After the death of its chair and only remaining full time faculty member in 2005, Dr. David Pingree, the president of Brown University and then Provost Zimmer decided to close the History of Mathematics department, thus snuffing out a branch of scholarship that had flourished at Brown for close to 60 years.
A history of the Department
A list of research projects that were being conducted in the Department at the time of Dr. Pingree's - and the Department's - untimely passing.
A biography of the Department's founder, Otto Neugebauer
An article by Neugebauer on Mathematical Methods in Ancient Astronomy
An article about Dr. Pingree in the George Street Journal
An article about Dr. Pingree in the Harvard Crimson, 1963
An article about Dr. Pingree by Kim Plofker
His autobiography, edited by William Calder, III
To compile a complete list of the texts and articles produced by the Department, its faculty and graduate students would take take months - if not longer - to compile. Dr. Pingree himself produced over 40 books or monographs and over 200 articles. I present here only a brief, but hopefully representative list of what the Department produced.
A (somewhat) complete bibliography of David Pingree’s work is avalaible in Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree, eds. C. Burnett, J. P. Hogendijk, K. Plofker, and M. Yano, Leiden, 2004, 890 pp
A bibliography of Neugebauer's work can be found in " Otto Neugebauer: Bibliography, 1925-1979”, Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Science and Medicine, 22 (1979), 258-280. by Sachs, Janet & Toomer, Gerald J.
A bibliography a A. Sachs' work can be found in “Bibliography of the Published Works of Abraham Sachs”, in: E. Leichty, M. de J. Ellis & P. Gerardi (eds.), A Scientific Humanist: Studies in Memory of Abraham Sachs (Kramer Fund, Philadelphia, 1988 [= Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund, nr. 9]), pp. 377-378. By Pingree.
History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy, Otto Neugebauer, Springer, 1975
An English translation of Ptolemy's Almagest, Prof. Toomer
The Pancasiddhantika of Varahamihira, Neugebauer and Pingree
Astronomical Cuneiform Texts. 3 vols. London, Lund Humphries, Neugebauer, Sachs
The Exact Sciences in Antquity, Neugebauer
Dorotheus Sidonius, Carmen Astrologicum, Interpretationem Arabicum in lingvam Anglicam versam vna cvm Dorothei fragmentis et Graecis et Latinis, edidit D. Pingree (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1976)
Apollonius: Conics Books V to VII : The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original in the Version of the Banu Musa (Sources in the History of Mathematics) volume II. Toomer.
Pappus of Alexandria, Book VII of the Collection, A. Jones
Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit - Pingree