IN the evolution of the teaching of mathematics, many thoughtful teachers frequently examine critically the basic concepts of the subject in order to make quite sure that the edifice they are ...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. --When Isaac Newton formulated the laws of motion during the late 17th century, he had to use the language of geometry to communicate the ideas of differential calculus to ...
THE author of this little book writes as if it were the first of its kind, and in encouraging his readers he continually jeers at the professional mathematician in whatmight be regarded as reckless ...
In order to better understand capitalism, Karl Marx taught himself parts of algebra and calculus. Nevertheless, he was not a mathematical genius. The historian of science and mathematician Annette ...