History of Mathematics II: Early Modern Period

Subject:

Mathematics (MATH)

Catalog number:

683

Unit weight:

0.50

Meet type:

LEC

Grading basis:

NUM

Cross-listing(s):

N/A

Requisites:

Coreq: MATH 600, 692Only offered Online

Description:

This course examines the history of mathematics through the prism of a particular person working on a particular problem in a particular geographical and temporal place. Topics may include: Durer and projective geometry; Cardano and the solution of quartics; Fermat and probability; Descartes and analytic geometry; and Kepler and planetary motion.

Topic titles:

N/A

Faculty:

Mathematics (MAT)

Academic level:

GRD

Course ID:

016115