Week 1 Reading: Abbott 6.1-6.4
Gallian Chapters 11, 24
Munkres Sections 22-24
(Seminar) Benacerraf: Introduction, and Urton: Chapter 1
Week 2 Reading Abbott 6.5-7.1
Gallian Chapter 12-13
Munkres Sections 25-27
Seminar: Davis & Hersh Chapter 1 and "On Platonism" (see Assignments for link)
Week 3 Reading Abbott 7.2-7.4
Gallian Chapter 14
Munkres Sections 28-29
Seminar: Davis & Hersh Chapter 2 and Frege reading
Week 4 Reading Abbott 7.5-7.7
Gallian Chapter 15
Munkres Sections 28-29 (again)
Seminar: Davis & Hersh Chapter 3 and Anderson reading
Logic: Aristotle's Demonstrative Logic, and John Corcoran the mathematician
Week 5 Reading Algebra & Topology: Midterm exams, no new reading
Analysis: Chapter 8; Prepare presentation for next week.
Seminar: Davis & Hersh Chapter 4, and Brouwer & Heyting readings
Week 6 Reading Abbott: Analysis presentations...prepare section of Chapter 8
No Topology and Algebra due to Analysis presentations and Spring planning
Seminar: Davis & Hersh Chapter 5, and non-Western math article
Week 7 Reading Gallian: Chapters 16-17
Munkres: Begin Chapter 9 (Sections 51-52)
Seminar: Davis & Hersh Chapter 6, and "Marx and Mathematics" (use Ares system)
Complex Analysis: Chapter 1 (1.1-1.3) and 2.1-2.2 from Complex Analysis by George Cain
Found at: http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/winter99/complex.html [1]
Week 8 Reading Gallian: Chapter 18
Munkres: Chapter 9, Sections 53-54
Seminar: Davis & Hersh Chapter 7, and "Was Calculus Invented in India?"
Cain: 2.2, 2.3, Chapter 3, 4.1, 4.2
Week 9 Reading Gallian: Chapter 19 and p. 377 (on Fundamental Theorem of Algebra)
Munkres: Chapter 9 Sections 54 and 56 (Fundamental Theorem of Algebra)
Complex Analysis: Chapters 4, 5 and 6 (Fundamental Theorem of Algebra)
(Note on Complex Analysis: we won't have time to cover all sections in detail. For the purposes of homework and the test, you'll be responsible for the sections we cover in class.)
Seminar: Davis & Hersh Chapter 8, and "Games" article through Ares system