MATH 4030

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MATH 4030
History of Mathematics

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Development of mathematics from Babylon and Egypt and the Golden Age of Greece through its nineteenth century renaissance in the Paris of Cauchy and Lagrange and the Berlin of Weierstrass and Riemann. Covers basic algorithms underlying algebra, analysis, number theory, and geometry in historical order. Theorems and exercises cover the impossibility of duplicating cubes and trisecting angles, which regular polygons can be constructed by ruler and compass, the impossibility of solving the general fifth degree algebraic equation by radicals, the transcendence of pi. Students give presentations from original sources over 5000 years of mathematics.


Prerequisites two mathematics courses above 3000, or permission of instructor.

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Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2022SP, 2019FA

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6196 MATH 4030   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Nerode, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  6197 MATH 4030   IND 601

  •  
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Nerode, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies