Reading Assignment 2

You have to read the chapter from William Dunham's book, Journey Through Genius, and take reading notes on it for next class.

Reading Assignment 1

For the next class please read the chapter on Mathematics in Ancient Greece from Victor Katz's book, A History of Mathematics: An Introduction.

Assignment #1

Your first assignment of the course is to use the ancient format of a square and a rectangle and find an expression for the value of x that would satisfy the equation

Use the diagram to generate the algebraic steps for this general solution.