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The manuscripts of Timbuktu
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Greek Mathematical Works
Archimedes and the Roman Imagination
Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture
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)
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Signs of the Inka Khipu: binary coding in the Andean knotted-string records
Narrative Threads: accounting and recounting in Andean Khipu
Introduction to Cultural Mathematics: with case studies in the Otomies and the Incas
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
The Mayans
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America: History and Life
History of Number : evidence from Papua New Guinea and Oceania
Story of 1: How a Single Digit Created Math and Changed the World (online video)
Ancient mathematics (e-book)
General History of Mathematics: From the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century
The birth of mathematics : ancient times to 1300 (print book)
Mathematical Events of the Twentieth Century (e-book)
History of modern mathematics (e-book)
Duel at dawn : heroes, martyrs, and the rise of modern mathematics (print book)
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The Language of the Universe Mathematics in Ancient Times
The Genius of the east mathematics during the middle ages
To infinity and beyond mathematics in modern times
Mathematics 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
A History of Chinese Mathematics
Reviving Ancient Chinese Mathematics: mathematics, history, and politics in the work of Wu Wen-Tsun
Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry
The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra
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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
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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
Digital Storytelling and Dissemination of Research Findings on Contributions of the Medieval Islamic Civilization to Mathematics and Sciences
Note: these are student projects from a course at Kenyon College
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)
Videos:
The Historic Memory
East to West.
Episode 4, The Muslim Renaissance
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Index Islamicus
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