Course Title:	Topics: History of Mathematics
Course Number:	MATH 3010 - 001
Instructor:	Andrejs Treibergs
Home Page:	http://www.math.utah.edu/~treiberg/M3014.html
Place & Time:	M, W, F  2:00 - 2:50 pm in JTB 120
Office Hours:	11:45 AM - 12:35 PM M, W, F in JWB 224 (tent.)
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Prerequisites:	"C" or better in (MATH 1210 OR 1215 OR 1220 OR 1250 OR 1270 OR 1310 OR 1311 OR 1320 OR 1321 OR 2210 OR 2310) OR AP Calculus AB score of 4+ OR AP Calculus BC score of 3+ OR IB Math score of 5+.
Requirement Designation:	Upper Division Communication/Writing
Text:	Victor J. Katz, A History of Mathematics, 3rd ed., Pearson India 2019.
	ISBN: 978-93-534-3300-0 Available via Inclusive Access (Bookshelf tab in Canvas)
Other Texts:	Alternative Texts for a History of Mathematics Course

Math 3010 - 1 Syllabus, pdf.

Math 3010 - 1 Homework

Supplementary Material, Solutions to Tests

In this one semester course in the history of mathematics. We follow mathematical ideas as they developed and put them into historical context. As it is a writing intensive course, you will be writing weekly homework and three term papers on different periods of mathematics history. We will follow the text and try to cover as many topics as time allows.

Topics:

• Mathematics of Egypt and Mesopotamia
• Pythagoras and Greek Geometry.
• Greek Number Theory.
• Number Theory in India and China.
• Mathenatics in the Islamic World
• Mathematics from Europe
• Polynomial Equations
• Analytic Geometry.
• Projective Geometry
• Calculus & Infinite Series.
• Fermat, Abel & Jacobi.
• Mechanics.
• Complex Numbers.
• Differential Geometry.

Last updated: 12 / 25 / 24