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History of mathematics and education : ideas and experiences / edited by Hans Niels Jahnke, Norbert Knoche und [sic] Michael Otte ; with contributions by William Aspray ... [et al.].
— Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, c1996. xi, 346 p. : il. ; 24 cm. — (Studien zur Wissenschafts-, Sozial- und Bildungsgeschichte der Mathematik ; Bd. 11)
Papers from a conference held autumn 1992 at the University of Essen.
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Contenido: William Aspray, Mathematics, computing, and practical engineering: some examples from electric power engineering — Helmut Behr, Teaching mathematics with historical components: some experiences and ideas — Maria G. Bartolini Bussi and Marcello Pergola, History in the mathematics classroom: linkages and kinematic geometry — Karine Chemla, Relations between procedure and demonstration. Measuring the circle in the Nine chapters on mathematical procedures and their commentary by Liu Hui (3rd century) — Joseph W. Dauben, Arguments, logic and proof: mathematics, logic and the infinite — Craig G. Fraser, Jacobi's result (1837) in the calculus of variations and its reformulation by Otto Hesse (1857). A study in the changing interpretation of mathematical theorems — Hans Niels Jahnke, Set and measure as an example of complementarity — Marta Menghini, The Euclidean method in geometry teaching — Michael Otte, Kuhn revisited — Marco Panza, Concept of function, between quantity and form, in the 18th century — Erhard Scholz, The doublesided nature of mathematics — Anna Sierpinska, The diachronic dimension in research on understanding in mathematics: usefulness and limitations of the concept of epistemological obstacle — Horst Struve, On the epistemology of mathematics in history and in school — Michael Toepell, Aspects to history of mathematics in the junior high school: 5th to 7th grade.
ISBN 3525403186 (pbk.)
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