Good evening! Finally I have course materials for the first week of the History of Mathematics course at http://calclab.math.tamu.edu/~fulling/m629/ Please read the handout and the lecture and assignment files for the first week. In summary of the handout: There will be no tests, but there will be weekly homework assignments and some longer papers. A history course is not a typical math course; I am confident that we will all find it strange but enjoyable. A point of protocol: You are adults, most of you are professional educators, and some of you are almost as old as I am. I intend to get on a first-name basis with all of you right away, so please dispense with my professorial titles. Steve Fulling Professor of Mathematics, Texas A&M University