author: gert schubring

Conflicts Between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition: Number Concepts Underlying the Development of Analysis in 17th-19th Century France and Germany

... irrational numbers , positive numbers by negative numbers , and real numbers by imaginary numbers . This advance , however , occurred initially with a fearfully hesitant step . The first algebraists preferred to call negative roots of ...

Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education

... algebra, geometry, plane and spherical trigonometry, it deals with the measurement of heights, distances, surfaces ... Chrystal's textbooks. Chrystal graduated from Aberdeen University in 1871 and became second wrangler at Cambridge, in ...

Analysing Historical Mathematics Textbooks

Gert Schubring. Chemla, Karine (2014). On the Sources of the Historian of Sciuence ... Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de (1883a), Methodo para aprender a ... Pierre (1988). L'Oratoire de France et ses Collèges. In L'enseignement des ...

“Dig Where You Stand” 7: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education. September 19-23, 2022, Mainz, Germany

... fast way, thus justifying the Greek prefix tachy, which means fast, that ... speed and the practicality associated with its principles, led the method to be ... Mnemonic Reform, (7) Reform of Continuous Syllogism, (8) Reform of All ...

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