From Calculus to Computers
Subtitle: Using the Last 200 Years of Mathematics History in the Classroom (Mathematical Association of America Notes)
Contributors: Amy Shell-Gellasch (Editor); Dick Jardine (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Published: October 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780883851784
Subjects: History of mathematics; Teaching of a specific subject; Science/Mathematics; Mathematics; General; Mathematics / General
First sentence: Arthur Cayley's 1854 paper On the theory of groups, as depending on the symbolic equation n = 1 inaugurated the abstract idea of a group [2].