MTHE 536 - History of Mathematics

Credit(s): 3
3 semester hours
This course explores the history of mathematics tracing the contributions made by various cultures to the growth and development of mathematical ideas. Chronologically and topically, mathematics concepts are studied from their recorded beginnings in Egypt and Mesopotamia, Greece, ancient and medieval China, India, Islam to early modern mathematics in Renaissance Europe. It reveals how the developments in mathematics have shaped the cultures that devised them. Fall only