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Mathematical monthly
The Mathematical Monthly
Author: John Daniel RunklePublisher:
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
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"A complete catalogue of the writings of Sir John Herschel": v. 3, p. 220-227.
The Mathematical Monthly
Author: The American Mathematical Monthly
Author: Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Author: Volker R. RemmertPublisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3319396498
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book addresses the historiography of mathematics as it was practiced during the 19th and 20th centuries by paying special attention to the cultural contexts in which the history of mathematics was written. In the 19th century, the history of mathematics was recorded by a diverse range of people trained in various fields and driven by different motivations and aims. These backgrounds often shaped not only their writing on the history of mathematics, but, in some instances, were also influential in their subsequent reception. During the period from roughly 1880-1940, mathematics modernized in important ways, with regard to its content, its conditions for cultivation, and its identity; and the writing of the history of mathematics played into the last part in particular. Parallel to the modernization of mathematics, the history of mathematics gradually evolved into a field of research with its own journals, societies and academic positions. Reflecting both a new professional identity and changes in its primary audience, various shifts of perspective in the way the history of mathematics was and is written can still be observed to this day. Initially concentrating on major internal, universal developments in certain sub-disciplines of mathematics, the field gradually gravitated towards a focus on contexts of knowledge production involving individuals, local practices, problems, communities, and networks. The goal of this book is to link these disciplinary and methodological changes in the history of mathematics to the broader cultural contexts of its practitioners, namely the historians of mathematics during the period in question.
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin
Author: Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences
Author: Nicholas J. HighamPublisher: SIAM
ISBN: 0898714206
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Nick Higham follows up his successful HWMS volume with this much-anticipated second edition.
Catalan Numbers with Applications
Author: Thomas KoshyPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 019533454X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
This book presents a clear and comprehensive introduction to one of the truly fascinating topics in mathematics: Catalan numbers. They crop up in chess, computer programming and even train tracks. In addition to lucid descriptions of the mathematics and history behind Catalan numbers, Koshy includes short biographies of the prominent mathematicians who have worked with the numbers.
Foundations and Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics
Author: Howard EvesPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048613220X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Third edition of popular undergraduate-level text offers historic overview, readable treatment of mathematics before Euclid, Euclid's Elements, non-Euclidean geometry, algebraic structure, formal axiomatics, sets, more. Problems, some with solutions. Bibliography.
Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000
Author: Peggy Aldrich KidwellPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080188814X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
From the blackboard to the graphing calculator, the tools developed to teach mathematics in America have a rich history shaped by educational reform, technological innovation, and spirited entrepreneurship. In Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000, Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, and David Lindsay Roberts present the first systematic historical study of the objects used in the American mathematics classroom. They discuss broad tools of presentation and pedagogy (not only blackboards and textbooks, but early twentieth-century standardized tests, teaching machines, and the overhead projector), tools for calculation, and tools for representation and measurement. Engaging and accessible, this volume tells the stories of how specific objects such as protractors, geometric models, slide rules, electronic calculators, and computers came to be used in classrooms, and how some disappeared.
