History of mathematics pages: A companion to Web-Based Precalculus, UALR

Second Prize Winner, UALR Teaching with Technology Fair, 2001

Laura Ackerman Smoller,

Department of History, UALR

All about "e": http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/efacts.html

Descartes and the birth of analytic geometry: http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/descartes.html

The invention of the equals sign: http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/equals.html

The amazing history of pi: http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/pi.html

John Napier and logarithms: http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/napier.html

Pascal's triangle: http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/pascalstriangle.html

Long multiplication in the Middle Ages: http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/medievalmult.html

The history of matrices: http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/matrices.html

The birth of trigonometry: http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/trig.html

The history of the Pythagorean theorem: http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/pythag.html

Al-Khwarizmi and algebra: http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/aljabr.html

Newton and the binomial theorem: http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/newton.html

The Fibonacci sequence and the golden mean http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/fibonacci.html

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