Marcel Danesi

Alcuin's Recreational Mathematics (eBook, PDF)

River Crossings and other Timeless Puzzles

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Alcuin's Recreational Mathematics demonstrates the notions of basic mathematics using the 53 problems found in the early ninth-century text Propositiones ad acuendos juvenes ("Problems to Sharpen the Young") by the famous medieval cleric and teacher Alcuin of York.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198925316
• Artikelnr.: 72262189

Autorenporträt

Professor Marcel Danesi is Professor Emeritus of linguistic anthropology at the University of Toronto. He directed the Program in Semiotics and, together with various cognitive scientists and mathematicians, founded the CogSci Center for the study of mathematics and mind at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. He has published considerably in several areas of recreational mathematics and mathematics education. His research examines the relationship between mathematical cognition, language, and the arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Arithmetic
2: Countability
3: Geometry
4: Algebra
5: Diophantine Problems
6: Recreational Logic
7: River Crossing Problems
8: Sequences
9: Measurement
10: Assembly and Partitioning Problems
Concluding Remarks
Answers and Solutions to the Explorations
Index