- Virtuelles Museum zur Geschichte der Mathematik in Wittenberg und Halle
- Polytech Photos at DTU
- De Store Matematiske Mestre holds - besides links to St. Andrews - PDF versions of chapters of the Danish translation of E. T. Bell's Men of Mathematics.
- The Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ADB/NDB - Allgemeine/Neue Deutsche Biographie
Online source material
- Bibliotèque nationale de France. Gallica-project with online 19th century books.
- University of Michigan, Historical Mathematics Collection
- Göttingen Digitalisierungs-Zentrum
- Cornell University digital library
- Acta Mathematica online full text - beware that the indicated connection between volume numbers and years of publication is wrong. Also beware that prelims are not always linked.
- History of Mathematics Archive at Trinity College, Dublin. Holds dvi-files of works by f.x. Hamilton, Riemann, Newton, etc.
- Projekt Gutenberg - DE
- The Perseus Digital Library
- Euclid's Elements online.
- Digital library at the University of Pennsylvania
- Some 18th century British journals in science (Philosophical Transactions, Gentleman's Magazine, etc.)
- Leibniz archive at NLB Hannover
- Digital Mathematics Library - a compilation similar to (but bigger than) this one. Also contains methodological discussions on digital libraries.
- DIEPER project of Austrian periodicals, including Monatshefte für Mathematik (1890-1918) and Sitzungsberichte d. kaiserl. Akademie d. Wissenschaften (Mat.-Nat. Classe), an Austrian National Encyclopedia (1830s) and other interesting things.
- Science in the 19th century periodical indexing project (including Punch and many others).
Journals
- Historia Mathematica Editors' page and Science Direct online issues (now all issues).
- Isis, journal of the History of Science Society.
- JSTOR including online versions of (older) issues of journals from the AMS, Amer. Math. Monthly, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, etc.
- Science Direct online library (formerly Ideal library) including online versions of new issues of Historia Mathematica, History of European Ideas.
- Journals from the AMS including newest issues.
- Archive for History of Exact Sciences online versions (now all issues).
- Mathematische Semesterberichte. Table of contents only.
- NTM: International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine
- Scientific American
- Philosophia mathematica. Journal homepage, ToCs and abstracts.
- Historisk Tidsskrift
- Centaurus
- NORMAT: Nordisk Matematisk Tidsskrift
- ARR: Idéhistorisk Tidsskrift from Norway.
- Semikolon; Tidsskrift for studerende ved Idéhistorie, semiotik og filosofi ved Aarhus Universitet.
- Front for the Mathematics ArXiv - History and Overview.
- 1066 - Tidsskrift for Historie
- Den jyske Historiker
- KVANT - Tidsskrift for Fysik og Astronomi
- The Muse Project journals
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science - series A (via ScienceDirect)
- Science History Publications Ltd., publishers of the journal History of Science (ToC only).
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Institutions
Insitutions relating to the history of mathematics/history of science/mathematics itself:- History and Philosophy of Science Division, Leeds, UK
- University of Minnesota, Program in the History of Science & Technology
- Turnbull WWW server
- Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto
- History of Mathematics section of the DMV
- Geschichte der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Universität Mainz
- History of Science Society
- Selskabet for de Eksakte Videnskabers Historie (SEVH), København
- Centre for the History of the Mathematical Sciences, Open University
Networks and conferences
- International Commission on the History of Mathematics (ICHM)
- Division of History of Science (DHS) of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS)
- The Danish Network for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics Sponsored by the Danish Natural Science Research Council
- Sydskandinavisk Konsortium for Videnskabsforskning
- The British Society for the History of Mathematics
- The British Society for the History of Science
- The Danish Mathematical Society, in Danish: Dansk matematisk Forening.
- EMIS, The European Mathematical Information Service has good links to online libraries and news of European mathematics.
- World Mathematical Year 2000 and the Abel Bicentennial 2002 in Norway.
- History of Science Society
- History of Astronomy
- History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America (HoMSIGMAA)
- STEP - Science and Technology at the European Periphery
- Forum for Universitetshistorie, Oslo
- Idéhistoriska Föreningens vid Stockholms universitet
- PHIS - The Danish Research School in Philosophy, History of Ideas, and History of Science
- CIRKLEN - an association for teachers of mathematics at all levels; meetings in Århus.
- Dansk Center for Naturvidenskabsdidaktik
Novembertagungen
- The 15th Novembertagung took place in Utrecht (NL), November 25 to 28, 2004.
- The 16th Novembertagung took place in Paris (F), November 3 to 6, 2005.
- The 17th Novembertagung took place in Edinburgh (UK), November 3-5, 2006.
- The 18th Novembertagung took place in Bonn (D), November 1-4, 2007.
- The 19th Novembertagung took place in Holbæk (DK), November 5-9, 2008. I am, again, one of the organizers.
- The 20th Novembertagung took place in Twente (NL), November 4-8, 2009.
- The 21st Novembertagung will take place in Mainz (D), November 3-7, 2010.
Online bookstores and booksearchers
- Amazon.com bookstore: History of Mathematics items.
- Antiquarian books in Scandinavia
- Bibliofind
- Blake's Books
- BookFinder.Com
- Periodicals and Journals reprints
- Tracery out-of-print books
- Antiquariat G. Renner
- L'Ex-Libris - French used books.
- Saxo - bøger på nettet
- Abebooks.com. Comprehensive but expensive out-of-print books
- Alibris.com
- Bol.uk.com
Formidling af og didaktik i matematik (og naturvidenskab)
- Besøgsservice, Naturvidenskabelig Fakultet, Aarhus Universitet
- Dansk naturvidenskabsformidling. Se også www.natfag.dk.
- DR Orbitalen
- Matematik og naturvidenskab i verdensklasse.
- Kompetancer og Matematiklæring
- Evitek: fagets videnskabsteori - det nye filosofikum
- Aktuel Naturvidenskab
History and Philosophy of Science
- Internet for History and Philosophy of Science
- HoPoS: The History of Philosophy of Science working group
- The Window: Philosophy on the internet
- Kant on the Web
Other
- Sokal's paper: Transgressing the Boundaries.
- Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols (and Words) Maintained by Jeff Miller.
- Encyclopedia Britannica on the history of mathematics
- Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics. Sponsored by Wolfram Research.
- MathArchives (Topics in Mathematics): History of Mathematics