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  1. Diophantus (200 - 284) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Diophantus/

    24 Aug 2026: This collection of puzzles contain one about Diophantus which says:-. his boyhood lasted. ... in 912, of Books IV to VII of Arithmetica by Diophantus of Alexandria.

  2. Lunar features - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/LunarFeatures0/

    28 Feb 2026: About 350 mathematicians in our archive have lunar features (mostly craters) named after them. You can see an account of how these features were named and links to files of whom they were called after. You can see a Wikipedia article on the feature

  3. Heinz Klaus Strick's histories - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/

    24 Aug 2026: Every month for 20 years Heinz Klaus Strick produced a mathematical calendar page, illustrated with postage stamps from his extensive collection. These were published in the on-line magazine Spektrum. English translations of these were later

  4. Linda Hall Library links - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/Linda_Hall_links/

    6 Sep 2026: The Linda Hall library is situated in Kansas City, Missouri and has an important collection of history of mathematics books. We have linked more than 250 of our biographies to their Scientist of the day feature curated by W B Ashworth Jr, as shown

  5. Pictures of Diophantus - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Diophantus/pictdisplay/

    19 Jan 2025: Drawing by Andreas Strick. See.

  6. Sci Hi blog links - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/SH/

    14 Apr 2026: The Sci Hi blog was a daily blog on science, technology and art in history which ran from 2014 to 2023. It has a good coverage of mathematics and astronomy. We have linked more than 250 of our biographies to articles in this blog as you can see below

  7. Stamps from Mathematica - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/Mathematica_stamps/

    24 Aug 2026: In Heinz Klaus Strick's biographies (see THIS LINK) he usually has a postage stamp as a portrait for the subject. In the case where there is no suitable stamp he has designed a stamp from the (fictional) country of Mathematica. These stamps are

  8. Time Line: 800BC-700AD

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Timelines/timelinea.html

    11 Dec 2024: Indian mathematicians are marked in red. Other non-Greek mathematicians are marked in blue. For the purposes of this diagram, if birth or death dates are not known, we have assigned a life span of 60 years. Go to the Timelines index. Scroll the

  9. Chronology for 1 - 500 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/3/

    7 Mar 2023: Hypatia writes commentaries on Diophantus and Apollonius.

  10. Andre Weil - Times obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Weil/

    7 Mar 2023: He was especially fascinated by "Diophantine equations" -- named after the Greek Diophantus, who flourished around AD 250 -- where the name of the game is to find whole numbers that satisfy some ... Diophantus's answer: 41, 80, and 320.). Weil made his