عنوان

From calculus to computers :

(Number (ISBN

0883851784

Number

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Title Proper

From calculus to computers :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

using the last 200 years of mathematics history in the classroom /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Amy Shell-Gellasch and Dick Jardine

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Washington, DC :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Mathematical Association of America,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2005

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 255 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

28 cm

Series Title

MAA notes ;

Volume Designation

#68

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references

Text of Note

Arthur Cayley and the first paper on group theory / David J. Pengelley -- Putting the differential back into differential calculus / Robert Rogers -- Using Galois' ideas in the teaching of abstract algebra / Matt D. Lunsford -- Teaching elliptic curves using original sources / Lawrence D'Antonio -- Using the historical development of predator-prey models to teach mathematical modeling / Holly P. Hirst -- How to use history to clarify common confusions in geometry / Daina Taimina and David W. Henderson -- Euler on Cevians / Eisso J. Atzema and Homer White -- Modern geometry after the end of mathematics / Jeff Johannes -- Using 20th century history in a conbinatories and graph theory class / Linda E. McGuire -- Public key cryptography / Shai Simonson -- Introducing logic via Turing machines / Jerry M. Lodder -- From Hilbert's program to computer programming / William Calhoun -- From the tree method in modern logic to the beginning of automated theorem proofing / Francine F. Abeles -- Numerical methods history projects / Dick Jardine -- Foundations of statistics in American textbooks: probability and pedagogy in historical context / Patti Wilger Hunter -- Incorporating the mathematical achievements of women and minority mathematicians into classrooms / Sarah J. Greenwald -- Mathematical topics in an undergraduate history of science course / David Lindsay Roberts -- Building a history of mathematics course from a local perspective / Amy Shell-Gellasch -- Protractors in the classroom: an historical perspective / Amy Ackerberg-Hastings -- The metric system enters the American classroom: 1790-1890 / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell -- Some wrinkles for a history of mathematics course / Peter Ross -- Teaching history of mathematics through problems / John R. Prather

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Mathematics-- History

Jardine, Dick

Shell-Gellasch, Amy

Date of Transaction

20060313151346.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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