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Date: 2013-02-17 16:36:54
Curves
Pi
Archimedes
Quadrature
The Quadrature of the Parabola
Hippocrates of Chios
Parabola
John Wallis
Squaring the circle
Geometry
Ancient Greek mathematicians
Conic sections

History of Mathematics as a tool Barry Mazur February 17, 2013 As an introductory lecture (and, I hope, discussion session) for this History of Mathematics seminar1 it seems appropriate to ask the question: Why history?

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