MATH 7820 - Historical and Cultural Development of Mathematics I

3 Credit Hours
Description
Exploration of the historical and cultural development of mathematics between 3000 B.C. and 1600 A.D. Mathematics topics to include the development of arithmetic, geometry (practical, deductive, and axiomatic), number theory, trigonometry, syncopated and symbolic algebra, probability, and statistics. This course is for high school mathematics teachers in the M.A.T. or M.Ed. programs who have had a full sequence of calculus courses and a first course in linear algebra. Three lecture hours a week.