A. Classical Greek Mathematics (1.

a)
Greece and the Aegean area, Thales of Miletos, measurements using
Geometry, Pythagoras and His Followers, the theory of figurative
numbers, Zeno’s Paradox, geometric proofs of the Pythagorean theorem,
Eudoxus of Cnidos, three construction problems of antiquity

B. The Alexandrian Period (1.b)

Euclid and the Elements; Euclidean Geometry – postulates, common
notions, selected propositions; Euclid’s Number Theory; Eratosthenes,
Claudius Ptolemy; Archimedes; Diophantus

C. Development in the East (2)

The algebra of al-Khowarizmi, Abu Kamil and Thabit ibn Qurra, Omar
Khayyam, astronomers al-Tusi and al-Kashi, ancient Chinese Nine
Chapters, later Chinese mathematical works, Hindu-Arabic Numerals,
ancient and medieval India

D. The Explosive 17th Century (3.a)

The beginning of modern notation, decimal fractions of Simon Stevin,
Napier’s invention of logarithms, Rene Descartes, Newton and Barrow,
Kepler, Gottfried Leibniz, Probability Theory, Pascal and the Cycloid,
Pascal’s Arithmetic Triangle

E. Non-Euclidean Geometry (3.b)

Creation of Non-Euclidean Geometry, Lobachevsky, Bolyai, models of the
new Geometry

F. Modern Mathematics (4)

Henri Poincare, Infinite Sets, paradoxes of Set Theory, axiom of choice,
the logistic school, Hardy and Ramanujan, general topology, four-color
conjecture, Fermat’s last theorem, Von Nuemann and the Computer,
women in Modern Mathematics, recent advances

G. Modular Arithmetic (5.a)

H. Modular Algebra (5.b)
Gauss: Disquisitiones arithmeticae, Clock arithmetic, Chinese Remainder
Theorem, Quadratic Reciprocity, Primes in Arithmetic Progressions,
Arithmetic Progressions of Primes

I. Abstract Algebra (6)

 beginning of abstract algebra, Hermann Grassmann, William Rowan
Hamilton, Boolean algebra, Abel and Galois, Abel–Ruffini theorem,
Groups, Rings, Fields

J. Ancient Science (7.a)

origins of science and the early sources of scientific knowledge, discovery
of fire, inventions for the purpose of survival, early scientist: Thales,
Hippocrates, Aristotle, Ptolemy

K. Science in the Orient and Medieval Europe (7.b)

fall of Roman Empire, Dark Ages, Charlemagne, Alciun of York,
Renaissance

(8) The Scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries

factors contributed to the rapid development of science/math, theories
of mathematics, cosmography, geography, and natural history,
similarities between the human body and machines, Da Vinci,
Copernicus, Mercator, Lippershey, Torricelli, Newton

(9) 18th century science: the development of national scientific

traditions
First industrial revolution, Farenheit, Benjamin Franklin, new
understanding of magnetism and electricity, widespread replacement
of manual labor

(10.a) 19th century science: the agent of industrial and intellectual

change
Birth of Science as a profession, atomic theory, Ohm’s Law, Germ
theory

(10.b) 20th century: new fields and new powers

publications in science/math, Nobel Prizes, social dimension of
science/math, samples of scientific writing in the light of their
relevance to present day science/math

L. Philosophies of science and mathematics and their educational

implications (11 & 12)
Scientism, Positivism, Empiricism, Reductionism, Mathematical Realism,
Platonism, Logicism, Formalism, Intuitionism, etc.