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Welcome to Math 363, History of Mathematics at Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut.

If you are a student in this course, then one of your major projects this semester will be to build a Wiki based on our textbook, Classics in Mathematics by my friend, Ronald Calinger, Professor of History at Catholic University in Washington, DC. Most pages in this Wiki should be based on that textbook.

If you are a guest contributor, then we invite you to participate, in the spirit of the course.

The pages based on Calinger's book should follow Open University's "CCS" paradigm, Context, Content and Significance, for each reading in the book. They should be in balance, so that each facet constitutes at least 25% of the content of each Wiki entry.

Notes on using Wiki technology

a page for practicing things

Why study history?

By class time on Thursday, January 29, 2009, each student in the class should contribute a 100-word essay on the subject "Why study history?" to the page Why study history?

Please register (using the username format LastnameInitial) and log in before you make your edits. You are welcome to make minor edits to other people's contributions (spelling, punctuation, etc.), but please do not change the sense of their essays. Please be accurate about the "100-word" requirement, i.e. keep it between about 90 and 110 words.