It’s a bit better than I expected although it does seem odd that everything in the first two years is very Eurocentric. It’s only in the third year are students exposed to anything by Asian authors (and there’s some cheating there in that the Dao de jing is listed twice—no, wait, three times!) and those are all under the category of elective works.
I’m frankly unconvinced of the value of reading historical works of science or mathematics, especially those written before modern notation came into usage—without additional explicatory apparatus, the text would be exceptionally opaque.
I’m frankly unconvinced of the value of reading historical works of science or mathematics, especially those written before modern notation came into usage—without additional explicatory apparatus, the text would be exceptionally opaque.