Abstract: The author will present examples demonstrating how technology can be used to enhance a course in the history of mathematics.
 

• As in most applications of technology, it is concepts that drive the technology.
• The history of mathematics considers in the development of mathematics :
• individuals who create and present mathematics
• political, sociological and educational  contexts where mathematics is sustained and grows
• concepts of mathematics as they are understood today and especially

as they might have been understood by people when they were developed.
• Technology provides a variety of general tools for education.

These tools are useful in the study of history by making information easier to
• access - using the WWW;
• organize - using image, presentation, and word processors;and
• comprehend - using computational and visual tools to deconstruct and reconstruct [historical] results and arguments.

Web resources for biographies and personal information.

Web resources for content historical development.

Web resources for primary resources.

Euclid

Stevin

Abbott

Lectures linked to resources.

Cardano's Solution of a Cubic (from Smith's Source Book).

Oresme's discussion of visualizing motion and acceleration.

Student presentation. The Archimedes project.

• Technology applications that enrich understanding and make historical arguments and computations accessible and lively. Examples
• Using Excel to make arithmetical computations accessible.
• Napier's Tables of  Logarithms

 
• Using Geometers' Sketchpad to make geometrical arguments accessible.
• Cardano's (java made with GSP) solution of a cubic.
• Gregoire de Saint-Vincent's Areas under a hyperbola.
• Barrow's Theorem.

 
• Combining resources to demonstrate interaction of numerical with geometrical.
• Newton