The History of Mathematics
offered by Oxford University

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The History of Mathematics
at
Oxford University
Overview

Gain a comprehensive overview of the mathematics principles and concepts

Duration	7 days
Total fee	₹72,000
Mode of learning	Online
Course Level	UG Certificate

The History of Mathematics
at
Oxford University
Highlights

Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university

The History of Mathematics
at
Oxford University
Course details

What are the course deliverables?

The contribution of the Greeks to proof
That Mathematics is the servant of Science
That Mathematics was created by a small number of great thinkers

More about this course

We will be looking at the key developments and developers of Mathematics from the time of ancient Babylon and traversing through Egypt and the Greeks looking at the work of the Pythagoreans, Euclid and Archimedes along with their fascination with the primes
This will be followed by considering the contributions of Indian and Arab scholars and how they influenced the development of Mathematics during the Enlightenment
We will also follow the 'footsteps-of many of the great 'Giants-of Mathematics including those of: Newton, Gauss and Laplace
This course aims to show that the development of Mathematics was iterative and dependent on basic human needs

The History of Mathematics
at
Oxford University
Curriculum

Session 1

Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics

Session 2

The Greeks of Antiquity: Pythagoras and Euclid

Session 3

Aristotle, Diophantus and Archimedes

Session 4

Arab and Indian Mathematics and zero

Session 5

Fermat, Pascal and probability

Session 6

Newton, Leibniz and the 'Calculus Wars'

Session 7

Great Algorists I: Euler and Lagrange

Session 8

Great Algorists II: Laplace and Fourier

Session 9

The Prince (Gauss) and his students I

Session 10

The Prince (Gauss) and his students II

Session 11

The 20th Century: Hilbert and others

Session 12

Solved and unsolved problems: the Riemann Hypothesis and others

The History of Mathematics
at
Oxford University
Faculty details

Dr Vasos Pavlika

Dr Vasos Pavlika is Associate Professor (Education) at University College London, he also teaches Mathematics at the LSE (University of London), as well as Online at: SOAS, University of London (Mathematical Economics), Goldsmiths College (Computing and Data Science), University of London and the Open University (Applied Mathematics).