Digital Teaching
Because of the pandemic all events of this module will happen in digital form.
The lecture will happen tuesdays at 15.20 - 17.00 via Zoom.
After registering for the course you can find more details on the moodle platform under
https://moodle.tu-darmstadt.de/course/view.php?id=25508
Lehrinhalte
Mathematics in their cultural and historical context from antiquity to present day. Embedded within among other topics:
- Numbers from antiquity to modern times;
- Irrational numbers, Fibonacci numbers, continued fractions;
- Infinity from Zenon to Cantor;
- Infinitely small quantities, measure theory, and non-standard analysis;
- School mathematics versus university mathematics;
- Astronomy and mathematics.
Literature
Victor Katz: A History of Mathematics. Harper Collins, 1993.
C. Boyer: A History of Mathematics. John Wiley, 1968ff.
C. C. Gillispie: Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Charles Scribners Sons, 1970 - 1991.
P. J. Davies, R. Hersh: Erfahrung Mathematik. Birkhäuser, 1994.
M. Kline: Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times. Oxford University Press, 1972.
H. Wußing: 6000 Jahre Mathematik. Springer, 2008.
Voraussetzungen
recommended: Analysis and Linear Algebra
Because of the pandemic all events of this module will happen in digital form.
The lecture will happen tuesdays at 15.20 - 17.00 via Zoom.
After registering for the course you can find more details on the moodle platform under
https://moodle.tu-darmstadt.de/course/view.php?id=25508
Lehrinhalte
Mathematics in their cultural and historical context from antiquity to present day. Embedded within among other topics:
- Numbers from antiquity to modern times;
- Irrational numbers, Fibonacci numbers, continued fractions;
- Infinity from Zenon to Cantor;
- Infinitely small quantities, measure theory, and non-standard analysis;
- School mathematics versus university mathematics;
- Astronomy and mathematics.
Literature
Victor Katz: A History of Mathematics. Harper Collins, 1993.
C. Boyer: A History of Mathematics. John Wiley, 1968ff.
C. C. Gillispie: Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Charles Scribners Sons, 1970 - 1991.
P. J. Davies, R. Hersh: Erfahrung Mathematik. Birkhäuser, 1994.
M. Kline: Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times. Oxford University Press, 1972.
H. Wußing: 6000 Jahre Mathematik. Springer, 2008.
Voraussetzungen
recommended: Analysis and Linear Algebra
- Lehrende: Burkhard Kümmerer
- Lehrende: Malte Ott
Semester: ST 2021