Overview
Description
This course examines the development of mathematics across history, from the beginning of numeral systems to the emergence of geometry, algebra, calculus and culminating in the rigorous mathematics of the 19th century.
Requirements
Units
Lecture3
Learning Outcomes
- use the university library to research a topic and write up a report or make a poster.
- contrast the Greek’s attitude to mathematics with that of earlier civilizations.
- relate the events leading to algebraic solutions of cubic equations in sixteenth Italy.
- discuss the work of Robert Recorde, Thomas Harriot and John Napier in the circumstances of the time.