<p>Rub shoulders with towering mathematical geniuses of history in this fun and compelling course that takes you inside the mechanics of some of math's greatest and most awe-inspiring achievements.</p>
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Theorems as Masterpieces
- 02: Mathematics before Euclid
- 03: The Greatest Mathematics Book of All
- 04: Euclid's Elements-Triangles and Polygons
- 05: Number Theory in Euclid
- 06: The Life and Works of Archimedes
- 07: Archimedes' Determination of Circular Area
- 08: Heron's Formula for Triangular Area
- 09: Al-Khwarizmi and Islamic Mathematics
- 10: A Horatio Algebra Story
- 11: To the Cubic and Beyond
- 12: The Heroic Century
- 13: The Legacy of Newton
- 14: Newton's Infinite Series
- 15: Newton's Proof of Heron's Formula
- 16: The Legacy of Leibniz
- 17: The Bernoullis and the Calculus Wars
- 18: Euler, the Master
- 19: Euler's Extraordinary Sum
- 20: Euler and the Partitioning of Numbers
- 21: Gauss-the Prince of Mathematicians
- 22: The 19th Century-Rigor and Liberation
- 23: Cantor and the Infinite
- 24: Beyond the Infinite
Taught by
William Dunham
