Useful links
- Course Schedule: The course schedule lists what topics were (or will be) covered, as well as the all course work and deadlines.
- Links: Readings, course materials and links organized by topic
- Syllabus: The description and policies of this course can be found (of course!) on the class syllabus.
- Contact information and office hours: Click for here office hours, office address, Zoom link. Please use the stonybrook.edu email address for communication and sharing slides or other files.
- Missed work: Please fill this form if you have a good reason to miss quizzes, homework, lectures, etc. You can email me if you want, but note that I will use the contents of the form (and not the emails) when computing grades.
- Slides
- Examples of abstract, outline, slides, paper and presentation
- Calendar link to make appointment for presentation reheasal
- Presentation evaluation form
Books, websites and databases to use during the year
- Stony Brook Library is a great source of materials, and librarians that can help you.
- MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
- There is a great deal of relevant material in the digital database JSTOR, which you can access with your Stony Brook Net ID.
- A great math database is MathSciNet MSC primary classification is 01. For more details, see here.
- Wikimedia Commons is a good repository of images
- The Internet Archive has many books about math history. You can also find books at Project Gutenberg. Both websites are free because they post material whose copyright has expired.
- Wikipedia is often a good source for references, but it cannot be your reference.
- A video (from youtube or other platform) can be help you understand a topic but it cannot be your reference unless is "peer reviewed" or there are peer-reviewed-type reasons to believe in what the video says.
- Convergence from the Mathematical Association of America.
- Barrow-Green, June, Jeremy Gray, and Robin Wilson. The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach: Volume 1. American Mathematical Soc., 2019.
- Google scholar is great to get articles or books written in a good format. It can also be useful to search for material.
- Cut the knot
- Bibliographies of mathematics by subject by Prof. David E. Joyce
- History of Mathematics Notes by Donald Allen