CO 488History of Mathematics 2
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1980–81
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1979–80 to 1980–81; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
A study of selected topics from post-renaissance mathematics. Topics include material on prime numbers, Fermat’s Last Theorem, the Gaussian Integers, the Fibonacci Sequence, other topics form elementary number theory, a collection of outstanding problems in geometry (Fagnano, Steiner- Lehmus, Morley). (C & O 446b)
As printed in the 1979–80 to 1980–81 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: None
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1979–80 to 1980–81, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1979–80 to 1980–81 2 calendars
A study of selected topics from post-renaissance mathematics. Topics include material on prime numbers, Fermat’s Last Theorem, the Gaussian Integers, the Fibonacci Sequence, other topics form elementary number theory, a collection of outstanding problems in geometry (Fagnano, Steiner- Lehmus, Morley).
(C & O 446b)
Prereq: None
Offered Winter · 2 class hours a week · 0.5 credit