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Dreams of calculus : perspectives on mathematics education by Hoffman, Johan

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TitleDreams of calculus : perspectives on mathematics education
CreatorHoffman, Johan, Johnson, Claes, 1943-, Logg, Anders
Year2004
PPI300
PublisherBerlin ; New York : Springer
LanguageEnglish
Mediatypetexts
SubjectCalculus
ISBN3540219765
Collectionfolkscanomy_miscellaneous, folkscanomy, additional_collections
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Identifierspringer_10.1007-978-3-642-18586-1
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Dreams of Calculus: Perspectives on Mathematics EducationAuthor: Johan Hoffman, Claes Johnson, Anders Logg Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-21976-7 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18586-1Table of Contents:Introduction What? How? For Whom? Why? A Brief History of Mathematics Education What is Mathematics? Virtual Reality and the Matrix Mountain Climbing Scientific Revolutions Education is Based on Science The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences? Do We live in “The Best of Worlds”? The Reasonable Effectiveness of Computational Mathematics Jazz/Pop/Folk vs. Classical Music The Right to Not Know An Agenda A Very Short Calculus Course The Solar System Turbulence and the Clay Prize Do Mathematicians Quarrel?