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The Euler 2004 Conference
Portsmouth, RI, USA; 8--11 August 2004.
http://home.adelphi.edu/~bradley/EulerSociety/home.html
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Roman Numerals and Roman Dates
Includes conversion tables, historical background and a demonstration on how to express the year 1999 in Roman numerals.
http://www.wilkiecollins.demon.co.uk/roman/front.htm
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Sangaku
Japanese votive tablets featuring mathematical problems. Examples with pictures and further resources.
http://www.sangaku.info/
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Twenty-Five Years with Nicolas Bourbaki
Article by Armand Borel from a lecture at Bochum in September 1996 in honour of R.Remmert.
http://www.ega-math.narod.ru/Bbaki/Bourb3.htm
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Washington Post: The Search for Infinity
Discusses the development of the concept of infinity from the early Greeks of the fifth to the second century B.C. Covers the important findings of Zenos, the Pythagorean school, Eudoxus and Archimedes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/mysteryaleph.htm
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The History of the Calculus and the Development of Computer Algebra Systems
Discusses development of integral and derivative calculus from the 17th century. Features contributions by key western mathematicians. Includes examples of selected problems and how they were originally solved in earlier times. Also, covers the histori
http://www.math.wpi.edu/IQP/BVCalcHist/calctoc.html
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Euclid and His Heritage
A conference on the occasion of the publication, for the first time, of a complete digital edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of Euclid's Elements. St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK; 7--8 October 2005.
http://www.claymath.org/euclid/
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The Art of Renaissance Science
Discusses how art and architecture were influenced by mathematical concepts, such as perspective. Includes photo examples.
http://www.mcm.edu/academic/galileo/ars/arshtml/arstoc.html
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India's Contribution to Ancient Mathematics
Discusses the nation's early development of geometric concepts, algorithms, algebraic ideas and the idea of zero. Also, explains how these ideas may have traveled westward after some invasions from Arabic countries in the 13th century.
http://mathemajik.tripod.com/article/mathematics.html
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Historia Mathematica
Elsevier journal about early mathematical discoveries. Includes table of contents and abstracts.
http://authors.elsevier.com/JournalDetail.html?PubID=622841
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