Math 184 - History of Mathematics (Spring '26)
Course Notes
- Egyptian Mathematics (pdf)
- Babylonian/Mesopotamian Mathematics (pdf)
- Greek Mathematics (pdf)
- Astronomy and the Birth of Trigonometry(pdf)
- Chinese & East Asian Mathematics (pdf)
- Indian & Islamic Mathematics (pdf)
- Europe and the Renaissance (pdf) --- to end week 7
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