Week 28 — April 22, 2027

Readings

• Math: George Berkeley, The Analyst; or, A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician (1734), complete — the eighteenth-century attack on the logical foundations of the calculus. Free online at https://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Berkeley/Analyst/
• Theology: Revelation 1–5: the letters to the churches and the Lamb who was slain
• Literature: Aeneid, Book 12 (~30 pp.) — the epic is complete
• Western Civilization: Final document week — sources from Ch. 16: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (p. 490); The Starry Messenger (p. 494); A New Heaven? Faith Versus Reason — Galileo against Bellarmine (p. 496); Pascal: “What Is a Man in the Infinite?” (p. 510) — read beside this week’s Berkeley, which carries the same contest of faith and reason onto the mathematicians’ own ground. History reading complete.

Thesis & assignments

• ◆ Thesis: Revised draft due + practice presentation (group only)

Upcoming

• Week 29 (May 6): ◆ FINAL DRAFT due
• Week 30 (May 13): ◆ PRESENTATION & DEFENSE