GRADE SEVEN: the required elements

• Topics:
  • Euclid, Book I, selected proofs
  • Euclid, Books II, selected proofs

    Note: Book I is enough for this grade, Book II is too difficult. I agreed to delete this item.

• History: Hellenistic mathematics.
• Suggested Integrative Projects (one required):
  • The machines of Archimedes, Heron, and Ctesibius
  • Hypatia and the conics of Apollonius

    Note: Duplicates required history item above.

  • Tables of chords and astronomy in India

    Note: Included in the nest project.

  • The swath of trigonometry from Ptolemy to Baghdad
  • The logic of Aristotle's Isagoge
  • Astronomical allignments in Teotihuacan
  • The heliacal rising of Venus and the Mayan calendar
  • Neoplatonism and Euclid in Byzantium
  • Early translations of Euclid in Baghdad, with shades of Babylon