mat336 - presentation schedules

MAT 336 History of Mathematics
Spring 2006

* Index
* Course Description
* Syllabus
* Schedule of Presentations

Schedule of in-class student presentations

Presentations 1 and 2 on Monday, Presentations 3 and 4 on Friday.

Presentation topics must be relevant to the material covered that week, or in previous weeks.

Presentation topic will be the topic of Term Paper 1.

Make sure you discuss your presentation with the instructor at least one week in advance.

Week 1 (Jan 23) Primitive counting; Positional and non-positional number systems. Mayan calendars. Babylonian number recording.

Week 2 (Jan 30) The decoding of Plimpton 322. Signup for in-class presentation topics.

Week 3 (Feb 6) Egyptian number recording and Arithmetic.

Week 4 (Feb 13) Thales and Pythagoras; Euclid.

Week 5 (Feb 20) Euclid and Archimedes.

Week 6 (Feb 27) Arab, Indian and Chinese mathematics during the "dark ages."

Presentation 1 Lok Yee Nice Wu

Presentation 2 Christopher Curtin

Presentation 3 Stephen Foran

Presentation 4 Christopher Hanford

Week 7 (Mar 6) Fibonacci; Cardano and Tartaglia.

Presentation 1 Eric Hartill

Presentation 2 John Hughes

Presentation 3 Bethany Maher

Presentation 4 Diandra Samaroo

Week 8 (Mar 13) Galileo and Descartes.

Presentation 1 Michael Cento

Presentation 2 Keith Godlewski

Presentation 3 Jacqueline Hsieh

Presentation 4 Jane Varughese

Week 9 (Mar 20) Newton and Leibnitz.

Presentation 1 Jason Englert

Presentation 2

Presentation 3 Lei Wang

Presentation 4 Debra Wertz

Week 10 (Mar 27) Probability: Pascal to Laplace.

Presentation 1 Tara Bennett

Presentation 2 Errica Samuel

Presentation 3 Emrah Gulden

Presentation 4 Scott Votke

Week 11 (Apr 3) Euler and the Bernoullis.

Presentation 1 Christopher Scapellati

Presentation 2 Meredith De Felice

Presentation 3 Itamar Gal

Presentation 4 Brian Hachmann

Week 12 (Apr 17) Gauss, Bolyai and Lobachevsky.

Presentation 1 Sharon Van Acker

Presentation 2 Jeremy Lauber

Presentation 3 David Michal

Presentation 4 Roseline Paraisy

Week 13 (Apr 24) Cantor and the infinite.

Presentation 1 Minyun Huang

Presentation 2 Constantine Panoussis

Presentation 3 Chris Papachristophorou

Presentation 4 Joshua Stamos

Week 14 (May 1) Review

Presentation 1 Tina Melendez

Presentation 2

Presentation 3

Presentation 4


Tony Phillips
April 3 2006