Term paper topics chosen by my students

2003

1. Who is Nicolas Bourbaki?
2. The Philosophy of Rene Descartes
3. Divine Logic [also about Descartes]
4. Lifting the Veil [a very ambitious look at the "Hilbert problems"]
5. A Brief History of Trigonometry
6. The History of Reform Calculus
7. Mathematics in World War II: The Enigma and Deciphering It
8. Mayan Mathematics

2006

1. The Fibonacci Sequence: A Brief Overview of Its History, Properties, and Applications
2. Thirty Important People in Mathematics History [The main product here was a 12-foot "timeline" poster for classroom use.]
3. A History of the Mathematics Developed during the Second World War in the Service of the War
4. Acculturation and Number Sense
5. The Depth of Pascal's Triangle
6. Zeno: Man against Motion -- A Look at Zeno's Four Paradoxes
7. The Mathematicians Who Defined Conics
8. The Human Cognitive Ability at "Number Sense" from the Work of Piaget to Dehaene
9. Mathematics of Space Exploration and Education
10. The Life and Mathematics of Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
11. Finding Euclid
12. Cryptography
13. Cryptology: A Historical and Mathematical Journey
14. From the Greeks to Galois: The History of the Solution of Polynomial Equations