History of mathematics *

Mathematics in antient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Pythagorean mathematics. Mathematics of Euclid's Elements. Archimedes and Apollonius. Hellenistic mathematics in the Roman Empire. Mathematics in antient India and China. Mathematics in the Arab Empire. Middle ages and the renaissance of European mathematics. Fermat, Descartes and Pascal. Newton and Leibniz. Euler, Lagrange and Laplace. Gauss and Legendre. Algebra, analysis and geometry in the nineteenth century. Set theory and foundations of mathematics. Modern mathematics and its applications.

B. Cipra: What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, AMS, Providence, 2002.
R. Cooke: The History of Mathematics, A Brief Course, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1997.
V. J. Katz: A History of Mathematics, An Introduction, Addison Wesley, Boston, New York, 1998.
W. S. Anglin: Mathematics : A Concise History and Philosophy, Springer, New York, 1996.
F. Križanič: Križem po matematiki, Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana 1960.
D. J. Struik: Kratka zgodovina matematike, DMFA, Ljubljana, 1986.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/

Students learn about the development of mathematical ideas as they evolved historically.

Knowledge and understanding of the historical development of mathematical ideas and its use in teaching.

lectures, exercise sessions, consultations

Homeworks, project work
Written and oral exam
grading: 5 (fail), 6-10 (pass) (according to the Statute of UL)

LAVRIČ, Boris. The isometries of certain maximum norms. Linear Algebra and its Applications, ISSN 0024-3795. [Print ed.], 2005, vol. 405, str. 249-263. [COBISS-SI-ID 13679961]
LAVRIČ, Boris. Vsote praštevil in vsote njihovih kvadratov. Obzornik za matematiko in fiziko, ISSN 0473-7466, 1996, let. 43, št. 5, str. 161-167. [COBISS-SI-ID 7003737]
LAVRIČ, Boris. Parketiranje ravnine s konveksnimi mnogokotniki. Obzornik za matematiko in fiziko, ISSN 0473-7466, 1980, let. 27, št. 4, str. 97-101, graf. prikazi. [COBISS-SI-ID 8007513]