MHF 4404 — History of Mathematics
Topics include: Counting Methods (Egyptian Babylonian), the Pythagoreans, Euclid, the Alexandrian School, Roman Mathematics, Indian Mathematics, Arabic Mathematics, Descartes, Pascal, the Calculus Controversy, Newton's Principia, the development of probability theory, the development of number theory, Euler, Gauss, moving toward a rigorous set of axioms for mathematics, Hilbert's unsolved problems, non-Euclidean geometries and modern topics in Mathematics.