Ph.D, M.Sc. and other projects; past teaching

This page contains links to Ph.D, M.Sc. and other projects (including seminars) in history of mathematics which are available on the internet and which were supervised by me. They are presented in inverse chronological order.

Current

List of Ph.D. dissertations, M.Sc. theses and other papers in History of Mathematics (1977-2008) which were written at the Mathematics Department, University of Utrecht. These dissertations and papers can be consulted and borrowed in Room 704, Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht. Some of the dissertations are online (see the list).

Mijn systeem voor het geven van presentaties en het kijken naar presentaties van anderen (My system for giving presentations and looking at the presentations by others)

Werkboekje Patronen in Islamitische Mozaieken van leraar in onderzoek Goossen Karssenberg.
Infoboekje Patronen in Islamitische Mozaieken van leraar in onderzoek Goossen Karssenberg.

Website van Henk Hietbrink over Frans van Schooten Jr. (1615-1660) voor het middelbaar onderwijs. ("Leraar in Onderzoek"-project)

Past

Lars van den Berg, Merlijn Koek, Serop Lazarian, De laatste stelling van Fermat, kaleidoscoopwerkstuk eerstejaar wiskunde. De online versie is toegankelijk via deze webpagina over de stelling van Fermat van Lars van den Berg.

Jos van der Maas, De foute wiskunde van Scaliger, bachelorscriptie januari 2011, zie online versie

Workshop on "The Astrolabe" (modelled after the astrolabe of al-Khojandi, 10th c.) performed by Wilfred de Graaf in al-Khojandi's native city Khojand, Tajikistan, October 23, 2010; Exercises in the Tajik language (essentially Persian in Russian alphabet).

Pieter de Haan, Wouter van Krieken, Alexander Vervuurt, Essay (Kaleidoscoop-werkstuk) on spherical and hyperbolic geometry [for the freshmen course Caleidoscope of Mathematics, in Dutch]

Webpage for my lecture on astrology in a course on the possible unity of science in the Descartes College, Utrecht, October 2009.

Concrete Meetkunde (website of the course in Concrete Geometry 1 (WISB 241), July 2009, made by my student Bart Post)

Tapas of Descartian Geometry (essays written by students who participated in the seminar on the G&eacut;ométrie of René Descartes (1637), spring 2009)

Astrolabe-workshop by Huseyin Sen and Wilfred de Graaf, Istanbul, november 2008, see the report in the Newsletter of the Dutch Institute in Istanbul.

Invitation to the workshop "The astrolabe" by Wilfred de Graaf and Jules Lamers in Aleppo, Institute for the History of Arabic Science, August 4, 2008. Another version of the invitation.

Bachelor-thesis by Eric van Lit: The Measurement of the circle} of Archimedes in the revision of the Middle Books (tahrir al-mutawassitat) by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (Arabic edition with English translation and commentary), October 2008.

Bachelor-thesis by Wiggert Loonstra on mathematics education in the early 19th century in the Netherlands, with special reference to Jan Hendrik van Swinden and Jacob de Gelder, August 2008.

Website on Jacob de Gelder (1765-1843), by Wiggert Loonstra.

www.wiskundecanon.nl (website by Wiggert Loonstra and Johannes Lok)

Blogsite of Hüseyin Sen while in Istanbul (working in the new museum for history of Islamic science)

Wetenschap van het Midden {essays on history of mathematics and astronomy in ancient China by students, spring 2008).

Birgit van Dalen, Anne Keune Website: geschiedenis van de wiskundige notatie (Dutch). (2005)

Article (in Dutch, 2004) by Eelco Nederkoorn on his project on the qiblafinder in Dhahran, SA (jointly supervised by prof. Hassan Azad and me), 2003. The article appeared in the almanac Fata Morgana of the student association A-Eskwadraat.

Leo Boer, The Constant of Nineveh. This paper (in English) can be downloaded at http://www.xs4all.nl/~garlakk (ca. 2002)

Gerbrand Hagmolen of Ten Have, Mario Topper,   Archimedes over Drijvende Lichamen (ca. 2000)

Gerbrand Hagmolen of Ten Have, Exploring the Theory of the Rainbow (ten-minutes talk at the Joint AMS-MAA Mathematics Meeting in New Orleans, 2001)
Regenboog (Nederlands, afstudeerproject)