Historical Development of Mathematics - Math 529-71

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Spring, 2005

 

 

 

 

Week

Date

Plans

1

26-Jan

Snow day

2

2-Feb

Introduction, syllabus, journal, rules, etc.

In-class Poster Quiz 

3

9-Feb

Read Dunham ch 6 - Cardano

Read Katz ch 9 - Renaissance algebra

WebCT Poster Quiz

4

16-Feb

Read Dunham ch 7 - Newton

5

23-Feb

Read Dunham ch 8 - Bernoulli

6

2-Mar

Read Dunham ch 9 - Euler's series

7

9-Mar

Poster project due

Read Dunham ch 10 - Euler's number theory

8

16-Mar

Read Dunham ch 11- Cantor part 1

 

23-Mar

Spring break

9

30-Mar

Old book project due

Read Dunham ch 12 - Cantor part 2

10

6-Apr

Read Dunham ch 1 - Hippocrates

11

13-Apr

Read Dunham ch 2 - Pythagorean theorem

12

20-Apr

Read Dunham ch 3 - Euclid and primes

13

27-Apr

Read Dunham ch 4 - Archimedes

14

4-May

Read Dunham ch 5 - Heron

Project presentations

Hand in written project

Carla, Sara, Scott, Anthony

15

11-May

Project presentations

Seb, Cindy, Elias, Nick, Chen

Melissa

16

18-May

Final exam

 

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