AlgebraResources

Links to History of Abstract Algebra

Specific to Abstract Algebra

• The development of group theory
• Abstract linear spaces
• Matrices and determinants
• The fundamental theorem of algebra
• Quadratic, cubic and quartic equations
• Short overview of Modern Algebra
• A Brief History of Algebra and Computing: an Eclectic Oxonian View

Biographies of those who contributed to Algebra

• Abel, Niels Henrik
• Artin, Emil
• Boole, George
• Burnside, William
• Cauchy, Augustin Louis
• Cayley, Arthur
• Dedekind, Richard
• De Morgan, Augustus
• Euclid
• Fermat, Pierre de
• Galois, Evariste
• Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich
• Germain, Sophie
• Hamilton, William R
• Hamming, Richard W
• Jordan, Camille
• Lagrange, Joseph-Louis
• Noether, Emmy
• Pascal, Blaise
• Sylow, Ludwig
• Sylvester, James Joseph

General Mathematical History

• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive - very complete and worthwhile
• Mathematician of the day
• History of Mathematics - by David Joyce
• List of links
• list of other sites