Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Licenţă
Domeniul: Calculatoare şi tehnologia informaţiei
Programul de studii: Ingineria informatiei - in limba engleza
Limba de predare: Engleză

SYLLABUS

I. General data
Code	Subject	
MMH0001	The History of Mathematics	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L+P	Category	Status	
8	1+0+0+0	speciality	optional	

II. Full status faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Didactic	Chair	Type of activity	
surname	title	title		C	S	L	
MODOI Gheorghe Ciprian	Ph.D.	Lect.	Algebra, Mathematical Analysis and Geometry	*			

Associated faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Institution	Type of	Type of activity	
surname	title		position	C	S	L	

III. Course objectives
Pursueing of the evolution of sciences in general and mathematics in particular; basis of a historic-mathematical culture. Development of the critic spirit in the field and of the respect to the scientific thesaurus.	

IV. Course contents
I. Introduction. Ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Egypt). Ancient Indian mathematics. Greek and Hellenistic mathematics. Classical Chinese mathematics
II. Classical Indian mathematics. Islamic mathematics. Medieval European mathematics
III. The Renaissance in mathematics. The algebra of the cubic and quartic equations, the symbolic algebra
IV. The mathematics of the variable quantities (17th century). Logarithms, analytical geometry, differential and integral calculus
V. 18th century. General characteristics, Bernoulli-Euler, the mathematics of the French Revolution, science In the Romanian schools
VI. The modern mathematics. K. F. Gauss, non-Euclidean geometry, famous Romanian mathematicians, new contemporary mathematics, international trends in the developments of the mathematics (academies, journals, congresses), evolution of the computational techniques.

V. Bibliography
1. Both, Nicolae: Istoria matemaicii -- mini curs. Univ. "Babeş-Bolyai" Cluj-Napoca, Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică, Cluj-Napoca, 1981.
2. Both, Nicolae: Istoria matemaicii. Editura ALC Media Group, Cluj-Napoca, 1999.
3. Filep László: A tudományok királynője (A matematika fejlődése). Typotex Kiadó, Budapest, 2001.
4. Gingyikin, Szemjon Grigorjevics: Történetek fizikusokról és matematikusokról. Typotex Kiadó, Budapest, 2004.
5. Mihăileanu, N.: Istoria matematicii - Antichitatea; Evul mediu; Renaşterea şi secolul al 17-lea. Editura Enciclopedică Română, Bucureşti, 1974.
6. Mihăileanu, N.: Istoria matematicii -- Secolul al 18-lea; Prima jumătate a secolului a 19-lea; Dezvoltarea ulterioară a matematicii. Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1981.
7. Sain Márton: Matematikatörténeti ABC. Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest, 1978.
8. D. I. Struik: A matematika rövid története. Gondolat Kiadó, Budapest, 1958.
9. Toth Alexandru: Istoria matematicii, Univ. "Babeş-Bolyai" Cluj, Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică, Cluj-Napoca, 1971.	

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks

VII. Didactic methods used

VIII. Assessment
colloquy	

IX. Additional references

	Dean,							Chair head,

	Date,							Course responsible,
								Lect. MODOI Gheorghe Ciprian, Ph.D.