| Date | Reading | Assignment |
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| Prehistorical Mathematics | | |
| 8/23 | No reading, first day of class | |
| Egyptian Mathematics | | |
| 8/25 | Crest of the Peacock, Ch 3, pp 79-100 | |
| 8/27 | Crest of the Peacock, Ch 3, pp 100-109, 119-122 | Essay 1 |
| Mesopotamian Mathematics | | |
| 8/30 | Crest of the Peacock, Ch 4, pp 125-144 | |
| 9/1 | Words and Pictures: New Light on Plimpton 322 | |
| 9/3 | No reading | Assignment 1 |
| 9/6 | NO CLASS - LABOR DAY | |
| Greek Mathematics | | |
| 9/8 | Journey Through Genius, Ch 1, pp 1-11 | |
| 9/10 | Journey Through Genius, Ch 1, pp 11-20 | Essay 2 |
| 9/13 | Shape, Ch 2, pp 9-32 | |
| 9/15 | Euclid's Elements, Book I, Definitions I.1-I.23, Postulates I.1-I.5, Common Notions I.1-I.5, Proposition I.1, Proposition I.5, Proposition I.29 | |
| 9/17 | Euclid's Elements, Book I, Proposition I.32, Proposition I.41, Proposition I.47 | Assignment 2 |
| 9/20 | Euclid's Elements, Books VII and IX, Proposition VII.31, Proposition IX.14, Proposition IX.20 | |
| 9/22 | Archimedes of Syracuse | |
| 9/24 | Archimedes on the Circumference and Area of a Circle | Essay 3 |
| Medieval Islamic Mathematics | | |
| 9/27 | Episodes in the Mathematics of Ancient Islam, Ch 1, pp 7-10, 13-16, 31-33 | |
| 9/29 | Episodes in the Mathematics of Ancient Islam, Ch 4, pp 124-126, 146-150 | |
| 10/1 | Episodes in the Mathematics of Ancient Islam, Ch 7, pp 223-224 | Assignment 3 |
| 10/4 | No reading | |
| Early Renaissance Mathematics | | |
| 10/6 | Journey Through Genius, Ch 6, pp 133-147 | |
| 10/8 | Journey Through Genius, Ch 6, pp 147-154 | Essay 4 |
| Origins of Calculus | | |
| 10/11 | NO CLASS
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| 10/13 | A Brief History of Time, pp 181-182, God Created the Integers, pp 365-373 | |
| 10/15 | Newton's Method of Fluxions, pp 94-95, parts 47, 48, 49 | Assignment 4 |
| 10/18 | Philosophers at War, Ch1, pp 1-9 | |
| 10/20 | The Correspondence of Bernoulli and L'Hoptial pp 7-10 | |
| 10/22 | The Bernoullis and the Harmonic Series | Essay 5 |
| 10/25 | NO CLASS - FALL BREAK | |
| Late Modern Period Mathematics | | |
| 10/27 | God Created the Integers, pp 383-387 | |
| 10/29 | God Created the Integers, pp 388-392 | Assignment 5 |
| 11/1 | God Created the Integers, pp 591-593 | |
| 11/3 | God Created the Integers, pp 593-598 | |
| 11/5 | God Created the Integers, pp 697-703 | Assignment 6 |
| 11/8 | God Created the Integers, pp 743-749 | |
| 11/10 | The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - The Origin, Wolfram's blog post from the top through "What Ada Actually Wrote" | |
| 11/12 | Jacquard's Web, pp 1-5, Wolfram's blog post from "What Ada Actually Wrote" to the end | Assignment 7 |
| Twentieth Century Mathematics | | |
| 11/15 | David Hilbert, Wikipedia page on Hilbert's 23 Problems | |
| 11/17 | Mathematicians Under the Nazis, Ch 3, pp 42-65 | |
| 11/19 | Mathematicians Under the Nazis, Ch 3, pp 65-84 | Essay 6 |
| 11/22 | Mathematicians Under the Nazis, pp 125-127 (Landau), 442-450 (Teichmuller), 455-461 (Hausdorff), 477-480 (Kahler) | |
| 11/24 | NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING | |
| 11/26 | NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING | |
| 11/29 | Refugee Mathematicians in the United States of America, 1933-1941 | |
| 12/1 | AWM Newsletter on Emmy Noether, pp 1-9 | |
| 12/3 | Alan Turing - A Short Biography, Yours in Distress, Alan | Essay 7 |
| 12/6 | How Julia Robinson Helped Define the Limits of Mathematical Knowledge | |
| 12/8 | No reading
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