Author: Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788763512695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Otto Fabricius and the Seals of Greenland
Author: Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788763512695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British MuseumRay Society
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Bibliographia Zoologiae Et Geologiae: Volume 1
Author: Louis AgassizPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108062504
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
This four-volume catalogue, published 1848-54, provides an extensive list of the zoological and geological literature available at the time.
On the Analytical Representation of Direction
Author: Caspar WesselPublisher: Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
ISBN: 9788778761583
Category : Geometry
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
History in Mathematics Education
Author: John FauvelPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0306472201
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This ground-breaking book investigates how the learning and teaching of mathematics can be improved through integrating the history of mathematics into all aspects of mathematics education: lessons, homework, texts, lectures, projects, assessment, and curricula. It draws upon evidence from the experience of teachers as well as national curricula, textbooks, teacher education practices, and research perspectives across the world. It includes a 300-item annotated bibliography of recent work in the field in eight languages.
Tales of Impossibility
Author: David S. RichesonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691218722
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematics Tales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of the most famous and studied questions in the history of mathematics. First posed by the ancient Greeks, these compass and straightedge problems—squaring the circle, trisecting an angle, doubling the cube, and inscribing regular polygons in a circle—have served as ever-present muses for mathematicians for more than two millennia. David Richeson follows the trail of these problems to show that ultimately their proofs—which demonstrated the impossibility of solving them using only a compass and straightedge—depended on and resulted in the growth of mathematics. Richeson investigates how celebrated luminaries, including Euclid, Archimedes, Viète, Descartes, Newton, and Gauss, labored to understand these problems and how many major mathematical discoveries were related to their explorations. Although the problems were based in geometry, their resolutions were not, and had to wait until the nineteenth century, when mathematicians had developed the theory of real and complex numbers, analytic geometry, algebra, and calculus. Pierre Wantzel, a little-known mathematician, and Ferdinand von Lindemann, through his work on pi, finally determined the problems were impossible to solve. Along the way, Richeson provides entertaining anecdotes connected to the problems, such as how the Indiana state legislature passed a bill setting an incorrect value for pi and how Leonardo da Vinci made elegant contributions in his own study of these problems. Taking readers from the classical period to the present, Tales of Impossibility chronicles how four unsolvable problems have captivated mathematical thinking for centuries.
Pythagorean-Hodograph Curves: Algebra and Geometry Inseparable
Author: Rida T FaroukiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540733981
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 725
Book Description
By virtue of their special algebraic structures, Pythagorean-hodograph (PH) curves offer unique advantages for computer-aided design and manufacturing, robotics, motion control, path planning, computer graphics, animation, and related fields. This book offers a comprehensive and self-contained treatment of the mathematical theory of PH curves, including algorithms for their construction and examples of their practical applications. It emphasizes the interplay of ideas from algebra and geometry and their historical origins and includes many figures, worked examples, and detailed algorithm descriptions.
On the Teaching of Linear Algebra
Author: J.-L. DorierPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0306472244
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book presents the state-of-the-art research on the teaching and learning of linear algebra in the first year of university, in an international perspective. It provides university teachers in charge of linear algebra courses with a wide range of information from works including theoretical and experimental issues.