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MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews 1994-
URL: www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.html
Last visited August 2015
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Keywords Biography, History, Mathematics
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-08-2015-0205
The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive is a website containing information that pertains to the lives of mathematicians that helped develop the field, as well as other historical facts about mathematics. Each day is dedicated to a different mathematician, and the organization of the biography page makes it easy to find any given mathematician's biographical information. I especially like the section of famous curves and the different types and background information about each.
The Archive contains biographies of over 2,800 mathematicians, organized chronologically by name and date, as well as a map with links to each showing their nationalities. Each biography varies in length;...