Week



Amanda P

3

Thursday

 [Incan quipus]

Andrew

3

Thursday

 [Roman numerals]

Anthony

4

Tuesday

 [Euclid's construction of a pentagon -]

Showe

4

Thursday

 [Euclid on the number of primes]

George

5

Tuesday

 [Equivalent versions of Euclid's 5th postulate]

Jae

5

Tuesday

 [Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth]

Jillian

5

Thursday

 [The Sieve of Eratosthenes]

sining

6

Tuesday

 [Apollonius and conics]

Shoulong

6

Tuesday

 [Archimedes' calculation of π]

Grace

6

Thursday

 [Archimedes' quadrature of the parabola]

Wanxin

7

Tuesday

 [Heron's formula for the area of a triangle]

Angela

7

Tuesday

Golden Ratio

Haoxian

7

Thursday

ancient Chinese calculation




Spring Break

Zhihang

8

Tuesday

 [Examples from Nine Chapters of the Mathematical Art]

Tianjian

8

Tuesday

 [Chinese Bamboo Rods]

Binming

8

Thursday

 [Zu Chongzhi on the volume of the sphere]

Sweem

9

Tuesday

 [Al-Khwārizmī on linear and quadratic equations]

Alexander

9

Tuesday

 [Galileo Galilei]

Wilson

9

Thursday

 [Francois Viete - Methods for solving quadratic equations]

Sung

9

Thursday

 [Kepler: area of circle, volume of sphere]

Kathleen

10

Tuesday

 [Descartes and Cartesian coordinates]

Angela R

10

Tuesday

 [Desargues Theorem]

William

10

Thursday

 [Mathematical Induction-F. Maurolico]

Zexuan

11

Tuesday

 [Blaise Pascal on induction]

Thomas

11

Tuesday

 [Maria Agnesi and the Witch of Agnesi]

James

11

Thursday

 [Leibniz vs Newton]

Sarah

12

Tuesday

 [Barrow, Fundamental Theorem of Calculus]

Jason

12

Tuesday

 Jakob Bernoulli and the Law of Large Numbers

Minfeng

12

Thursday

 [The Goldbach Conjecture]

Benson

13

Tuesday

 [Lagrange's Theorem on Subgroups]

Shiwen

13

Tuesday

 [Gauss on the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra]

Erin

13

Thursday

 [History of perfect numbers]

Brett

14

Tuesday

 [The Quintic equation: Ruffini, Abel, Galois.]

Dylan

14

Tuesday

 [A. Cauchy mistake about convergence]

Jade

14

Thursday

Hilbert's Syzygy Theorem & Homological Algebra