Math 629: History of Mathematics
Frank Sottile

Term Paper Topics from Spring 2020

Term Paper Topics from Spring 2018

• 30 Notable Women in Mathematics.
• Who is Nicolas Boubaki?
• Mathematics and War — A Sampling
• History of Infinity in Mathematics
• Perfect, Just Perfect! (Perfect Numbers)
• Cracking Enigma: Cryptography in World War II
• Secrecy Systems
• History of the Riemann Hypothesis
• The Euler Characteristic
• Zeno's Paradoxes
• A Brief History of Hyperbolic Geometry
• The Golden Ratio: The Universal Pattern
• Bayes's Rule as a Weapon: A Journey Through War, Disease, and Crime
• Coordinate Minecraft Geometry
• The Riemann Hypothesis: An Introduction
• The Significance of Hilbert's Problems to the Advancement of Mathemataics

Term Paper Topics from Spring 2017

• Beyond Three Dimensions: A brief History of Hyperspace
• A Colorful Problem (the Development of the Four Color Theorem)
• David Hilbert's Collection of Unsolved Problems
• The Discovery and Impact of Non-Euclidean Geometry
• The Enigma Machine
• A Historical Tour of Infinity
• A Look at the Reform Calculus Movement
• Math and Cryptography: Cryptography and Math
• The Mystery of π
• The Omnipresence of the Legendary Constant π
• The Poincare Conjecture
• Pascal's "Treatise on the Arithmetic Triangle"
• Public Key Cryptosystems: From Origins to Today