places

This is by no means an exhaustive table of places and links to visit. It is just a beginning of the list of places that are important in the history of mathematics, and has been made to cover only those places that are currently being mentioned in some other pages within this site.


COUNTRY	PAGE ON THIS SITE			LINKS TO PAGES ON WWW

Italy	Archimedes and his Square in Syracusa		Siege of Syracuse

Egypt	Alexandria		The new Library of Alexandria

United Kingdom		De Morgan and LMS Isaac Newton	London Mathematical Society Royal Society Royal Institution Edinburgh Mathematical Society The Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford (Savilian professorships) Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge (Lucasian professorships)

France	Gaspard Monge Monge's tomb in Pantheon École Polytechnique École Normale Supérieure		University of Paris Institut de France / Académie des Sciences (part of the Institut, Paris) École Polytechnique École Normale Supérieure Inscription on the Eiffel Tower

Russia	Euler Königsberg Bridges		Russian Academy of Sciences Town of Königsberg

United States	Einstein		Princeton University

Iraq	Baghdad House of Wisdom		House of Wisdom

Germany	Göttingen Königsberg Bridges		University of Göttingen Town of Königsberg

Some Famous Places and the People who made them so in the History of Mathematics

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