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MATH 459: Senior Research Seminar: Biographical & Cultural Background

The goal of this LibGuide is to help seniors select a research topic and find adequate sources to gain knowledge about that topic.

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MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive -- Biographies Index
"We now have biographies of 2680 different mathematicians and continue to add to this at the rate of about 100 a year... We have pictures of about 2300 of these mathematicians and more than 6000 pictures in all."

Minorities in Math

The Muslim Contribution to Mathematics by Ali Abdullah Al-Daffa'
Publication Date: 2015-10-21
Paths to Discovery by Norma E. Cantu (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011-07-01
Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century by Katherine A. Morin; James H. Kessler; J. S. Kidd; Renee A. Kidd
Publication Date: 1996-01-08
Al-Khwarizmi by Roshdi Rashed (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010-07-01
Notable Black American Scientists by Kristine Krapp (Editor)
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
African Americans in Science, Math and Invention by Ray Spangenburg; Kit Moger
Publication Date: 2003-02-01
The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
Publication Date: 1991-05-01
Mathematics in India by Kim Plofker
Publication Date: 2009-01-18
Blacks in Science and Medicine by Vivian O. Sammons
Publication Date: 1989-09-01

Women in Mathematics

American Women in Science by Martha J. Bailey
Publication Date: 1994-07-01
American Women in Science, 1950 to the Present by Martha J. Bailey
Publication Date: 1998-11-01
A to Z of Women in Science and Math by Lisa Yount; Nicole Brown (Editor)
Publication Date: 1999-05-01
Women of Mathematics by Louise S. Grinstein; Paul J. Campbell
Publication Date: 1987-06-16
Complexities by Bettye Anne Case (Editor); Anne M. Leggett (Editor)
Publication Date: 2005-01-30
Julia by Constance Reid
Publication Date: 1997-02-01
Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt
Publication Date: 2016-04-05
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
ISBN: 9780062363596

Publication Date: 2016-09-06
Math Equals: Biographies of Women Mathematicians by Teri Perl
Publication Date: 1978-01-01
Women in Mathematics by Lynn M. Osen
Publication Date: 1975-02-15
Notable American Women by Susan Ware (Editor); Stacy Braukman (Editor)
Publication Date: 2005-02-09
The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science by Marilyn Ogilvie; Joy Harvey
Publication Date: 2000-07-06
International Women in Science by Catharine M. C. Haines
Publication Date: 2001-11-20
Notable Women Scientists by Pamela Proffitt (Editor)
ISBN: 0787639001

Publication Date: 1999-11-22
International Encyclopedia of Women Scientists by Elizabeth H. Oakes
Publication Date: 2001-11-01

More Biographies

Creators of Mathematics by Ken Houston
Publication Date: 2019-01-10
The Birth of Mathematics by Michael J. Bradley
Publication Date: 2006
Fascinating Mathematical People by Donald J. Albers (Editor); Gerald L. Alexanderson (Editor); Philip J. Davis (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2011-09-26
The Great Mathematicians by Turnbull, H. W. (Herbert Westren)
Publication Date: 1961
The Honors Class by Benjamin Yandell
Publication Date: 2001-12-12
I, Mathematician by Peter Casazza (Editor); Steven G. Krantz (Editor); Randi D. Ruden (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015-08-13
Journey Through Genius by William Dunham
Publication Date: 1991-01-16
Notable Mathematicians by Young Robin; Zoran Minderovic (Editor); Robyn V. Young (Editor)
Publication Date: 1998-04-24
Mathematical People by Donald J. Albers (Editor); G. L. Alexanderson (Editor)
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
More Mathematical People by Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Constance Reid (Ed.s)
Publication Date: 1994-08-31
Remarkable Mathematicians by Ioan James
Publication Date: 2003-02-06
Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science and technology by Asimov, Isaac
Publication Date: 1964
Dictionary of Scientific Biography by Charles C. Gillispie
Publication Date: 1970-04-01
Biographical Dictionary of American Science by Clark A. Elliott
Publication Date: 1979-02-22

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Notable Scientists by Brigham Narins
ISBN: 0787617512

Publication Date: 2000-11-27

Math -- Cultures and Geographies

Native American Mathematics by Michael P. Closs (Editor)
Publication Date: 1996-03-01
Mapping Time, Space and the Body by Mariana Kawall Leal Ferreira
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam by Victor J. Katz (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007-08-05
The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra by Roger Hart
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
African Mathematics by Mamokgethi Setati
Publication Date: 2011
The Crest of the Peacock by George Gheverghese Joseph
Publication Date: 2010-10-24
Combinatorics: Ancient and Modern by Ronald Graham; Robin Wilson; John J. Watkins
Publication Date: 2013-08-24
Mathematical Works Printed in the Americas, 1554-1700 by Bruce Stanley Burdick
Publication Date: 2009-03-16
Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam by J. L. Berggren
Publication Date: 2003-12-04
Was Pythagoras Chinese? by Frank J. Swetz; T. I. Kao
Publication Date: 1977-01-01
The Development of Arabic Mathematics by Roshdi Rashed; Angela Armstrong (Translator)
Publication Date: 1994-06-30
Sacred Mathematics by Fukagawa Hidetoshi; Tony Rothman; Freeman Dyson (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2008-07-21
Mathematics in Ancient Iraq by Eleanor Robson
Publication Date: 2008-09-28
Mathematics in Victorian Britain by Raymond Flood; Adrian Rice; Robin Wilson
Publication Date: 2011-10-01
Galileo's Muse by Mark A. Peterson
Publication Date: 2011-10-17
African Fractals by Ron Eglash
ISBN: 0813526132

Publication Date: 1999
Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Cultures by Claudia Zaslavsky
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
Mathematics Elsewhere: An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures by Marcia Ascher
Publication Date: 2002-08-25

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