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• Early History

  • Babylonian Numbers - 4:59 min

  • How to Use Babylonian Numbers - 20:15

  • Old Babylonian mathematics and Plimpton 322 - 26:27

  • Anonymous Mathematicians of Ancient Egypt - 43:36

  • Ancient Egyptian Math - 14:54

  • Math and the Rise of Civilization - Trailer 2:38

    • Ep.01 - The Beginning of Numbers - 47:11

    • Ep.02 - The Elements - 43:12

    • Ep.03 - The Divinity of Numbers - 46:02

    • Ep.04 - The World in Motion - 45:43

    • Ep.05 Conquering Math's New Frontiers - 46:02

  • The Story of Maths or Try Here - 57:55

  • The Maya Base-20 Number System - 10:45

  • Documentary of number one story - 55:53

  • The History and Historiography of the Discovery of Calculus in India 47:20

  • Mathematics in India - From Vedic Period to Modern Times - A series of lectures

• Greek Mathematics

  • Emergence of Greek Mathematics - 24:37

  • History Buffs: Agora - 28:54

  • Hypatia And The Great Fall Of Alexandria - 47:46

  • Archimedes Palimpsest, and the Video from class

    • Archimedes' Square

    • Ostomachion?,

    • Tricolor Stomachion (14:12)

  • Library of Alexandria - What does the Evidence Say? (27:00)

  • The Antikythera Mechanism - 7:51

• History of Math - Wildberger HoM Course

• A Brief History of Mathematics

• Prezi Timeline - Calculus

• Biographies

  • A Tribute to Euler - William Dunham (55:08)

  • An Evening with Leonhard Euler - William Dunham (1:25:39)

  • Euler's Exponentials - Prof. Raymond Flood (50:56)

  • List of Films About Mathematicians

  • The Story of the Archimedes Palimpsest to 2000 (Part 1/3) - 8:44

  • The Story of the Archimedes Palimpsest to 2000 (Part 2/3) - 7:52

  • The Story of the Archimedes Palimpsest to 2000 (Part 3/3) - 3:21

  • Fermat & Descartes: Origins of Coordinate Geometry Part1

  • The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat & the 17th Century Letter that Made the World Modern

• Special Topics

  • The Music of the Primes - du Sautoy

  • 500 years of NOT teaching THE CUBIC FORMULA

  • The Birth of Calculus

  • Fermat's Last Theorem - 45 min

  • Josephus Problem - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCsD3ZGzMgE&t=20s

  • Hilbert's Dream - related to Godel's Undecidability

  • The Antikythera Mechanism - 7:51

  • Cavalieri's Principle in 3D | Volume of a sphere (3:39)

  • The Napkin Ring Problem - Application of Cavalieri's Principle (10:43)

  • Galois’ Version of Galois Theory by Harold Edwards (57:48).
• From Gresham College
  • 500 Years of Mathematics: Are We Living in a New Golden Age?
  • History of Mathematics Lectures
  • Series - Great Mathematicians, Great Mathematics - Prof. Raymond Flood
  • Applying Modern Mathematics - Prof. Flood
  • Turing and von Neumann - Prof. Flood
  • Early Mathematics Day
  • Robin Wilson Lectures - Euler, Newton
  • The Maths of Perspective in Art - Sarah Hart
  • The Great Mathematicians - Profs. Wilson and Flood (49:47)
  • A Millennium of Mathematical Puzzles (1:09:10)

• Mathematics in the Movies
• Films About Mathematicians
• MMDB−The Mathematical Movie Database

Books

• Euclid's Elements online.

• https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/pioneers-in-mathematics

• https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/HistoryMathCourses.pdf

Famous Mathematicians

•  33 Greatest Mathematicians of All Time - 4:33

• http://famous-mathematicians.org/

• https://www.storyofmathematics.com/mathematicians.html

• Academic Genealogy - from The Mathematics Genealogy Project

• Hundred Greatest Mathematicians of the Past  

• Who was Ramanujan? By Stephen Wolfram

• Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’ reporting on
  The classical origin of modern mathematics

• A (very) Brief History of Joseph-Louis Lagrange (19:24)

• A (very) Brief History of Bernhard Riemann (13:17)

Math in the News

• https://phys.org/science-news/mathematics/

• https://www.ams.org/mathmedia/.

Miscellaneous

• Who Discovered Bayes's Theorem?

  • List of examples of Stigler's law

• mages of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps

• Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics

• Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols

• https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/4000-years-of-geometry

• 1+2+3+...=? 34:24

• http://www.math.stonybrook.edu/~moira/courses/mat336-sp2020/Material/DescartesetAll.pdf

• MT Cardano https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cardan/

• nested radicals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_radical

• Wolfram’s Writings https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2016/04/who-was-ramanujan/#:%7E:text=On%20about%20January%2031%2C%201913,only%20%C2%A320%20per%20annum.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcKRGpMiVTw Mathologer – Ramanujan