Welcome to the web site for biographies of women in mathematics. These pages are part of an on-going project at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics.
The aims of the British Society for the History of Mathematics are to promote research into the history of mathematics and its use at all levels of mathematics education. It does this through meetings, its Bulletin, and by other means.
Every culture on earth has developed some mathematics. In some cases, this mathematics has spread from one culture to another.
Société canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques.
Websites relevant to the History of Mathematics.
Convergence
Magazine which provides a wealth of resources to help teach mathematics using its history.
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora
In Mathematics, more than any other field of study, have we heard proclamations and statements similar to, "The Negro is incapable of succeeding." Ancient and present achievements contradict such statements. One of the purposes of this website is to exhibit the inaccuracy of those proclamations by exhibiting the accomplishments of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora within the Mathematical Sciences.