History of Mathematics (Math 436), Rutgers University (NB) Spring 2017 Students' Final Essays

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These are the insightful essays written by the students of Doron Zeilberger's class History of Mathematics, [Math 436, Spring 2017, at Rutgers University (NB)].

• Marlene Cooper's essay on Maryam Mirzakhani

• Alexandra Feldler's essay on Mary Everest Boole

• Bing Yang Ji's essay on Etienne and Blaise Pascal

• Kevin Lin's essay on Leonardo da Vinchi

• Shmuel Lotstvin's essay on Cryptography

• Weikun Lu's essay on paradoxes

• Suiliang Ma's essay on Huffman Coding

• Jennifer Mead's essay on Cryptosystems and the Enigma machine

• Laura Ng's inerview with Gerald Goldin

• Susmita Paruchuri's essay on Fibonacci

• Joshua Pomerantz's essay on two problems that transformed Finance

• Lynne Richman's essay on the History and Evolution of Number

• Reuben Rios' essay on Sheldon Goldstein (based on a live interview)

• Poorva Sampat's essay on Cryptography with a focus on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

• Cassandra Sanchez's essay on Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler

• Andre Silva Dias' essay on Hindu-Arabic numerals

• Sarah Teklinski's essay on complex numbers

• Tyler Volpe's essay on David Hilbert

• Benjamin Vreeland's essay on complex numbers

• Karine Yamouts essay on zero

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