Assignments for Week 9

R = Readings ._._. W = Writings

1. (R) In our online textbook read the chapter on the Calculus period. Also read my "lecture" for the week (when available).

2. (RW) STANDING ASSIGNMENT EVERY WEEK: Read the parts (if any) of your "general history" book corresponding to this week's material. You are encouraged to mail in ("report to the class") anything interesting or important that you found in your reading that's not in the online material.

3. (W) (For Monday, Nov. 3) From the exercises on the calculus period:
   • 3 (subnormal)
   • 4 (tangent)
   • 5(a,b) (Fermat differentiation)
   • 6(b) (extrema)
   • 7 (De Sluse)

4. (R) (optional) Two from Mathematics Magazine (which you should be able to access on the Web through TAMU Library -- see a previous message)
   1. One old: J. V. Grabiner, "The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass", Math. Mag. 56, 195-206 (1983). (highly recommended!)
   2. One new: F. J. Swetz, "Leibniz, the Yijing, and the Religious Conversion of the Chinese", Math. Mag. 76, 276-291 (2003).