Math 300, Spring 2009
Meetings
Follow links to lecture outlines
Tuesdays | Thursdays |
Jan 27 Syllabus, introduction | Jan 29 Struik introduction, Peano in Cuneo |
Feb 3 Grading, term paper topics, Struik 1, frustra | Feb 5 Add deadl. Struik 2, sums of reciprocals, Newton meth. |
Feb 10 Quiz prep, Struik 3, axiomatics | Feb 12 Accuracy, Wikipedia, Euclid |
Feb 17 Quiz 1. Journals, Euclid | Feb 19 Paper 1 topic due, drop deadl. Debrief quiz. Parallels. |
Feb 24 Euclid's and Playfair's parallel postulates. Area. | Feb 26 Area and Pythagoras' theorem. Irrationality. Volume. |
Mar 3 Paper guidelines. Volume. Struik 3. | Mar 5 Regular polyhedra, late Greeks. |
Mar 10 Struik 3, concluded; Struik 4 | Mar 12 Struik 5 |
Mar 17 Quiz 2. Perspective. Struik 5. | Mar 19 Paper 1 due; CR/NCR deadline. Struik 5,6. |
Spring recess | |
Mar 31 Holiday | Apr 1 Paper 1 debriefing. Struik 6. Kepler, Cavalieri. |
Apr 7 Struik 6. Descartes, curves. | Apr 9 Struik 6. Pascal, Newton. |
Apr 14 Struik 6, 7. Newton, Leibniz, Euler | Apr 16 Paper topic 2 due. European universities |
Apr 21 Quiz 3. Italian universities. Struik 7. | Apr 23 Struik 7. W deadline |
Apr 28 Kennedy 2, Struik 8.6, 8.12 | Apr 30 Struik 8.1-8.4 Gauss, Legendre |
May 5 Struik 8.7. Gauss, Cauchy | May 7 Struik 8 Riemann, Dedekind. Kennedy 3 |
May 12 Kennedy 4. | May 14 Kennedy 4: arithmetic. Struik 8: Hilbert. Paper 2 due. |
May 21 10:45-13:15 Quiz 4 and student reports |
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