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Dreams of Calculus presents evidence that mathematics education today is in a process of change of paradigm, caused by the revolutionary new possibilities offered by the computer. The authors complement the physicist Eugene Wigner's famous statement concerning "the unreasonable effectivene...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffman, Johan
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Johnson, Claes, Logg, Anders
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
Subjects:
Mathematics.
Global analysis (Mathematics)
Computer science > Mathematics.
Mathematical physics.
Engineering.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Perspectives
  • Introduction
  • What? How? For Whom? Why?- A Brief History of Mathematics Education
  • What is Mathematics?- Mountain Climbing
  • Jazz/Pop/Folk vs Classical Music
  • Virtual Reality and the Matrix
  • 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!- The Need of Mathematics According to the Mathematics Delegation
  • An Agenda
  • Essence
  • A Very Short Calculus Course
  • The Solar System
  • Turbulence and the Clay Prize
  • Appendix: The Mathematics Delegation and its Task
  • Preface to Body & Soul
  • Do Mathematicians Quarrel?