Course Title:	Topics: History of Mathematics
Course Number:	MATH 3010 - 001
Instructor:	Andrejs Treibergs
Home Page:	http://www.math.utah.edu/~treiberg/M3013.html
Place & Time:	M, W, F  11:50 am - 12:40 pm in LCB 225
Office Hours:	10:45 - 11:35 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:	David Burton, History of Mathematics: An Introduction 7th ed., McGraw Hill 2010.
	ISBN-10: 0073383155, ISBN-13: 978-0073383156
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. It will develop mathematical ideas and put them in historical context. As it is a writing intensive course, you will be writing 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:

• Pythagoras and Greek Geometry.
• Greek Number Theory.
• Number Theory in India and China.
• Polynomial Equations
• Analytic Geometry.
• Projective Geometry
• Calculus & Infinite Series.
• Fermat, Abel & Jacobi.
• Mechanics.
• Complex Numbers.
• Differential Geometry.
• Group Theory.
• Algebraic Geometry.
• Topology.
• Logic and Combinatorics.

Last updated: 8 / 14 / 24