Math through the ages : : a gentle history for teachers and others / Expanded 2nd edition.

Math through the ages : : a gentle history for teachers and others /

Expanded 2nd edition.

Material type: 図書

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Publisher: A Joint Publication of Oxton House Publishers and the Mathematical Association of America,

Publication date: c2015.

Material Format: Paper

Capacity, size, etc.: xiv, 331 pages : ; 24 cm.

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Note (General)：: Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- History in the mathematics classroom -- The History of Mathematics in a Large Nutshel...

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Material Type: 図書
ISBN: 1939512123 (MAA)
1881929663 (Oxton House)
9781939512123 (MAA)
9781881929666 (Oxton House)
Title: Math through the ages : : a gentle history for teachers and others /
Edition: Expanded 2nd edition.
Publication, Distribution, etc.: Farmington, ME ; : A Joint Publication of Oxton House Publishers and the Mathematical Association of America,
Publication Date: c2015.
Extent: xiv, 331 pages : ; 24 cm.
Contributor: William P. Berlinghoff, Fernando Q. Gouvêa.
Text Language Code: eng
NDC 10th ed.: 410.2 : Mathematics
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- History in the mathematics classroom -- The History of Mathematics in a Large Nutshell: Beginnings ; Greek mathematics ; Meanwhile, in India ; Arabic mathematics ; Medieval Europe ; The 15th and 16th centuries ; Algebra comes of age ; Calculus and applied mathematics ; Rigor and professionalism ; Abstraction, computers, and new applications ; Mathematics today -- Sketches: 1. Keeping count : writing whole numbers ; 2. Reading and writing arithmetic : the basic symbols ; 3. Nothing becomes a number : the story of zero ; 4. Broken numbers : writing fractions ; 5. Less than nothing? : negative numbers ; 6. By tens and tenths : metric measurement ; 7. Measuring the circle : the story of pi ; 8. The Cossic art : writing algebra with symbols; 9. Linear thinking : solving first degree equations; 10. A square and things : quadratic equations; 11. Intrigue in Renaissance Italy : solving cubic equations; 12. A cheerful fact : the Pythagorean theorem; 13. A marvelous proof : Fermat's last theorem; 14. On beauty bare : Euclid's plane geometry ; 15. In perfect shape : the Platonic solids ;16. Shapes by the numbers : coordinate geometry ; 17. Impossible, imaginary, useful : complex numbers ; 18. Half is better : sine and cosine ; 19. Strange new worlds : the non-Euclidean geometries ; 20. In the eye of the beholder : projective geometry ; 21. What's in a game? : the start of probability theory ; 22. Making sense of data : statistics becomes a science ; 23. Machines that think? : electronic computers ; 24. The arithmetic of reasoning : Boolean algebra ; 25. Beyond counting : infinity and the theory of sets ; 26. Out of the shadows : the tangent function ; 27. Counting ratios : logarithms ; 28. Any way you slice it : conic sections ; 29. Beyond the pale : irrational numbers ; 30. Barely touching : from tangents to derivatives -- What to Read Next: The reference shelf ; Twelve historical books you ought to read ; History Online -- When they lived.
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OCLC No.: 2015951223
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