Lucretius

This course explores Lucretius' philosophical poem De Rerum Natura as an exposition of Epicurean atomic theory and ethics, and considers the place of the poem in later literature and thought.

Calculus I

This course is for students who have not studied calculus and who have the necessary precalculus background. It presents rates of change and their applications, integrals, the fundamental theorem, and modeling of phenomena in the natural and social sciences. All students are required to complete the online self assessment of precalculus skills before the course begins.

Calculus I

This course is for students who have not studied calculus and who have the necessary precalculus background. It presents rates of change and their applications, integrals, the fundamental theorem, and modeling of phenomena in the natural and social sciences. All students are required to complete the online self assessment of precalculus skills before the course begins.

Explorations in Geometry

The system of geometry devised by the ancient Greeks was immutable until the nineteenth century, when it was put in a broader framework better able to accommodate the varied interests of physical science and mathematics. In this course, we begin by a careful and close observation of what we can see and physically construct, reasoning informally about those observations. We will then explore a selection of geometry from the time of Euclid to the recent past, including curved surfaces and the hyperbolic plane.
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