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>.
| Issue | About... |
|---|---|
| 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 |