Date		Day	#	Topic
Aug	24	R		Introduction
	29	T	D1*	Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics
	31	R	D2,S1	Face to Face Class Cancelled Greek Geometry/Thales and the Pythagoreans
Sep	4	M		Labor Day
	5	T	S2	Euclid's Elements/Hippocrates' Quadrature of the Lune/Conics
	7	R	D3,S3	Appolonius/Pappas//Euclidean Algorithm/Pell's Eqn
	12	T	D4	Eudoxus and Archimedes - Areas/Volumes/Pi
	14	R	D5,S4	Eratosthense/Heron's Formula/Chinese-Japanese Mathematics
	19	T	S5	Numbers and Algebra in Asia and the Middle East
	21	R	D6, S6	Solutions of Polynomial Equations:: The Cubic
	26	T		Cardano, Ferrari, Tartaglia, Viete, Bombelli
Oct	28	R	S7	Analytic Geometry/Descartes, Pascal, Fermat
	3	T		Exam I
	5	R	S8	Projective Geometry/Desargues
	10	T	S9	Birth of Calculus/Cavalieri and Wallis
	12	R		Break
	13	F		Break
	17	T	D7	Tangents and Maxima/Newton, Leibniz
	19	R	D8, S10	Infinite series/ Bernoulli (Notes: S13.8), Euler/Basel Problem
	24	T	D9	Euler's Formula -Rectification of Ellipse and Lemniscate
	26	R	S12	Elliptic Functions/AGM
	31	T	S14	Complex Analysis
Nov	2	R	S15	Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Cubic curves
	7	T	S16	Geometry of Complex Plane/Stereographic Projection
	9	R		Women in 19th Century Mathematics
	14	T	S18	Non-Euclidean Geometry
	16	R	D11-12, S19	Genesis of Group Theory
	21	T		Exam II
	22	W		Thanksgiving
	23	R		Thanksgiving
	24	F		Thanksgiving
	28	T	S22	Topology
	30	R	S24	Set Theory and Logic
Dec	5	T		Epilogue - Mathematics in the 1900's
	14	T		Final Spot - 8:00 AM

 

The readings reference one of two texts.
             D for Dunham, W., Journey through Genius, Penguin Books, 1990.                           
             S for Stillwell, J., Mathematics and Its History, 3rd Ed., Spring, 2010.
Other readings will be noted on the Assignment page.