Changing Images In Mathematics

Author : Umberto Bottazini,Amy Dahan Dalmedico
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134698745

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Changing Images in Mathematics by Umberto Bottazini,Amy Dahan Dalmedico Pdf

This book focuses on some of the major developments in the history of contemporary (19th and 20th century) mathematics as seen in the broader context of the development of science and culture. Avoiding technicalities, it displays the breadth of contrasting images of mathematics favoured by different countries, schools and historical movements, showing how the conception and practice of mathematics changed over time depending on the cultural and national context. Thus it provides an original perspective for embracing the richness and variety inherent in the development of mathematics. Attention is paid to the interaction of mathematics with themes whose proper treatment have been neglected by the traditional historiography of the discipline, such as the relationship between mathematics, statistics and medicine.

Author : Umberto Bottazini,Amy Dahan Dalmedico
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134698813

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Changing Images in Mathematics by Umberto Bottazini,Amy Dahan Dalmedico Pdf

This book focuses on some of the major developments in the history of contemporary (19th and 20th century) mathematics as seen in the broader context of the development of science and culture. Avoiding technicalities, it displays the breadth of contrasting images of mathematics favoured by different countries, schools and historical movements, showing how the conception and practice of mathematics changed over time depending on the cultural and national context. Thus it provides an original perspective for embracing the richness and variety inherent in the development of mathematics. Attention is paid to the interaction of mathematics with themes whose proper treatment have been neglected by the traditional historiography of the discipline, such as the relationship between mathematics, statistics and medicine.

Author : Bottazzini
Publisher : Harwood Academic Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 905823195X

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Changing Images in Mathematics by Bottazzini Pdf

Author : E. Roy Weintraub
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822328712

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How Economics Became a Mathematical Science by E. Roy Weintraub Pdf

DIVDiscusses the history of 20th century economics, and how it has become dominated by mathematical approaches./div

Author : Johnston-Wilder, Sue,Pimm, David
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335213818

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Teaching Secondary Mathematics With Ict by Johnston-Wilder, Sue,Pimm, David Pdf

This practical book shows the reader how to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to enhance mathematics teaching in the secondary sschool.

Author : G.C. Leder,Erkki Pehkonen,Günter Törner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780306479588

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Beliefs: A Hidden Variable in Mathematics Education? by G.C. Leder,Erkki Pehkonen,Günter Törner Pdf

This book focuses on aspects of mathematical beliefs, from a variety of different perspectives. Current knowledge of the field is synthesized and existing boundaries are extended. The volume is intended for researchers in the field, as well as for mathematics educators teaching the next generation of students.

Author : Alexei Sourin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030698355

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Making Images with Mathematics by Alexei Sourin Pdf

This textbook teaches readers how to turn geometry into an image on a computer screen. This exciting journey begins in the schools of the ancient Greek philosophers, and describes the major events that changed people’s perception of geometry. The readers will learn how to see geometry and colors beyond simple mathematical formulas and how to represent geometric shapes, transformations and motions by digital sampling of various mathematical functions. Special multiplatform visualization software developed by the author will allow readers to explore the exciting world of visual immersive mathematics, and the book software repository will provide a starting point for their own sophisticated visualization applications. Making Images with Mathematics serves as a self-contained text for a one-semester computer graphics and visualization course for computer science and engineering students, as well as a reference manual for researchers and developers.

Author : William V. Dunning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015039904407

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Changing Images of Pictorial Space by William V. Dunning Pdf

Author : Philip J. Davis
Publisher : A K Peters, Ltd.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1568812701

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Mathematics & Common Sense by Philip J. Davis Pdf

From the Preface: "This book is addressed to all who are curious about the nature of mathematics and its role in society. It is neither a text book nor a specialists' book. It consists of a number of loosely linked essays that may be read independently and for which I have tried to provide a leitmotif by throwing light on the relationship between mathematics and common sense. In these essays I hope to foster a critical attitude towards both the existence of common sense in mathematics and the ambiguous role that it can play."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1884 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UVA:X006195258

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Mathematical Reviews by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claudi Alsina,Roger B. Nelsen
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781614441007

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Math Made Visual by Claudi Alsina,Roger B. Nelsen Pdf

Is it possible to make mathematical drawings that help to understand mathematical ideas, proofs, and arguments? The [Author];s of this book are convinced that the answer is yes and the objective of this book is to show how some visualization techniques may be employed to produce pictures that have both mathematical and pedagogical interest. Mathematical drawings related to proofs have been produced since antiquity in China, Arabia, Greece, and India, but only in the last thirty years has there been a growing interest in so-called ``proofs without words''. Hundreds of these have been published in Mathematics Magazine and The College Mathematics Journal, as well as in other journals, books, and on the internet. Often a person encountering a ``proof without words'' may have the feeling that the pictures involved are the result of a serendipitous discovery or the consequence of an exceptional ingenuity on the part of the picture's creator. In this book, the [Author];s show that behind most of the pictures, ``proving'' mathematical relations are some well-understood methods. As the reader shall see, a given mathematical idea or relation may have many different images that justify it, so that depending on the teaching level or the objectives for producing the pictures, one can choose the best alternative.

Author : Siegfried Zielinski,David Link,Eckhard Fuerlus,Nadine Minkwitz
Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3865600506

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Variantology 2 by Siegfried Zielinski,David Link,Eckhard Fuerlus,Nadine Minkwitz Pdf

What does a thirteenth-century Majorcan missionary have to do with logical machines? Were the astrolabes of the late Middle Ages really only used to calculate the orbits of stars and planets, or were they philosophical instruments? Was the first avant garde in Russia more interested in Jesuit affect theory or H.G. Wells's time machine? Where do radar angels live? These excursions into the relationships between the arts, the sciences and technology lead neither to a revised history of art nor to a revised history of the media; they question our understanding of what we have defined as art and what we have seen as the media.

Author : Frédéric Brechenmacher,Guillaume Jouve,Laurent Mazliak,Rossana Tazzioli
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319400822

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Images of Italian Mathematics in France by Frédéric Brechenmacher,Guillaume Jouve,Laurent Mazliak,Rossana Tazzioli Pdf

The contributions in this proceedings volume offer a new perspective on the mathematical ties between France and Italy, and reveal how mathematical developments in these two countries affected one another. The focus is above all on the Peninsula’s influence on French mathematicians, counterbalancing the historically predominant perception that French mathematics was a model for Italian mathematicians. In the process, the book details a subtle network of relations between the two countries, where mathematical exchanges fit into the changing and evolving framework of Italian political and academic structures. It reconsiders the issue of nationalities in all of its complexity, an aspect often neglected in research on the history of mathematics. The works in this volume are selected contributions from a conference held in Lille and Lens (France) in November 2013 on Images of Italian Mathematics in France from Risorgimento to Fascism. The authors include respected historians of mathematics, philosophers of science, historians, and specialists for Italy and intellectual relations, ensuring the book will be of great interest to their peers.

Author : John Bryan Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126903421

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Recent Developments in Economic Methodology by John Bryan Davis Pdf

Author : Paolo Mancosu
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191559099

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The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice by Paolo Mancosu Pdf

Contemporary philosophy of mathematics offers us an embarrassment of riches. Among the major areas of work one could list developments of the classical foundational programs, analytic approaches to epistemology and ontology of mathematics, and developments at the intersection of history and philosophy of mathematics. But anyone familiar with contemporary philosophy of mathematics will be aware of the need for new approaches that pay closer attention to mathematical practice. This book is the first attempt to give a coherent and unified presentation of this new wave of work in philosophy of mathematics. The new approach is innovative at least in two ways. First, it holds that there are important novel characteristics of contemporary mathematics that are just as worthy of philosophical attention as the distinction between constructive and non-constructive mathematics at the time of the foundational debates. Secondly, it holds that many topics which escape purely formal logical treatment - such as visualization, explanation, and understanding - can nonetheless be subjected to philosophical analysis. The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice comprises an introduction by the editor and eight chapters written by some of the leading scholars in the field. Each chapter consists of short introduction to the general topic of the chapter followed by a longer research article in the area. The eight topics selected represent a broad spectrum of contemporary philosophical reflection on different aspects of mathematical practice: diagrammatic reasoning and representation systems; visualization; mathematical explanation; purity of methods; mathematical concepts; the philosophical relevance of category theory; philosophical aspects of computer science in mathematics; the philosophical impact of recent developments in mathematical physics.