Time period  1700 to 1900.   Chapters 19 to 29 of Boyer.

1.   A particular Mathematician and his (or her) contribution to mathematics.

2.   The history of some interesting mathematical controversy:  Example, the Leibnitz-Newton fight over who invented calculus.

3.   Investigate some question about the history of calculus:  Example,  who first knew sin' = cos?

4.   Trace the history of some question whose study has had a large impact on the development of mathematics:  Example,  the angle trisection problem.

This project is to be done individually.    As before, the project is to be prepared in a Maple worksheet.     It  will include text, Maple calculations, and Maple graphics.  The inline mathematics will be formatted.   Come to my office for a tutorial on formatting mathematical text. It must be at least 4 pages (check with print preview) with the font set at 12 point Times New Roman and the output removed.
Your project should have a title and author at the top.   Don't make a title page.  Include references you used in your project at the bottom.  Your bibliography must have at least two references (your text and one other source).
 

Choose two topics and email them to me by tax time (4/15).   Final version due Friday before dead week, but will be gratefully accepted before.   Dead week will be devoted to deciding what to put on the final and presentations of projects.

Project Assignments as of  4/16

Clark History of Polar Coordinates     Oberg   Arthur Cayley's contributions to matrices
Mielec History of Matrices up to Cayley  Bailey   Euler's work in number theory.
Meece  The Poincare model for the hyperbolic plane. Williamson  Sophie Germain's mathematics  Attig  L. Carnot Brown  The history of Rolle's theorem and others  Ard  Legendre's law of quadratic reciprocity Rakes  Newton's classification of the cubic.    Overby  Poincare's classification of surfaces.    Schorer  Kronecker's shameful treatment of Cantor, and Cantor's posthumous revenge. Damron  Felix Klein's Erlanger Program
Whitt - Sylvester's  centroid theorem.  Reed  The Bernoulli brood's contributions to mathematics  Mattingly George Boole and the algebra of logic  Conger  D'Alembert
Shoot  Probability in Laplace's time and  Buffon's needle experiment  Zerheusen The development of the limit concept in calculus  Gillette Bolyai and Lobachevsky's
influence and contribution to non-euclidean geometry  PhillipsSaccheri and his work with quadrilaterals Kiernan Monge's development of analytic geometry Weddle  Cauchy's complex variables
Scott  Lagrange