Graduate Institute in Liberal Arts

Santa Fe
Mathematics and Natural Science Tutorial and Seminar Reading Lists - Summer

Seminar Reading List
Monday and Thursday 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

The reading assignment for the first seminar should be completed before the first class meeting.

Week One
             1. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things Books I, II, III to line 580
             2. On the Nature of Things Books III to end, IV, V (lines 1‑235, 771 to end), VI (lines 1‑95, 1090 to end)

Week Two
            3. Plato, Timaeus to 58c.
             “Ptolemy's The System of the World” (xerox available in bookstore)
            4. Aristotle, Physics Book I 184a9-184b14, 189b30-192b7; Book II 192b8-195b30 

Week Three
             5. Physics Book II 195b31-200b11; Book III 200b12-202b29
             6. Physics Book III 202b30-208a25; Book IV 208a28-213a10

Week Four
             7. Physics Book IV 213a11-224a17
             8. Physics Book VIII 250b11-260a19, 265a13-267b27 

Week Five
             9. Ptolemy, Almagest Book I, 1‑8; Book III, 3 (first page of III, 3, up to and including the figures for the two hypotheses). There are many copies of Ptolemy available in Meem Library, as well as in the bookstore.
           10. Galileo, Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, “Author’s Dedication,” “To the Reader,” “The First Day,” through page 68 in the Stillman Drake tranlsation

Week Six
           11. Two Chief World Systems, “The First Day” and “The Second Day,” pages 68‑131
           12. Two Chief World Systems, “The Second Day,” pages 131‑188

Week Seven
           13. Darwin, Origin of Species, First edition; historical sketch, introduction and chapters I‑III (Penguin edition only)
           14. Origin of Species, chapters IV, XIV

Week Eight
           15. Freud, “Note on a Case of Obsessional Neurosis [the Rat Man]” in Three Case Histories
           16. Freud, “A Note on the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis” and “On Narcissism:  An Introduction” and “Mourning and Melancholia” in General Psychological Theory

Tutorial Reading List
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10:30 a.m. ‑12:00 p.m.

The reading assignment for the first tutorial should be completed before the first class meeting.

First assignment:  Euclid,  Elements Book I, “Definitions, Postulates, Common Notions” only.  Other daily assignments will be made by the tutor.

Weeks One through Four
16 meetings

Euclid, Elements Book I

Weeks Five through Eight
15 meetings

Lobachevski, The Theory of Parallels, selections (mimeo in Bookstore or in final appendix of Bonola, Non‑Euclidean Geometry, Dover Publications)