From calculus to computers : using the last 200 years of mathematics history in the classroom /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Mathematical Association of America,
c2005.
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| Series: | MAA notes ;
#68 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.