Math 395 History of Mathematics Spring 2010

Prof.  Buckmire

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Wed Apr 28

Class 34

Partay!
Mon Apr 26

Class 33

Oral Presentations and Class Evaluation

Week 14

Fri Apr  23

Class 32

Twentieth Century Developments
Wed Apr 21

Class 31

Cauchy!
Mon Apr 19

Class 30

Gauss: Prince of Mathematicians

Week 13

Fri Apr 16

Class 29

Quiz 3
Wed Apr 14

Class 28

Euler: Master of us all
Mon Apr 12

Class 27

Lagrange, Laplace, Legendre, D'Alembert, Clairault, etc

Week 12

Fri Apr 9

Class 26

18th Century Adoption of Calculus: The Bernouillis
Wed Apr 7

Class 25

The Newton v. Leibniz Debate: Who Invented Calculus?
Mon Apr 5

Class 24

Leibniz's Calculus

Week 11

Fri Apr 2

Class 23

Newton's Calculus
Wed Mar 31

Class 22

Calculus before Newton and Leibniz
Mon Mar 29

Class 21

Mersenne, Pascal, Fermat, Descartes and Galileo!

Week 10

Fri Mar 26

Class 20

Mathematical Methods of the Renaissance Era
Wed Mar 24

Class 19

Mathematics of the Renaissance Era
Mon Mar 22

Class 18

Mathematics Around The World

Week 9

Fri Mar 19

 

No Class (Buckmire absent)
Wed Mar 17

 

Quiz #2 (Buckmire absent)
Mon Mar 15

Class 17

The Dark Ages...

Week 8

March 8-12: Spring Break

Fri Mar 5

Class 16

Islamic Mathematics
Wed Mar 3

Class 15

Ancient Indian Mathematics

Mon Mar 1

Class 14

Chinese Mathematics, continued

Week 7

Fri Feb 26

 

Quiz #1 (Buckmire absent)
Wed Feb 24

Class 14

Chinese Mathematics, continued
Mon Feb 22

Class 13

Introduction to Ancient Chinese Mathematics

Week 6

Fri Feb 19

Class 12

Diophantus, Hypatia and the end of the Greek era
Wed Feb 17

Class 11

Ptolemy and the dawn of trigonometry
Mon Feb 15

 

No Class (Presidents day)

Week 5

Fri Feb 12

Class 11

Appolonius and his Conics (continued)
Wed Feb 10

Class 10

Appolonius and his Conics
Mon Feb 8

Class 9

Archimedes

Week 4

Fri Feb 5

Class 8

Euclid's Other Contributions: number theory, ratios,  and more!
Wed Feb 3

Class 7

Elements Book II and the Geometric Algebra
Mon Feb 1

Class 6

Introduction to Euclid and his Elements

Week 3

Fri Jan 29

Class 5

Contributions of Greek Mathematicians: Logic, Paradox and Proof
Wed Jan 27

Class 4

Introduction to Greek Mathematics
Mon Jan 25

Class 3

Algebra in Mesopotamia

Week 2

Fri Jan 22

Class 2

Egyptian and Babylonian Arithmetic
Wed Jan 20

Class 1

The Origins of Numbers

Week 1