History of Mathematics

4.0 credits

The nature and style of mathematics in ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece; medieval and Renaissance Europe; seventeenth-century Europe; and some aspects of the development of abstraction and rigor in analysis and set theory since 1700. This course has a limited number of seats. Students that need an upper-level writing course in mathematics can explore the alternatives of MATH 200W or MATH 391W. See the Math Department website for more information.