Writing Homework Help

Choose one major mathematical idea and discuss its development including: major people, time period, cultural/political/religious impacts, and the impact the development had on mathematics as we now know it. Some ideas for topics may include:

• Calculus
• Cartesian Coordinate system
• Non-Euclidean Geometry
• Trigonometry
• Pi
• Mathematics in the modern world
• Compare and contrast how algebra was taught in early times with how it is taught today
• Connection between math and art
• Why is math education important?
• Pythagorean theorem and its many appearances throughout history
• The notion of Function throughout history
• The influence of societal needs on the development of mathematics
• Relationship of mathematics to music
• Is math discovered or invented?
• Female mathematicians in history
• The effect of the People’s Cultural Revolution on Chinese mathematics
• Navigation and mathematics
• Famous problems in the history of mathematics
• The Pythagorean Brotherhood
• Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems
• Other topics of interest

You should have at least 5 references (that you actually look up) and may utilize the resources you have learned in this class (Book, internet, library, class discussions, etc). You must support your argument with factual information and accurate historical data. Your paper must be at least 10 pages, double spaced, with normal 1” margins on all sides. All mathematical symbols should be typed and any pictures should be embedded in the SINGLE document. Multiple documents will not be allowed.