MATH 4030 - History of Mathematics

(HB) (MQR)

Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: two mathematics courses above 3000, or permission of instructor. Offered alternate years.

Staff.

Survey of the development of mathematics from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on the achievements, problems, and mathematical viewpoints of each historical period and the evolution of such basic concepts as number, geometry, construction, and proof.