Doug Ensley

Professor of Mathematics

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MAT400 Topics

Topics List for Term Papers

• History of perfect numbers from Euclid to the day before yesterday.
• History of the binomial theorem.
• History of prime numbers.
• History of the quadratic equation.
• The Goldbach Conjecture.
• Fermat's Last Theorem
• The Riemann Hypothesis
• The books that most influenced our present geometry texts.
• Comparison of algebra texts: The turn of the century and today.
• How new was the new math of the 1960's?
• American mathematics prior to 1875.
• The influence of social needs on the uses of mathematics.
• How our view of the early history of mathematics has changed in the last 100 years.
• The dark ages were dark for mathematics too.
• Women mathematicians.
• The evolution of the notion of function in mathematics.
• The evolution of "proof" in mathematics
• The calculus priority dispute.
• The history of linear programming.
• The history of numerical analysis.
• The history of statistics.
• The history of mathematical logic.
• Navigation and mathematics.
• Mathematics of calendars.
• History of Hindu mathematics
• History of Japanese mathematics
• History of Chinese mathematics
• History of Islamic mathematics

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