See final project instructions below.
Do log into Canvas and formulate project groups on your own.
Contact me if you need help. |
About the trig tables
and power series |
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Old (1898) book by Ball on Math.
History. Pdf, but it is also available as a free audio book on Librivox! Here is the TOC for easy lookup. |
Useful site to view original Greek manuscripts with translations Text of
Euclid’s Elements |
Some useful project resources Contents
of Sherlock Holmes’ … book Possibly useful for
projects History talks on bbc
(Sautoy) link |
Did
mathematics travel from Kerala to Europe? A
thought provoking essay. |
Chakravala aka Pell’s
equation Selenius’ paper giving the rationale |
Two papers about Euler History
of proof in ancient traditions Ed. Chemla K. |
Erdos
material |
Final
project instructions are here. |
Continued fractions |
Leibniz calculus correspondence |
A very interesting link
to browse. I strongly recommend it!!
1. A useful text about Mathematics in India.
2. The source
book for continued fractions by C. D. Olds
3. Essay on Brahmagupta’s Arithmetic
4. Essay on Brahmagupta’s Algebra
5. The
book of Al Khwarizmi
6. The Chronology of
Ancient Nations by Al Biruni
7. Links to Egyptian fractions: https://www.google.com/search?q=euclidean+fraction&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=egyptian+fraction
8. An interesting paper on the history
of CRT (kuṭṭaka)
9. Vedic Mathematics in 20th
century: An essay
10. A
Universal Divisibility Test by Swami Bharati
Krishna Tirtha
11.
Heath: Archimedes’ method
12.
Heath: History of Greek Mathematics Vol I, Vol II
13.
Bakshali
Manuscript (recently in the news)
14.
A
continued fraction for pi (Brouncker), a source for the main formula
15.
A paper by Landen illustrating
Newton’s notations. A note on it in modern
notation with explanation.
A link to my web site from Spring 2017. Updated file
links may be brought back to this page as needed.