Complex Numbers and Vectors
Contributors: Leigh-Lancaster, David
Series: MathsWorks for Teachers; MathsWorks for Teachers
Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Research
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Camberwell
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781423787617
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Complex Numbers; Mathematics
Description: Complex Numbers and Vectors draws on the power of intrigue and uses appealingapplications from navigation, global positioning systems, earthquakes, circus actsand stories from mathematical history to explain the mathematics of vectors andthe discoveries in complex numbers.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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Table of contents: title: Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; About the author; 1 Complex numbers and vectors in the secondary curriculum; 2 A tale of intrigue and imagination; 3 Secrecy, contrivance and inspiration; 4 Form and structure: A careful exposition on operating with complex numbers; 5 The genius of Gauss; 6 Mathematicians can read maps; 7 Plotting a course; 8 Sailing against the wind; 9 It's a circus; 10 It's now possible to know where we are!; 11 Pons asinorum - the asses' bridge; 12 Curriculum connections; 13 Solution notes to student activities; References and further reading.