Teachers-Direct Recruitment - Wordsearch Resource Maker. British Society for the History of Mathematics. The British Society for the History of Mathematics exists to promote research into the history of mathematics and its use at all levels of mathematics education.
The Society's Bulletin is published by Taylor and Francis, and carries a wide range of articles and reviews of interest to the history of mathematics community. This link provides information about how to join the Society; this site also contains information about the Society and its history, its current activities, and various resources on the history of mathematics. The British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM) has announced the winner of the 2013 Neumann Prize. MacTutor History of Mathematics. MATH WORDS, AND SOME OTHER WORDS OF INTEREST. If you have suggestions or comments E-mail to: Pat Ballew "....................
Read Pat's Blogs here to read Romanian translation of this web page (by Web Geek Science) Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics - Nightly. A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z - Sources RECENT CHANGES: On March 28 the cosecant entry was revised to show an earliest known use in English in 1658 by John Newton, and to show that Rheticus apparently did not use cosecans.
This new information comes from Glen Van Brummelen. On March 28 an entry pointless was added, and the entry point was revised, both by John Aldrich. James Landau has found in a Google print search that Boole used conditional probability in 1854. The entry for that term will be updated soon. Plus.maths.org.