Math 184 - History of Mathematics (Spring '25)
Course Notes
- Egyptian Mathematics (pdf) (html)
- Babylonian/Mesopotamian Mathematics (pdf) (html)
- Greek Mathematics (pdf) (html)
- Astronomy (pdf) (html)
- Chinese & East Asian Mathematics (pdf) (html)
- Indian & Islamic Mathematics (pdf) (html)
- Europe and the Renaissance (pdf) (html)
- Analytic Geometry and Calculus (pdf) (html)
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