{"product_id":"routes-of-learning-9780801892479","title":"Routes of Learning","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll historians of mathematics and students of the field will want a copy of this remarkable resource on their bookshelves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, Grattan-Guinness, one of the world's leading mathematics historians, has written the seminal how-to-book for the history of mathematics... This reviewer found the book hard to put down. Choice 2010 In spite of the great variation in themes, the book is quite coherent and gives anyone dealing with the history of mathematics food for thought. -- Teun Koetsier History and Philosophy of Logic 2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e1. Searching for Reasons: My Way In and Onward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Highways in the History of Mathematics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. The Mathematics of the Past: Distinguishing Its History from Our Heritage\u003cbr\u003e3. Decline, Then Recovery: An Overview of Activity in the History of Mathematics during the Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e4. On Certain Somewhat Neglected Features of the History of Mathematics\u003cbr\u003e5. General Histories of Mathematics? Of Use? To Whom?\u003cbr\u003e6. Too Mathematical for Historians, Too Historicalfor Mathematicians\u003cbr\u003e7. History of Science Journals: \"To Be Useful, and to the Living\"?\u003cbr\u003e8. Scientific Revolutions as Convolutions? A Skeptical Inquiry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: Pathways in Mathematics Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. On the Relevance of the History of Mathematics to Mathematical Education\u003cbr\u003e10. Achilles Is Still Running\u003cbr\u003e11. Numbers, Magnitudes, Ratios, and Proportions in Euclid's Elements: How Did He Handle Them?\u003cbr\u003e12. Some Neglected Niches in the Understanding and Teaching of Numbers and Number Systems\u003cbr\u003e13. What Was and What Should Be the Calculus?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3: Byways in Mathematics and its Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14. Manifestations of Mathematics in and around the Christianities: Some Examples and Issues\u003cbr\u003e15. Christianity and Mathematics: Kinds of Links, and the Rare Occurrences after 1750\u003cbr\u003e16. Mozart 18, Beethoven 32: Hidden Shadows of Integers in Classical Music\u003cbr\u003e17. Lagrange and Mozart as Critics of Descartes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4: Lollipops\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18. Four Pretty but Little-Known Theorems Involving the Triangle\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405207839063,"sku":"9780801892479","price":64.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801892479.jpg?v=1730489113","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/routes-of-learning-9780801892479","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}