398. Experimental Courses
History of Math
This class is a mathematics class that devotes considerable attention to how certain mathematical ideas and selected mathematicians related to the history of humankind. We will not only learn about the great and near great mathematicians, but we will devote considerable attention to selected important mathematical ideas in addition to their relationship to the culture of the times and of the future. Most of the mathematics content will come from the mathematics that proceeded the Middle Ages; however, we will make forays into selected mathematical ideas that are currently receiving research attention.
