MAT 336 History of Mathematics
Spring 2006
Index Course Description Syllabus Schedule of Presentations |
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MAT 336 History of Mathematics
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Index Course Description Syllabus Schedule of Presentations |
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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.
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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