TTC - Queen of the Sciences: A History of Mathematics
Course No. 1434 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by David M. Bressoud Macalester College Ph.D., Temple University 1. What Is Mathematics? 2. Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics 3. Greek Mathematics—Thales to Euclid 4. Greek Mathematics—Archimedes to Hypatia 5. Astronomy and the Origins of Trigonometry
This edition of the Hardy classic includes a complete authoritative text plus biographical and historical contexts, critical history, essays by five scholars, and a glossary. A fine scholarly edition for the academic crowd.
Now in a new edition, this influential book traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of this international movement. Paul Thompson challenges myths of historical scholarship and looks closely at the use of oral sources by historians.
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize, it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain.
Compelling Visuality: The Work of Art in and out of History
Typically, art history is an enterprise of recovery-of searching out the provenance, the original intentions, the physical setting, and historical conditions behind a work of art. The essays in Compelling Visuality address some of the "other" questions that are less frequently asked-and, in doing so, show how much is to be learned and gained by going beyond the traditional approaches of art history.
