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Math 395 History of Mathematics Spring 2010 |
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| 04.28.10 |
| Partay in class today! |
| 04.23.10 |
| 6-minute oral presentations will be on Monday April 26th. Websites and revised versions of papers must be done Wednesday April 28th. |
| 04.16.10 |
| Paper #2 final draft will be due in class on Monday April 26th. |
| Your last Homework (HW #10: Katz, p. 636-639: 2,17, 18, 39. EXTRA CREDIT: 32, 38.) will be due on Friday April 23rd. |
| 04.12.10 |
| Quiz #3 will be in class on Friday April 16th. |
| 04.07.10 |
| Please fill out the following survey about the final project by Friday April 16th. |
| 04.05.10 |
| HW #9 has been changed: Katz, page 539 (Chapter 15): 1, 6, 11, 25, 26. EXTRA CREDIT (Chapter 15) p. 540, #18, 19. |
| 04.02.10 |
| Newton versus Leibniz debate on Wednesday April 7th. Pick a side: Who invented Calculus? Newton or Leibniz? Read up on the controversy. |
| 03.31.10 |
| Homework #8 is due on Friday April 2nd in class. |
| 03.21.10 |
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Recall that the topic for your second paper is due Friday
March 26, in class. Your paper should discuss the historical
discovery, development and distinctiveness of the
topic/subject/procedure/concept you choose.
It should include
Name of Mathematical Topic |
| 03.05.10 |
| Have a nice Spring Break. When you return HW #6 is due at 5pm on Mon 3.15.10. |
| There will be a short quiz on chapters 7, 8 and 9 (Worksheets 13, 14, 15 and 16) which focuses on Calculation (15 points) on Wednesday March 17. There is no class on Friday March 19th. |
| 03.04.10 |
| Final version of your Mathematician papers are due in class at 10:30am today. You should make sure to include a bolded thesis statement, as well as a word count on the first page, a list of work cited, and your name should not appear until the BACK of the very last page. |
| 03.01.10 |
| Don Zagier of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics will be giving a talk at CalTech on Tuesday March 2nd from 4:15pm in Room 151 of Sloan Hall entitled "Zeta Functions, periods and Diophantine equations." If you attend the talk and write up a 1-page (200+ word) reflection which is emailed to me by Tuesday 3/17/10 you can get 10 extra credit points. |
| 02.24.10 |
| Quiz #1 will be on Friday February 26th in class. It should take about 30 minutes. Covers topics covered in Chapters 1-6 (more emphasis on the earlier stuff--especially the Greeks). No calculators allowed. 1 (10 point long answer question, 5 true false, 5 computations). 25 points total. |
| 02.18.10 |
| HW #4 deadline is extended to in-class on Monday 2/22. |
| 02.17.10 |
| We're going to need to start going through the text a bit faster. I'm hoping to do all of chapter 5 today and all of chapter 6 on Friday. |
| 02.12.10 |
| The first draft of your paper (5 pages, at least 1000 words) is due on Friday February 19. |
| 02.11.10 |
| There will be a 25 point in-class quiz on Chapter 1-5 on Friday February 26. |
| 02.10.10 |
| Read the rest of Chapter 4 and begin Chapter 5. HW #3 is due on Friday, in class. |
| 02.05.10 |
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The subject of your first paper (Mathematician)
is due today, at 5pm. First draft of your paper is due on Friday February 19th, at 5pm. It should be 5 pages and include at least 5 references. It should be evenly weighted between biographical material and an explication of the mathematical significance of the work of the person you chose to wrote about. |
| 02.02.10 |
| HW #2 is due in class on Friday. |
| 01.29.10 |
| HW #1 is due in class today. |
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Your proposal for your first paper
is due on Friday February 5 (in class). It should include
Name of Mathematician |
| 01.22.10 |
| The first chapter of the Katz book is available online until the textbook arrives at the bookstore. |
| 01.20.10 |
| The first day of class! |
| The reading from the first day, "The Origin of Mathematics" is available online. |
| Automathography is due by email by 10:30am on Friday 1.22.10 |
| 01.19.10 |
| Website mostly complete. See the syllabus here. |
| 01.04.10 |
| Website development has begun. |