Course book: Korneeva

(http://www.eng.math.msu.su/special_language.htm)
1. Equations and Inequalities: Elementary Problems and Theorems in Algebra and

Number Theory etc.

Summaries/reports: by the 17th of November (2 or 3 pages + a report on the topic)
A test in October/November: translating a text in the written form
“Topical” issues to discuss: by the 1st and the 8th of December (at the latest): Modern Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics and the Area of My Research

Glossary project (словарь с терминами-словосочетаниями из своей научной статьи): min. 30 word combinations/terms - by the 30th of November (to email)

draw one? Ax2 +BXY+Y2C + CfX+EY +D = 0
Why

could he not have been considered the first man to formulate the law of refraction?
Harriot did establish some important mathematical signs or notations looking like this.
What were they supposed to mean?
What is noosphere?
Who suggested introducing such a term into
science? What do we know about him (or her)?

What values can we find using Viete`s achievements in Maths?
What was used to mean variables in Viete`s and Harriot`s systems of notation?

in this or that way

and what is not

-has moved into (заселился) the university hostel

(dormitory)

-`s/`ve learned some Turkish

-`s/`ve tried a new dish this week

Ask your colleagues to tell you one story that is true and another story which is false. Guess which is which exactly.

the 17th century?


Why did mathematicians start to trust calculus and

algebra a century after Descartes?

What is the role of Descartes in the shift of attitudes to symbolic manipulations?

rare

Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt. With me everything turns into mathematics.

I

hope that posterity will judge me kindly,
not only as to the things which I have explained but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.”

Text: What do almost all of us have in common with Poincare? Coffee!