Date		Day	#	Topic
Aug	21	R		Introduction
	26	T	D1*	Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics
	29	R	D2,S1	Greek Geometry/Thales and the Pythagoreans
Sep	1	M		Labor Day
	2	T	S2	Euclid's Elements/Hippocrates' Quadrature of the Lune/Conics
	4	R	D3,S3	Appolonius/Pappas//Euclidean Algorithm/Pell's Eqn
	9	T	D4	Eudoxus and Archimedes - Areas/Volumes/Pi
	11	R	D5,S4	Eratosthense/Heron's Formula/Chinese-Japanese Mathematics
	16	T	S5	Numbers and Algebra in Asia and the Middle East
	18	R	D6, S6	Solutions of Polynomial Equations:: The Cubic
	23	T		Cardano, Ferrari, Tartaglia, Viete, Bombelli
	25	R	S7	Analytic Geometry/Descartes, Pascal, Fermat
	30	T		Exam I
Oct	2	R	S8	Projective Geometry/Desargues
	7	T	S9	Birth of Calculus/Cavalieri and Wallis
	9	R		Break
	10	F		Break
	14	T	D7	Tangents and Maxima/Newton, Leibniz
	16	R	D8, S10	Infinite series/ Bernoulli (Notes: S13.8), Euler/Basel Problem
	21	T	D9	Euler's Formula -Rectification of Ellipse and Lemniscate
	23	R	S12	Elliptic Functions/AGM
	28	T	S14	Complex Analysis
	30	R	S15	Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Cubic curves
Nov	4	T	S16	Geometry of Complex Plane/Stereographic Projection
	6	R		Women in 19th Century Mathematics
	11	T	S18	Non-Euclidean Geometry
	13	R	D11-12, S19	Genesis of Group Theory
	18	T		Exam II
	20	R	S22	Topology
	25	T	S24	Set Theory and Logic
	26	W		Thanksgiving
	27	R		Thanksgiving
	28	F		Thanksgiving
Dec	2	T		Epilogue - Mathematics in the 1900's
	11	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.