History of Mathematics: Bibliographies and catalogues

A list of bibliographies and catalogues relevant to the study of antiquarian mathematics.

International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. Series A: mathematics. Harrison & Sons, London, 1902-1917.

L'Année philologique Annual publication

Oxford classical dictionary. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1949. 998 pp.

American Mathematical Society. Catalogue of the library. American Mathematical Society, New York, 1910 and 1925.

Archibald, R. C. Outline of the history of mathematics. Amer. Math. Monthly 56 (1949), supplement, 114 pp.

Friberg, Jöran. A survey of publications on Sumero-Akkadian mathematics, metrology, and related matters (1854-1982). University of Göteborg, Göteborg, 1982. Reviewed: MR 84g:01010

Loria, Gino. Guida allo studia della storia delle matematiche. Milano, 1916.

Miller, Geroge Abram. Historical introduction to mathematical literature. Macmillan, New York, 1916. 315 pp.

Müeller, Felix. Führer durch die mathematische Literatur, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der historisch wichtigen Schriften. (Abhandlungen zur Geschichte dir mathematischen Wissenschaften, 27). Tuebner, Leipzig-Berlin, 1909. 262 pp.

Sarton, George. The study of the history of mathematics. Harvard, 1936. Reprint (along with the study of the history of science), Dover, 1954.

Smith, David Eugene. Rara arithmetica. Ginn & Co., Boston-London, 1908.

Smith, W. Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography. 3 vols. London, 1862-1864.

Wölffing, Ernst. Mathematischer Bucherschatz. I. Teil: Reine Mathematik. (Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der mathematischen Wissenschaften, 16.) Leipzig, 1903. 452pp.


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