A bas relief from the courtyard of Dabney House at Caltech.
Students changed the name from
Galileo to
Feynman on the central figure
when Richard Feynman won the 1965 Nobel
Prize for Physics.
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 The house in Arcetri near Florence where Galileo lived under permanent arrest following his trial in the Vatican. |
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EMIS - The European Mathematical
Information Service < http://www.emis.de/ > |
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Institute and Museum of the History
of Science: Florence, Italy, now named the Museo Galileo. The Museo Galileo is a short walk from the Arno, Ponte Vecchio, Uffizi and the Duomo seen here. < http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/ > |
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University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland) |
 Library of Congress Washington, DC. Thoth Egyptian god of mathematics. . . . .  from a Cairo papyrus.  from the house in Arcetri near Florence where Galileo lived under permanent arrest following his trial in the Vatican. |
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Mathematical Stamps |
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http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/documentation/dossiers/page/savants.html Names of 72 scientists and mathematicians listed on the four facades of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. |
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http://homepages.bw.edu/~dcalvis/history.html David Calvis of Baldwin-Wallace College, near Cleveland, Ohio offers a collection of History of Mathematics Web Sites. |
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http://math.hws.edu/javamath/config_applets/index.html
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY |
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http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/chronology.html Clark University |
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http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/
Harvey Mudd College |
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http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ | |
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A wonderful collection from Greece. < http://www.stefanides.gr > |
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http://www.ms.uky.edu/~carl/ma330/html/curves1.html
University of Kentucky |
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Resources from Computing Technology for Math Excellence. < http://www.ct4me.net/math_resources.htm > |
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Normals of Curves and
Circles < http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/Texts.Folder/Envel/envelopes.html > |
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Individual Men and Women . . . . |
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Agnesi http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/sgray/Agnesi/ |
 from the legislative building of Parliament in Victoria, British Columbia. |
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Archimedes http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html |
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Descartes http://www.orst.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/descartes.html (The literature on Descartes is immense. This is one of the better biographies from a philosophy department.) |
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Hippias http://www.geom.umn.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe/quadratrix.html (Geometer's Sketchpad) http://chronomath.irem.univ-mrs.fr/chronomath/Hippias.html
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Galileo http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Gali |
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Other Interesting
Sites . . . . . |
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A great article on the history of "thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization" - in other words, the history of curves and graphs. < milestone.pdf > |
 at Princeton
University
 and the Institute for Advanced Study  |
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Mathematical Lego Constructions < http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mathlego.htm > |
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Ethno-Mathematics: The Inca and Peruvian Geometry |
