| 书目名称 | History of Mathematics | | 副标题 | A Supplement | | 编辑 | Craig Smoryński | | 视频video | | | 概述 | includes an annotated bibliographys of books on the history of mathematics.emphasizes the importance of using primary sources by looking at the distortion of historical facts over time.author provides | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 1 An Initial Assignment I haven’t taught the history of mathematics that often, but I do rather like the course. The chief drawbacks to teaching it are that i. it is a lot more work than teaching a regular mathematics course, and ii. in American colleges at least, the students taking the course are not mathematics majors but e- cation majors— and and in the past I had found education majors to be somewhat weak and unmotivated. The last time I taught the course, however, themajorityofthestudentsweregraduateeducationstudentsworkingtoward their master’s degrees. I decided to challenge them right from the start: 1 Assignment. In An Outline of Set Theory, James Henle wrote about mat- matics: Every now and then it must pause to organize and re?ect on what it is and where it comes from. This happened in the sixth century B. C. when Euclid thought he had derived most of the mathematical results known at the time from ?ve postulates. Do a little research to ?nd as many errors as possible in the second sentence and write a short essay on them. Theresponsesfarexceededmyexpectations. Tobesure,someoftheund- graduates found the assignment unclear: I did not say how many errors they 2 were suppos | | 出版日期 | Textbook 2008 | | 关键词 | Isaac Newton; algebra; history of mathematics | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75481-9 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-2593-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-75481-9 | | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2008 |
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