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May 30, 2025
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Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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MAT 336 - History of Mathematics
A survey of the history of mathematics from the beginnings through the 19th century, with special attention to primary sources and to the interactions between culture and mathematics. Emphasis on topics germane to the high school curriculum. Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greek mathematics; non-European mathematics; early Renaissance mathematics; the birth and flowering of calculus; the beginnings of probability theory; and the origin of non-Euclidean geometries and the modern concept of number.
3 credits
Prerequisite(s): MAT 200 or MAT 203 or or MAT 250 or MAT 307 or AMS 261
DEC: H
SBC: SPK, STAS, WRTD
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