Math 184 - History of Mathematics (Spring '24)
Course Notes
- Egypt (pdf) (html)
- Babylon (pdf) (html)
- Greece (pdf) (html)
- Astronomy (pdf) (html)
- China (pdf) (html)
- Indian & Islamic Mathematics (pdf) (html)
- Europe and the Renaissance (pdf) (html)
- Analytic Geometry and Calculus (pdf) (html)
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