Images for Classroom Use

Use these images of mathematical objects, texts, and people in your classroom!

Mathematical Treasures: Images of historical objects and texts from the Columbia University Library.

The Quipu: A collection of images of Inca quipus, with references to their earliest descriptions.

Counting Boards: Two photos of a rare and fine example of a counting table the author found in a French museum.

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Geometric Sketches: Da Vinci illustrated Luca Pacioli’s 1509 De divina proportione. Several of his illustrations are shown here.

Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia Nova: Images from Kepler’s 1609 New Astronomy.

The Geometry of Rene Descartes: Images from a 1659 Latin edition of Descartes’ Geometria, originally published in 1637 in French as La géométrie.

Portrait Gallery: Images of mathematicians from ancient to modern times.

Paul R. Halmos Photograph Collection:  Photos of mathematicians from the 1950s through the 1990s.