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Developed from a course on the history of mathematics, the book is aimed at school teachers of mathematics who need to learn more about mathematics than its history, and in a way they can communicate to middle and high school students. The author hopes to overcome, through these teachers using this book, math phobia among these students.

The book develops an appreciation mathematics by not only looking at the work of individual, including Euclid, Euler, Gauss, etc. but also how mathematics developed from ancient civilizations. Brahmins (Hindu priests) devised our current decimal number system now adopted throughout the world. The concept of limit, which is what calculus is all about, was not alien to ancient civilizations as Archimedes used a method similar to the Riemann sums to compute the surface area and volume of the sphere.

No theorem is here cited in a proof that has not been proved earlier in the book. There are some exceptions when it comes to the frontier of cu

Number Theory and Geometry through History

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      Publisher CRC Press
      Published 5/22/2025
      ISBN-13 9781041010166
      978-1041010166
      ISBN-10 1041010168
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      Mathematics Philosophy of mathematics

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Developed from a course on the history of mathematics, the book is aimed at school teachers of mathematics who need to learn more about mathematics than its history, and in a way they can communicate to middle and high school students. The author hopes to overcome, through these teachers using this book, math phobia among these students.

      The book develops an appreciation mathematics by not only looking at the work of individual, including Euclid, Euler, Gauss, etc. but also how mathematics developed from ancient civilizations. Brahmins (Hindu priests) devised our current decimal number system now adopted throughout the world. The concept of limit, which is what calculus is all about, was not alien to ancient civilizations as Archimedes used a method similar to the Riemann sums to compute the surface area and volume of the sphere.

      No theorem is here cited in a proof that has not been proved earlier in the book. There are some exceptions when it comes to the frontier of cu

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