Research Topics

On this page you will find various topics and ideas that can be researched. Where possible the URL address of an appropriate website has been included.

 

Ancient Number systems

Investigate the development of ancient number systems including Mesopotanian, Egypt,  Roman, Arabic, Babylonian, Mayan, Chinese.

Try the following sites,

Mesopotanian

http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/ 

Arabic

www.islamicity.org/mosque/ihame/Ref6.htm 

Roman

www.cod.edu/people/faculty/lawrence/romans.htm 

Babylonian

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/babylonia.html 

Egypt

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/egypt.html

Mayan

http://mathforum.com/k12/mayan.math/index.html

http://users.ccnet.com/~laplaza/maya/maya2.htm 

China

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/china.html

 

 

Famous Mathematicians

Investigate the biographies of famous mathematicians throughout history

Try the following sites,

 

 

The development of mathematical instruments

Investigate the development of calculation devices throughout mathematical history.

Try the following sites,

Abacus

http:// 

www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus 

 

 

The history of various mathematical topics

Investigate how various mathematical topics have developed.

Try the following sites,

The most famous teacher

This site is all about Euclid's elements

http://numbers.aol.com.bbyarsl/euclid.html

Mathematics archives

This site gives a general history of mathematics

http://archives.math.utk.edu/topics/history.html

Algebra

www.lib.virginia.edu/science/parshall/algebra.html

History of number

The development of mathematics used in ancient Babylonia, Greece and Egypt.

http://nova.bsuvc.bsu.edu/home/tmrabar/number.htm

 

 

Time Zones Around the World

Time zones

www.koalanet.com/world-time-zones.html 

 

 

Pi

The development of the concept of Pi

Try these sites,

Archimedes and Pi

www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/Archimedes/Archimedes.html

Pi

www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/pi.html

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMPi.html

 

 

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