A Humanities Approach to Mathematics
FAIN: EH-*0255-80
Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN 37203-2416)
Susan Ford Wiltshire (Project Director: August 1979 to October 1990)
To develop a one-semester freshman seminar, "A Humanistic Approach to Mathematics." The course is designed to reintroduce mathematics into its historical and cultural context, and to demonstrate the interelatedness of various forms of intellectual history.