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Renaissance Mathematics
http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/projects/math.html
Discusses the technological, commercial and political reasons for the increase in mathematical development during this period.

Roman Numerals and Roman Dates
http://www.wilkiecollins.demon.co.uk/roman/front.htm
Includes conversion tables, historical background and a demonstration on how to express the year 1999 in Roman Numerals.

Sangaku
http://sangaku.info/
Japanese votive tablets featuring mathematical problems. Examples with pictures and further resources.

Sketches of a History of Hypercomplex Numbers
http://history.hyperjeff.net/hypercomplex.html
Detailed timeline of the development of hypercomplex numbers, from early discoveries of complex numbers to modern developments. Includes links to biographies and complete bibliography.

Symbol, Form and Number in Ancient Egypt
http://www.seshat.ch/
Includes math examples from the Rhind papyrus and Babylonian tablets. Also, discusses early Egyptian mythology.

The Euler 2004 Conference
http://home.adelphi.edu/~bradley/EulerSociety/home.html
Portsmouth, RI, USA; 8--11 August 2004.

The History of the Calculus and the Development of Computer Algebra Systems
http://www.math.wpi.edu/IQP/BVCalcHist/calctoc.html
Discusses development of integral and derivative calculus from the 17th century. Features contributions by key western civilization mathematicians. Includes examples of selected problems and how they were originally solved in earlier times. Also, covers the historic background to computer algebraic systems.

The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s
http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/mathoral/math.html
An oral history project with supporting on-line documents and links.

Twenty-Five Years with Nicolas Bourbaki
http://www.ega-math.narod.ru/Bbaki/Bourb3.htm
Article by Armand Borel from a lecture at Bochum in September 1996 in honour of R.Remmert.

Vatican Exhibit: Ancient Mathematics
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/d-mathematics/Greek_math.html
Library of Congress. Includes articles and original document images of early Greek contributions to the field.

Washington Post: The Search for Infinity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/mysteryaleph.htm
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.

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
http://www.zerothebook.com
A concise and appealing look at the strangest number in the universe. By Charles Seife.

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