Vita Mathematica will enable teachers to learn the relevant history of various topics in the undergraduate curriculum and help them incorporate this history in their teaching. It contains articles dealing not only with calculus, but also with algebra, combinatorics, graph theory, and geometry, as well as more general articles on teaching courses for prospective teachers, and describes courses taught entirely using original sources. Judith Grabiner shows us how two important eighteenth century mathematicians, Colin Maclaurin and Joseph-Louis Lagrange, understood the calculus from these different standpoints and how their legacy is still important in teaching calculus today. We learn from Hans Nils Jahnke why Lagrange's algebraic approach dominated teaching in Germany in the nineteenth century. Wilbur Knorr traces the ancient history of one of the possible foundations, the concept of indivisibles. This volume demonstrates that the history of mathematics is no longer tangential to the mathematics curriculum, but in fact deserves a central role.
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Vita Mathematica will enable college teachers to learn the relevant history of various topics in the undergraduate curriculum and help them incorporate this history in their teaching. It contains numerous articles dealing not only with calculus, but also with algebra, combinatorics, graph theory, and geometry, as well as more general articles on teaching courses for prospective teachers, and describes courses taught entirely using original sources.
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- Mathematical Expeditions: Chronicles by the Explorers (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) by Reinhard Laubenbacher in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Using History to Teach Mathematics: An International Perspective (Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library) by Victor J. Katz in Front Matter, page 199, and page 211
- Mathematics Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics (Science Across Cultures: the History of Non-Western Science) by Ubiratan D'Ambrosio on page 92, and page 188
- Innovations in Teaching Statistics by Joan B. Garfield in Front Matter
- Geometry Turned On: Dynamic Software in Learning, Teaching, and Research (Mathematical Association of America Notes) by Doris Schattschneider in Front Matter
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