Math 406 Assignments
Most assignments refer to documents which can be found on the ERes site
associated with this class, in one of the folders. Homework assignments
contains list of assignments to be handed in. Electronic documents created
by the library are in the folder "Related Documents"---I abbreviate this RD
below. Handouts from class may be in either the "Related Documents", or,
if the library did not create scans (i.e. my own pdf's) then in "In-Class
Handouts", which I abbreviate ICH. Other abbreviations mostly to books
on
reserve at Mansfield Library |
are: TESIA The Exact Sciences in Antiquity EMCIIThe Mathematics
of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India and Islam
- Preliminaries
- Mathematical Typography (in ICH)
- Textbooks
and Sourcebooks (in ICH)
- Donald Knuth Mathematical
Typography: Optional supplementary reading. The
- this is the written version of the 1979 Josiah Willard Gibbs
lecture
- Babylonian Mathematics
- Neugebauer, from TESIA
p 29-42 (or, if using N's sections, 15-21), in RD
- Eleanor Robson, from Katz EMCII: 1-11
- Eleanor Robson
New Light on Plimpton 322: Optional supplementary reading; in RD
- Robert Young Pythagorean Triangles p. 41-47
- from Excursions in Calculus: an interplay of
the continuous and the discrete. Showing that
pythagorean triples correspond to rational points on
the circle.
- Three Problems from the Tables (ICH) from Fauvel
and Gray Readings in Mathematics
- Egyptian Mathematics
- Annette Imhausen, from EMCII, Preliminary
remarks and Section I (p. 7-16). Optional extra reading
would be Section II, also included in the pdf.
- Egyptian Multiplication (second part, on "How a computer
multiplies" is Optional), in ICH.
- Problems on Mesopotamia and Egypt. due 2/10. (ERes Homework problems
folder)
- Greek Mathematics
- Timeline (ICH)
- Plato The Analogy of the Cave (tr.
Cornfeld). In-class handout, not scanned
- Plato from the Meno Socrates and the slave
boy --from Fauvel and Gray (61-67) in RD.
- Problem Set #2 On Eres. Problem #7 is separate.