A Definition of Mathematical Beauty and Its History [PDF]
, 2012 I define mathematical beauty as cognisability and trace the import of this notion through several episodes from the history of ...
Viktor Blåsjö +3 more
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Mathematics and geometric ornamentation in the medieval Islamic world [PDF]
, 2012 We discuss medieval Arabic and Persian sources on the design and construction of geometric ornaments in Islamic ...
Hogendijk, J.P. +3 more
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An analysis of history of mathematics research literature in Turkey: the mathematics education perspective [PDF]
, 2016 Research in history of mathematics gained momentum in the past two decades in Turkey. The present paper aims to describe the patterns in the history of mathematics research in Turkey and to analyse the research in Turkey using a mathematics education ...
AYDIN, EMİN
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Writing the History of Mathematics: Interpretations of the Mathematics of the Past and Its Relation to the Mathematics of Today [PDF]
, 2021 In the present chapter, interpretations of the mathematics of the past are problematized, based on examples such as archeological artifacts, as well as written sources from the ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, and Greek civilizations.
Pejlare, Johanna +5 more
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THE STUDY OF HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS [PDF]
School Science and Mathematics, 1906 n ...
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The scholar and the fencing master: The exchanges between Joseph Justus Scaliger and Ludolph van Ceulen on the circle quadrature (1594-1596) [PDF]
, 2010 In Chapter 21 of Vanden Circkel (On the Circle) [Van Ceulen, 1596], the arithmetic teacher and fencing master Ludolph van Ceulen published his analysis of 16 propositions which had been submitted to him by an anonymous “highly learned man”. In this paper,
Hogendijk, Jan P. +4 more
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History of Mathematics in Mathematics Education : an Overview [PDF]
, 2019 mathematica didactica, Vol. 42 No.
Clark, Kathleen M. +3 more
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History: A mathematical revolutionary [PDF]
Nature, 2015 Davide Castelvecchi reviews a hefty biography of the prolific Enlightenment luminary Leonhard Euler.
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Quem somos nós, professores de matemática?
Cadernos CedesAo saber quem são seus avôs, bisavôs e mesmo tataravôs profissionais, o professor de matemática passa a ver o trabalho de seus colegas contemporâneos, e seu próprio fazer docente, de outro modo. Dá a seu ofício uma dimensão histórica.
Wagner Rodrigues Valente
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Hyperbolic space for tourists [PDF]
, 2013 We discuss how a creature accustomed to Euclidean space would fare in a world of hyperbolic or spherical geometry, and conversely. Various optical illusions and counterintuitive experiences arise, which can be explicated mathematically using plane models
History and Foundations of Mathematics +2 more
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