After completing this course, the student should be familiar with:

• The main numerical notations that have been used in the world
• Egyptian and Babylonian problem solving techniques
• Canonical Greek mathematical authors (Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius) and their works
• Late Antique Greek mathematics
• Indian and Chinese mathematics
• The Graeco-Arabic translation movement
• the achievements of writers in Islamic civilizations in geometry and algebra