MAT 336: History of Mathematics

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Presentations

Starting in week 4 (February 12), each class will include up to two 15-minute student presentations. The topic of the presentation is identical to the topic of your first paper.
You should sign-up for an in-class presentation by February 2
and submit your presentation topic by February 16.

Presentation Schedule

The first two presentations of every week are on Monday; the third and fourth, on Friday.

WEEK

PRESENTER & TITLE

Week 4

(2/12-2/16)

1. David Briggs, Pythagoras

2. Ramon Fernandez, Justifications

3. Anita Mathes, Construction problems

4. Lisa Beckel, Hippocrates' quadrature of the circle

Week 5

(2/19-2/23)

1. Christina Domanico, Euclides' work in number theory

2. Christina Spagnolo, Use of Euclidean postulates in construction

3. Dustin Loew, Diophantus' Arithmetica

4. Eric Dornicik, Archimedes' computation of π

Week 6

(2/26-3/2)

1. Fallon Nugent, Geometry in ancient India

2. Hou Li, Indian method of finding square roots

3. Steven Lim, "Nine chapters" of Chinese mathematics

4. Marie Milach, Omar Khayyam

Week 7

(3/5-3/9)

1. Chris Arettines, Fibbonacci's "Liber Abaci"

2. Jim Hoffman, Development of the Fibbonacci series

Week 8

(3/12-3/16)

1. Molly Law, Galileo's study of the motion of projectiles

3. Melisa Bilgel, Descartes' work on roots of polynomials

4. Chris Wolf, Descartes' theory as basis of calculus

Week 9

(3/19-3/23)

1. Sean Ferguson, Newton's law of universal gravitation

2. Katherine Cruceta, Newton's use of binomial theorem

3. Anthony Rubbo, Leibniz's path to calculus

Week 10

(3/26-3/30)

1. Olga Boykova, Prehistory of probability

2. Camelia Medina, Bernoulli's work in probability

3. Suzan Bilgel, Laplace's inductive reasoning

4. Renee Goldfarb, "Student"'s statistics

Week 11

(4/9-4/13)

1. Casey Necheles, Fermat

2. Tom Ferretti, Fermat's and Euler's theorems

3. Loren Sanso, Gauss's work in modular arithmetic

4. Suren Grigoryan, Gauss and non-Euclidean geometry

Week 12

(4/16-4/20)

1. Stephen Mancuso, Cauchy on limits

2. Edward Cummings, Complex analysis

3. Konstantine Anastasakis, Fourier series

4. Solomon Bamiro, Karl Weierstrass

Week 13

(4/23-4/27)

1. Dan Stelmach, Matrix operations

3. James Lynch, Unsolvability of quintic equations

Week 14

(4/30-5/4)

1. Steve Mackey, Cardinal numbers

2. Keisuke Yoshii, Set theory and the axiom of choice