Through the History Glass

A series of columns written for CMC3 Newsletter, the official newsletter of the California Mathematics Council, Community Colleges (CMC3).

If you would like to write a guest column, please e-mail John Thoo at <jthoo@yccd.edu>.

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Fall 2006 Introduction
Fall 2006 Completing the square
Spring 2007 Euler
Summer 2007 Roman and Mayan numerals
Fall 2007 Hindu-Arabic number system
Spring 2008 Approximating square roots    Erratum: The era for both Theon of Alexandria and Hypatia is A.D., and not B.C.
Summer 2008 Finding ab and an
Fall 2008 Multiplication by doubling, lattice, and dust board
Spring 2009 More about the Roman number system
Summer 2009 Multiplication in Atharvaveda, division in Liber Abaci
Fall 2009 Proportion, linear, and quadratic problems of years gone by
Spring 2010 Viete's and Harriot's roles in bringing about symbolic algebra
Summer 2010 Exploring the great books of mathematics (MAA short course at 2010 AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, SF)
Fall 2010 Euclid's Elements part 1: introduction; even and odd numbers
Spring 2011 Euclid's Elements part 2: perfect numbers
Summer 2011 Euclid's Elements part 3: Euclid's algorithm
Fall 2011 Introducing complex numbers
Spring 2012 Figurate numbers or figured numbers
Summer 2012 Pythagorean triples
Fall 2012 Logarithms part 1: Who done it?
Spring 2013 Logarithms part 2: Napier's definition
Summer 2013 Logarithms part 3: Construction of Napier's logarithm table