A Time Line of Mathematicians

The School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland operates a website called The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Here they provide thousands of biographies of mathematicians throughout history, from the 17th century B.C. to present. A more user-friendly page, A Time Line of Mathematicians, provides a visual representation of the most important mathematicians and shows how their lifetimes overlapped. This can be an interesting way for students who don't want too many details to see an overview of the history of mathematics and compare when the most important researchers were alive. I would use this in class, when mentioning significant mathematicians, to better explain to my students just when they were alive.