MATH 683History of Mathematics II: Early Modern Period
- Units
- 0.50
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Subject
- Mathematics
MATH 683 as listed in the Winter 2025 Graduate Calendar. The main page has the current version, when it runs, and seats.
This course examines the history of mathematics through the prism of a particular person working on a particular problem in a particular geographical and temporal place. Topics may include: Durer and projective geometry; Cardano and the solution of quartics; Fermat and probability; Descartes and analytic geometry; and Kepler and planetary motion.
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