With few exceptions, files are in PDF format.

Course Materials

• Syllabus
• Selected Articles on the History of Mathematics (with assignments)
• Selected Articles on Mathematicians of the 20th Century (with assignments)
• Representation in Different Bases
• Plimpton 322 (expanded and corrected? Version 1)
• Plimpton 322 (expanded and corrected? Version 2)
• An Extract from the Rhind Papyrus
• Mathematical Induction “Proofs”
• Quadratic Equations in the “Greek” Style
• Rational points on the unit circle.
• The Euclidean Algorithms, Continued Fractions and Irrational Numbers
• Topics for Test 1
• Graphical Solution of Cubics
• The Fibonacci Numbers
• What’s Wrong Here?
• Multiplication using the sine function
• Multiplication using Napierian logarithms
• Quadrature of the Parabola

Problem Sets

• Problem Set 1
• Selected Solutions - Problem Set 1
• Problem Set 2
• Selected Solutions - Problem Set 2
• Problem Set 3
• Selected Solutions - Problem Set 3
• Problem Set 4
• Selected Solutions - Problem Set 4
• Problem Set 5
• Selected Solutions - Problem Set 5
• Problem Set 6
• Selected Solutions - Problem Set 6
• Problem Set 7
• Selected Solutions - Problem Set 7
• Problem Set 8
• Selected Solutions - Problem Set 8
• Problem Set 9
• Selected Solutions - Problem Set 9
• Problem Set 10
• Selected Solutions - Problem Set 10
• Problem Set 11

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