Math 400 History of Mathematics Spring  2020

Prof.  Buckmire

 

Notes

Schedule

Homework Quizzes

Project

Resources

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Notes

 

Week 1

Tue Jan 21

 Class 1: WS #1

FIRST DAY OF CLASS: Introducing History of Mathematics From Euler to Uhlenbeck

Week 2

Tue Jan 28

Class 2: PSP  #1

(Buckmire absent) Euler Solves The Basel Problem

Week 2

Tue Feb 4

Class 3: WS #2

Euler (Part 2): "The Master of Us All"

Week 3

Tue Feb 11

Class 4: WS #3

Other Eighteenth Century Mathematicians: Agnesi, Bernouillis, Clairault, D'Alembert, Lagrange, Laplace, Legendre

Week 4

Tue Feb 18

Class 5: WS #4

Gauss: Prince of Mathematicians

Week 5

Tue Feb 25

Class 6: WS #5

Cauchy: The Perfectionist

Week 6

Tue Mar 3

Class 7: WS #6

Abel, Bolzano, Cauchy and Dedekind: The Rigor Debate in the Nineteenth Century

Week 7

Tue Mar 17

Class 8

CLASS CANCELLED (COVID-19)

Week 8

Tue Mar 24 

Class 9: WS #7

Other Nineteenth Century Mathematicians: Galois, Riemann, Boole, Cantor, Poincaré and more

Week 9

Tue Mar 31

Class 10: WS #8

Twentieth Century Mathematicians (Godel, Russell, Noether, Turing, Hilbert, etc)

Week 10

Tue Apr 7

Class 11:
Quiz #1

Short Exam (Quiz on Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Mathematics and Mathematicians)

Week 11

Tue Apr 14 

Class 12: WS #9

Twenty-First Century Mathematicians (Mirzakhami, Uhlenbeck, Simons, Wiles, Tao, etc)

Week 12

Tue Apr 21 

Class 13

CLASS CANCELLED for Founders Day

Week 13

Tue Apr 28

Class 14

Oral Presentations of Projects

Week 14

Tue May 5

 

Final Papers Due by 5pm PT