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Presenter |
Week starts |
Presentation Recorded |
Topic |
Period |
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Zhihang |
March 30 |
March 31 |
[Examples from Nine Chapters of the Mathematical Art] |
10th–2nd century BCE |
|
Binming |
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March 31 |
[Zu Chongzhi on the volume of the sphere] |
429–500 |
|
Sweem |
April 6 |
April 7 |
[Al-Khwārizmī on linear and quadratic equations] |
780-850 |
|
Alexander |
|
April 7 |
[Galileo Galilei] |
1564-1642 |
|
Wilson |
|
April 7 |
[Francois Viete - Methods for solving quadratic equations] |
1540-1603 |
|
Sung |
|
April 7 |
[Kepler: area of circle, volume of sphere] |
1571-1630 |
|
Kathleen |
April 13 |
April 14 |
[Descartes and Cartesian coordinates] |
1596-1650 |
|
Angela R |
|
April 14 |
[Desargues Theorem] |
1591-1661 |
|
William |
|
April 14 |
[Mathematical Induction-F. Maurolico] |
1494-1575 |
|
Zexuan |
|
April 14 |
[Blaise Pascal on induction] |
1623-1662 |
|
Thomas |
April 20 |
April 21 |
[Maria Agnesi and the Witch of Agnesi] |
1718-1799 |
|
James |
|
April 21 |
[Leibniz vs Newton] |
~1700 |
|
Sarah |
|
April 21 |
[Barrow, Fundamental Theorem of Calculus] |
1630-1677 |
|
Jason |
|
April 21 |
Jakob Bernoulli and the Law of Large Numbers |
1655-1705 |
|
Minfeng |
April 27 |
April 28 |
[The Goldbach Conjecture] |
1690-1764 |
|
Benson |
|
April 28 |
[Lagrange's Theorem on Subgroups] |
1736-1813 |
|
Shiwen |
|
April 28 |
[Gauss on the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra] |
1777-1855 |
|
Erin |
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April 28 |
[History of perfect numbers] |
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Brett |
May 4 |
May 5 |
[The Quintic equation: Ruffini, Abel, Galois.] |
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|
Dylan |
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May 5 |
[A. Cauchy mistake about convergence] |
1789-1857 |
|
Jade |
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May 5 |
Hilbert's Syzygy Theorem & Homological Algebra |
1862-1943 |
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