The Queen of the Sciences : a History of Mathematics

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Course no. 1434.
Pt. 1, lecture 1. What is mathematics? -- lecture 2. Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics -- lecture 3. Greek mathematics : Thales to Euclid -- lecture 4. Greek mathematics : Archimedes to Hypatia -- lecture 5. Astronomy and the origins of trigonometry -- lecture 6. Indian mathematics : trigonometry blossoms -- lecture 7. Chinese mathematics : advances in computation -- lecture 8. Islamic mathematic : the creation of algebra -- lecture 9. Italian algebraists solve the cubic -- lecture 10. Napier and the natural logarithm -- lecture 11. Galileo and the mathematics of motion -- lecture 12. Fermat, Descartes, and analytic geometry --
pt. 2, lecture 13. Newton : modeling the universe -- lecture 14. Leibniz and the emergence of calculus -- lecture 15. Euler : calculus proves its promise -- lecture 16. Geometry : from Alhambra to Escher -- lecture 17. Gauss : invention of differential geometry -- lecture 18. Algebra becomes the science of symmetry -- lecture 19. Modern analysis : Fourier to Carleson -- lecture 20. Riemann sets new directions for analysis -- lecture 21. Sylvester and Ramanujan : different worlds -- lecture 22. Fermat's last theorem : the final triumph -- lecture 23. Mathematics : the ultimate physical reality -- lecture 24. Problems and prospects for the 21st century.
Lecturer: David M. Bressoud, Macalester College.
24 lectures describing the historical development of mathematics.
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Queen of the Sciences submitted by mickstewart on June 19, 2020, 4:00pm Very interesting. Investigates the problems which the creative mathematicians were trying to solve and the thought processes used to advance the arts of math.
Also describes how the studies of mathematics advanced science ... and vice versa.

Dr. Bressoud does a very very good job of introducing mathematical concepts and relating how they were developed. The study of math is intriguing. It is even better when it can be used to describe physical phenomena.