MATH304 HISTORY OF MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS II
| Course Code: |
2360304 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
6.0 |
| Department: |
Mathematics |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Prof.Dr. SERGEY FÝNASHÝN |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall Semesters. |
Course Content
Mathematics of the Renaissance, Islamic contributions. Solution of the cubic equation and consequences. Invention of logarithms. Time of Fermat and Descartes. Development of the limit concept. Newton and Leibniz. The age of Euler. Contributions of Gauss and Cauchy. Non-Euclidean geometries. The arithmetization of analysis. The rise of abstract algebra. Aspects of the twentieth century.
