A History of Mathematics (3rd Edition) 3rd Edition by Victor J. Katz (PDF)

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A History of Mathematics, Third Edition, provides students with a solid background in the history of mathematics and focuses on the most important topics for today’s elementary, high school, and college curricula. Students will gain a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts in their historical context, and future teachers will find this book a valuable resource in developing lesson plans based on the history of each topic. This book is ideal for a junior or senior level course in the history of mathematics for mathematics majors intending to become teachers.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Victor J. Katz received his PhD in mathematics from Brandeis University in 1968 and has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of the District of Columbia for many years. He has long been interested in the history of mathematics and, in particular, in its use in teaching. He is the editor of The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India and Islam: A Sourcebook (2007). He has edited or co-edited two recent books dealing with this subject, Learn from the Masters (1994) and Using History to Teach Mathematics (2000). Dr. Katz also co-edited a collection of historical articles taken from MAA journals of the past 90 years, Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and other Tales of Mathematical History. He has directed two NSF-sponsored projects to help college teachers learn the history of mathematics and learn to use it in teaching. Dr. Katz has also involved secondary school teachers in writing materials using history in the teaching of various topics in the high school curriculum. These materials, Historical Modules for the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, have now been published by the MAA. Currently, Dr. Katz is the PI on an NSF grant to the MAA that supports Convergence, an online magazine devoted to the history of mathematics and its use in teaching.

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⭐interesting subject. my professor was terrible but that’s another story. I learned a lot from this class. sometimes the info can be a bit dense and I feel like they jump from subject to subject like they will talk about one mathematician and then another one but then go back to the original one. so you have all this material about one particular person written all over the textbook. it can make studying difficult.

⭐I absolutely hate this book. You will need other resources all together in order to work through the problems.

⭐This book is an interesting read. I never though I would enjoy reading about math but this book is very engaging

⭐Great book! It came in good condition. 🙂

⭐The book is very insightful. I wish that I would have read this book in my first year of teaching.

⭐This book came with the spine completely brolen

⭐Great text

⭐Omg what a book in not so positive way (( I struggled with it so much during the course. The instructions are not clear and not enough information. I used the internet source for the course 98% of the time to finish homework assignments.

⭐Gives a thorough account of the history of mathematics but there are a couple of typos.

⭐The book was new, just like described. Fast shipping

⭐Esta obra de gran formato y cuidada edición puede considerarse como libro de texto sobre la historia de las matemáticas, o como obra de consulta. Tiene multiples recursos didácticos, y al final de cada capítulo cuenta con bibliografía y ejercicios. Contiene también breves apuntes biográficos de muchos matemáticos. Está convenientemente ilustrada. Encuentro muy adecuado el criterio de división de los capítulos, a la vez cronológica y temáticamente. Por ejemplo en el capítulo 20 se trata la geometría en el siglo XVIII, y en el capítulo 24 la geometría en el siglo XIX.Esta es una historia del desarrollo de las matemáticas empleando muchas veces ilustraciones de las obras originales, siguiendo su nomenclatura en la exposición, aunque proporcionando también el equivalente con la nomenclatura moderna.A veces seguir los pasos requiere gran atención, incluso tener papel y lapiz a mano para completar ciertos saltos, o pararse a pensar. Ciertamente hay que tener una base matemática suficiente, no es una obra de estilo narrativo como puede ser “A Concise History of Mathematics” de Struik.Pero aún teniendo una formación “moderna”, por ejemplo en cálculo, es fascinante asomarse a los comienzos del Cálculo, capítulo 15, y contrastar luego en el capítulo 16 las formas dispares en que Newton y Leibniz crearon el Cálculo. Y cuanto más se estudian las obras de esos gigantes y de muchos otros autores menos conocidos, mayor es el asombro y la admiración por sus logros. Una valiosísima obra la de Victor J. Katz, tanto para el estudio metódico como para el disfrute ocasional.

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