MATH 338 History and Philosophy of Mathematics

3 credits · Mathematics and Statistics · Faculty of Science · Offered: Fall

Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Indian and Arab contributions to mathematics are studied together with some modern developments they give rise to, for example, the problem of trisecting the angle. European mathematics from the Renaissance to the 18th century is discussed, culminating in the discovery o…

Prerequisite courses: MATH 133, MATH 141

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