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Re: History
Posted:
Sep 2, 2000 10:11 AM
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O. Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
Actually read some Euclid and the "Eureka" guy, Archimedes; follow some
good & clear and some not-so-clear propositions of Euclid
Look at ETBell, *Men* of Mathematics
Dunham, Mathematical Universe
Maor, Trigonometric Delights
Kaplan's history of Zero
Gullberg, Mathematics from the birth of Numbers
recent book on the square root of negative 1
The making of the Atomic Bomb (maybe)
There are others, as well.
But this is a start.
Guy Brandenburg
Tena Roepke wrote:
>
> One of my teaching assignments for this year will be to teach math
> history to a group of primarily pre-service grades 4-9 mathematics
> teachers. I'm excited about this but am asking for some input concerning
> content for the course, textbook, resources, ways to make this material
> relevant to these students given math background and future ambitions to
> teach math in the middle grades. These students will have a background
> in our standard el. ed. math courses, algebra/trig, introductory
> statistics, finite math, and at least two quarters of calculus.
>
> Please send any ideas or positive suggestions via private e-mail to
> t-roepke@onu.edu. Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Tena Roepke
> Ohio Northern University
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