MTP (0148) 656 - History of Mathematics

Credits: 3.00

Babylonian mathematics and the sexagesimal number system. Greek mathematics from Thales, Pythagoras, and Euclid to Archimedes and Ptolemy. Fibonacci and the Medieval period. Cardan and Tartaglia and the solution of the cubic equation. Newton and Leibniz and the creation of calculus.

Prerequisite 1: MTH 142 Prerequisite 2: MTH 253