History of mathematics

See the article about Mathematics for a brief and incomplete outline of the history of mathematics. See Timeline of mathematics for a timeline of events in mathematics. See mathematician for a list of biographies of mathematicians.

Also see The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art for information about the development of mathematics in China.

External links:

• John J O'Connor and Edmund F Robertson: MacTutor History of Mathematics, http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/. Contains biographies, timelines and historical articles about mathematical concepts.
• Jeff Miller: Earliest uses of various mathematical symbols, http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathsym
• Jeff Miller: Earliest known uses of some of the words of mathematics, http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathword