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| Autore principale: | Grattan Guinness, Ivor, 1941-2014.
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| Titolo: | Routes of learning : highways, pathways and byways in the history of mathematics / Ivor Grattan-Guinness. |
| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins university press, c2009. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XII, 372 p. ; 23 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: Preface. 1. Searching for reasons: my way in and onward. Pt. 1. Highways in the history of mathematics: 2. The mathematics of the past: distinguishing its history from our heritage 3. Decline, then recovery: an overview of activity in the history of mathematics during the twentieth century 4. On certain somewhat neglected features of the history of mathematics 5. General histories of mathematics? Of use? To whom? 6. Too mathematical for historians, too historical for mathematicians 7. History of science journals: to be useful, and to the living? 8. Scientific revolutions as convolutions? A skeptical inquiry. Pt. 2. Pathways in mathematics education: 9. On the revelance of the history of mathematics to mathematical education 10. Achilles is still running 11. Numbers, magnitudes, ratio and proportion in Euclid's Elements: how did he handle them? 12. Some neglected niches in teh understanding and teaching of numbers and number systems 13. What was and what should be the calculus?. Pt. 3. Byways in mathematics and its culture: 14. Manifestations of mathematics in and around the Christianities: some example and issue 15. Christianity and mathematics: kinds of links and the rare occurrences after 1750 16. Mozart 18, Beethoven 32: hidden shadows of integers in classical music 17. Lagrange and mozart as critics of Descartes. Pt. 4. Lollipops: 18. Four pretty but little known theorems involving the triangle. Index |
| ISBN: | 9780801892486 |
| Discipline: | Matematica--Studi specifici. Matematica--Scuole e università. Religione e scienza--Studi. |
| Collocazione: | LS 18203 |
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