Date		Day	#	Topic
Aug	20	R		Introduction
	25	T	D1*	Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics
	27	R	D2,S1	Greek Geometry/Thales and the Pythagoreans
	1	T	S2	Euclid's Elements/Hippocrates' Quadrature of the Lune/Conics
	3	R	D3,S3	Appolonius/Pappas//Euclidean Algorithm/Pell's Eqn
Sep	7	M		Labor Day
	8	T	D4	Eudoxus and Archimedes - Areas/Volumes/Pi
	9	R	D5,S4	Eratosthense/Heron's Formula/Chinese-Japanese Mathematics
	15	T		Numbers and Algebra in Asia and the Middle East
	17	R	D6, S5	Solutions of Polynomial Equations:: The Cubic
	22	T		Cardano, Ferrari, Tartaglia, Viete, Bombelli
	24	R	S6	Analytic Geometry/Descartes, Pascal, Fermat
	29	T		Exam I
Oct	1	R	S7	Projective Geometry/Desargues
	6	T	S8	Birth of Calculus/Cavalieri and Wallis
	8	R		Break
	9	F		Break
	13	T	D7	Tangents and Maxima/Newton, Leibniz
	15	R	D8, S9	Infinite series/ Bernoulli (Notes: S13.8), Euler/Basel Problem
	20	T	D9	Euler's Formula -Rectification of Ellipse and Lemniscate
	22	R	S10	Elliptic Functions/AGM
	27	T	S11	Complex Analysis
	29	R		Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Cubic curves
Nov	3	T		Geometry of Complex Plane/Stereographic Projection
	5	R		Women in 19th Century Mathematics
	10	T	S13	Non-Euclidean Geometry
	12	R	D11-12, S14	Genesis of Group Theory
	17	T		Exam II
	19	R	S15	Topology
	24	T	S17	Set Theory and Logic
	25	W		Thanksgiving
	26	R		Thanksgiving
	27	F		Thanksgiving
Dec	1	T		Epilogue - Mathematics in the 1900's
	10	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: A Concise Edition, Springer, 2020.
Other readings will be noted on the Assignment page.