“Nowhere in all ancient mathematics do we find any attempt at what we call demonstration. No argumentation was presented, but only the prescription of certain rules: "Do such and so." We are ignorant of the way the theorems were found... To those who have been educated in Euclid's strict argumentation, the entire Oriental way of reasoning seems at first strange and highly unsatisfactory. But this strangeness wears off when we realize that most of the mathematics we teach our present-day engineers and technicians is still of the "do such, do so" type, without much attempt at rigorous demonstration. Algebra is still being taught in many high schools as a set of rules rather than as a science of deduction. Oriental mathematics never seems to have been emancipated from the millenial influence of the problems of technology and administration, for the use of which it had been invented.”
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“By the beginning of the seventeenth century we may say that the fundamental principles of arithmetic, algebra, theory of equations, and trigonometry had been laid down, and the outlines of the subject...”
Mathematics education
“All the modern higher mathematics is based on a calculus of operations, on laws of thought. All mathematics, from the first, was so in reality; but the evolvers of the modern higher calculus have know...”
Mathematics education
“The author holds that our school curricula, by stripping mathematics of its cultural content and leaving a bare skeleton of technicalities, have repelled many a fine mind. It is the aim of this book t...”
Mathematics education
“Although there is no study which presents so simple a beginning as that of geometry, there is none in which difficulties grow more rapidly as we proceed, and what may appear at first rather paradoxica...”
Mathematics education