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  • Analysing Historical Mathematics Textbooks

    by Gert Schubring ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is about the creation and production of textbooks for learning and teaching mathematics. It covers a period from Antiquity to Modern Times. The analysis begins by assessing principal cultures with a practice of mathematics. The tension between the role of the teacher and his oral mode, on the one hand, and the use of a written (printed) text, in their respective relation with the student ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education

    Edited by Alexander Karp, Gert Schubring ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This is the first comprehensive International Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education, covering a wide spectrum of epochs and civilizations, countries and cultures. Until now, much of the research into the rich and varied history of mathematics education has remained inaccessible to the vast majority of scholars, not least because it has been written in the language, and for readers, of ... Read more

    $332.09 USD

  • The Legacy of Felix Klein

    Edited by Hans-Georg Weigand, William McCallum, Marta Menghini, Michael Neubrand, Gert Schubring ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book provides an overview of Felix Klein’s ideas, highlighting developments in university teaching and school mathematics related to Klein’s thoughts, stemming from the last century. It discusses the meaning, importance and the legacy of Klein’s ideas today and in the future, within an international, global context. Presenting extended versions of the talks at the Thematic ... Read more

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  • Interfaces between Mathematical Practices and Mathematical Education

    Edited by Gert Schubring ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This contributed volume investigates the active role of the different contexts of mathematics teaching on the evolution of the practices of mathematical concepts, with particular focus on their foundations. The book aims to deconstruct the strong and generally wide-held conviction that research in mathematics constitutes the only driving force for any progress in the development of mathematics as ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Hermann Günther Graßmann (1809-1877): Visionary Mathematician, Scientist and Neohumanist Scholar

    Edited by Gert Schubring ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    In this volume specialists in mathematics, physics, and linguistics present the first comprehensive analysis of the ideas and influence of Hermann G. Graßmann (1809-1877), the remarkable universalist whose work recast the foundations of these disciplines and shaped the course of their modern development. ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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    The Primogenital Matrix of Life and Its Context

    Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Life appears ungraspable, yet its understanding lies at the heart of current preoccupations. In our attempt to understand life through its origins, the ambition of the present collection is to unravel the network of the origin of the various spheres of sense that carry it onwards. The primogenital matrix of generation (Tymieniecka), elaborated as the fulcrum of this collection, elucidates the main ... Read more

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  • Changing Images in Mathematics

    From the French Revolution to the New Millennium

    Edited by Umberto Bottazini, Amy Dahan Dalmedico ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    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 ... Read more

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    A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

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  • Unended Quest

    An Intellectual Autobiography

    by Karl Popper ...
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    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by Rhodes Barrett ...
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  • Mathematics without Apologies

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