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History of mathematics MAT3500
Course content:
1. On various methods of counting in different parts of the world and different periods.
2. On mathematicians and mathematics in ancient Greece.
3. Mathematics outside Europe (China, India, Arabian countries).
4. Mathematics in the early Renaisance.
5. Whether Copernicus had a wife, how did he count money and how did he move the Earth? What did Galileo and others think about it.
6. Who did Fermat sentence to death? Why did Newton quarelled with Hook and Leibniz - mathematicians and mathematics in XVII-th century.
7. Were there princes among outstanding mathematicians - mathematics in XIX-th century.
8. A lecture on foundations of mathematics.
9. Autstanding polish mathematicians and their contribution to developement of mathematics.
Learning outcomes: To gain knowledge about the most important mathematical ideas and discoveries, its chronology and about contribution of autstanding mathematicians to developement of mathematics.
(in Polish) Rodzaj przedmiotu
Course coordinators
Bibliography
a) basic references:
1. Carl B. Boyer, Uta Merzbach A history of mathematics, John Wiley & Sons, New York 1991.
2. Marek Kordos, Wykłady z historii matematyki, Script, Warszawa 2005
3. John D. Barrow, Pi in the sky, counting, thinking and being, Oxford University Press, 1991
b) supplementary references:
1. Frank E. Manuel, A portreit of Izaac Newton,
2. James Reston, Jr., Galileo. A life, HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1994.
3. Simon Singh, Fermats Enigma. The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem, 1977.
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