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, ©1996.
xi, 346 págs. : ilustraciones ; 24 cm.
Serie: Studien zur Wissenschafts-, Sozial- und Bildungsgeschichte der Mathematik ; Bd. 11
ISBN: 3525403186 (pbk.)
Papers from a conference held autumn 1992 at the University of Essen.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas.
Reseña: MathSciNet, 97f:01002
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.