MATH 401Assignments Fall, 2011

Draft- Work in progress!

Reading Assignment: Each student will be expected to read a short article / note / or web page about the history of mathematics and make brief written summaries/reports of these to be passed on alternate Mondays, beginning Monday, TBA. [These will be graded Honors(4)/Good(3)/Acceptable(2)/NCr(0). Be sure to include an appropriate citation.]

Weekly assignments will be due on Wednesdays.  [These will be graded on a problem by problem basis.]
Some problems may be assigned but not numerically grade.

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TEXTS:  History of Mathematics: Brief Version by Victor Katz (Addison-Wesley Longman, Inc., 2004)
Classics of Mathematics, edited by Ron Calinger (Prentice Hall, 1995).

Subject to change. Last updated: 10-14-11 This is a new schedule
Week 
[Major theme]		 Monday Friday
problem work session
 Reading
 Problems 
Due the next week
1 [Beginnings]


Sarton on the Discipline: The History of Math (pdf)
View the following lecture on line with the following direct link:
Robin Wilson: Who invented the equals sign?


2 Greek POM
and Revival of Greeks
Eudoxus/Euclid
Oresme
 8-29
 9-2
 K: 2.1, 8.4
C: Plato:63-70
Aristotle 81-90;
Oresme 253-260
 K: 8.20, 25
Research #1
3
9-5
No Class
Labor Day
 9-9
 Watch Euclid Video on Moodle.

4 

9-12
 9-16
 K:2.2 (Euclid) ; 9.1.1-9.1.3 (Cardano); 9.3.1(Stevin); 9.4.3 Galileo
C: Cardano: 261-266; 
Stevin: 273- 280;



K:9.1, 3,5, 14, 17,18, *(37-40)
Research #2
5 9-19
 9-23
 This reading is for two weeks!
C Eudoxus /Euclid: 74-80;
Reread Aristotle 81-90;
Euclid: 109-130
Viete:267-272
Napier:281- 289
K: 2.2 Euclid (Again!) 9.1.5 Viete 9.3.1 and 2 stevin & Logarithms
 K: 2. 3-7; 9,10, 13,14; 18,19
6 9-26
 9-30
 Continue with reading. K:9: 22; 34 ; ch 2. 21, ( 22,23)
Preliminary outline from groups on what they are planning for presentations on notations.
7 10-3
 10-7
 Continue with reading.
8 10-10
 10-14
 C : Euclid: 79-80; 125-130;
Archimedes: 133-147
Kepler:356-360
Galileo: 363-374
K: 2.2.6 Euclid (Again!) 3.1 Archimedes 9.4.3 Galileo


 K: 2.25, 26, 27 ;  3.3, 4, 5 , 8,13 ;   9: 26,37,38
9 10-17
 10-21
Preliminary report on term paper.
10 10-24
 10-28
11 10-31
 11-4
 K: 9.4.2 Kepler;  10.1; 10.2
C: Fermat:377-380
 K: 3.10;   10.2, 5, 8
12 11-7
 11-11 no class

13 11-14
 11-18

14Fall Break 11-21 no class 11-25 no class

15 11-28
 12-2

16 12-5
 12-9

17 Final exam week
 no class 12-16 Projects
 Final Project Presentations during 2 hour Final exam time
8:00 or 12:30 TBA