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The manuscripts of Timbuktu
Ebooks:
Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
Greek Mathematical Works
Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture
Archimedes and the Roman Imagination
Ludic Proof: Greek mathematics and the Alexandrian aesthetic
A New History of Greek Mathematics
Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Greek mathematics (MacTutor)
Greek Mathematics and its Modern Heirs
A short history of Greek mathematics (e-book)
Culture and Math: the Greeks (DVD)
Science and mathematics in ancient Greek culture (print book)
The Measurers
Mathematics (Victorian Web)
Ebooks:
Signs of the Inka Khipu: binary coding in the Andean knotted-string records
Narrative Threads: accounting and recounting in Andean Khipu
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Mayan mathematics (MacTutor)
Inca mathematics (MacTutor)
Introduction to cultural mathematics: with case studies in the Otomies and the Incas (e-book)
Archives of American Mathematics
The teaching and history of mathematics in the United States (e-book)
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The Mayans
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History of Number : evidence from Papua New Guinea and Oceania
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athematics in India, 500BCE -1800CE
Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics
Mathematics in Ancient Jaina Literature
Indian Mathematics
Mathematical Achievements of Pre-Modern Indian Mathematicians
A Passage to Infinity: medieval Indian mathematics from Kerala and its impact
Reviving Ancient Chinese Mathematics: mathematics, history, and politics in the work of Wu Wen-Tsun
The Emperor's New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)
The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra
A Typology of Numeral Systems in South Asian Languages
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History of Mathematics: China
Chinese mathematics (MacTutor)
History of Chinese Mathematics (e-book)
Culture and Math: The Chinese (DVD)
Indian mathematics (MacTutor)
Culture and Math: The Indus Valley (DVD)
Mathematics in India (e-book)
Studies in the history of Indian mathematics (print book)
A history of Japanese mathematics (e-book)
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The Silk Road.
Episode 2
Story of India.
Beginnings
The Genius of the east mathematics during the middle ages
Ebooks:
Count Like an Egyptian
Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam
Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics
From Alexandria, Through Baghdad
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
Magic Squares in the Tenth Century: two Arabic treatises by Anākī and Būzjānī
Mathematics in Ancient Egypt: a contextual history
Al-Kāshī's Miftāḥ al ḥisab. Volume I - Arithmetric - Translation and Commentary
Al-Kashi's Miftah Al-Hisab, Volume II: Geometry
Al-Kashi's Miftah al-Hisab, Volume III: Algebra
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Babylonian mathematics (MacTutor)
Arabic mathematics (MacTutor)
Culture and Math: the Arabs (DVD)
Mesopotamian Mathematics
Egyptian mathematics and Numbers Hieroglyphs
Ancient Egyptian mathematics (MacTutor)
Ten Algorithms for Egyptian Fractions
Egyptian Fraction
Old Egyptian Math Cats: Fractions
Egyptian Fractions
Egyptian Fractions
Egyptian Fractions (PDF)
Culture and Math: the Egyptians (DVD)
Rabbinical mathematics and astronomy (print book)
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The Historic Memory
East to West.
Episode 4, The Muslim Renaissance
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Ebooks:
Great Moments in Mathematics (Before 1650)
Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History
Mathematical Tablets from Tell Harmal
Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics
Ebooks:
Great Moments in Mathematics (Before 1650)
A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685
Thabit Ibn Qurra : Science and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Baghdad
Medieval Finitism
Ebooks:
Great Moments in Mathematics (Before 1650)
A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685
Videos:
The Frontiers of Space: Mathematics During the Scientific Revolution
Ebooks:
Great Moments in Mathematics (Before 1650)
Great Moments in Mathematics (After 1650)
A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685
Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition
The Emperor's New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)
Videos:
The Frontiers of Space: Mathematics During the Scientific Revolution
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Great Moments in Mathematics (After 1650)
Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition
The Emperor's New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)
Ebooks:
The Real and the Complex: A History of Analysis in the 19th Century
From Calculus to Computers : Using the last 200 Years of Mathematics History in the Classroom
Great Moments in Mathematics (After 1650)
From Calculus to Computers : Using the last 200 Years of Mathematics History in the Classroom
The Real and the Complex: A History of Analysis in the 19th Century
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–1900
Mr Hopkins' Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century
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Italian Mathematics Between the Two World Wars
From Calculus to Computers : Using the last 200 Years of Mathematics History in the Classroom
Great Moments in Mathematics (After 1650)
A Panorama of Hungarian Mathematics in the Twentieth Century, I
From Calculus to Computers : Using the last 200 Years of Mathematics History in the Classroom
Mathematicians at war: Volterra and his French colleagues in World War I
Ebooks:
From Calculus to Computers : Using the last 200 Years of Mathematics History in the Classroom
Great Moments in Mathematics (After 1650)
A Panorama of Hungarian Mathematics in the Twentieth Century, I
From Calculus to Computers : Using the last 200 Years of Mathematics History in the Classroom
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