Brief Syllabus

Sources:

Journey through Genius,by William Dunham
Calculus Gems, by George F. Simmons
Euclid's Elements, Thomas L. Heath Translation, Dana Densmore, Editor
Euclid -- The Creation of Mathematics, by Benno Artmann

Material to be Covered:

Greek Mathematics: Thales (ca. 625 - 547 BCE)
Pythagoras (ca. 580 - 500 BCE)
Hippocrates of Chios (ca. 440 BCE)
Eudoxus (ca. 408 - 355 BCE)
Euclid (ca. 300 BCE)
Eculid's Book VI
Euclid Translation
Archimedes (ca. 287 - 212 BCE)
Other Topics
Analytic Geometry: Descartes (1596 - 1650)
Fermat (1601 - 1665)
The Calculus: Newton (1642 - 1727)
Leibniz (1646 - 1716)
Other Topics
Transfinite Arithmetic: Cantor (1845 - 1918)
Irrational Numbers: Dedekind (1831 - 1916)