Computations and computing devices in mathematics education before the advent of electronic calculators. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Alexei Volkov and Viktor Freiman.
• Editors: Volkov, Alexeï; Freiman, Viktor
• Contents: Introduction, by A. Volkov and V. Freiman.- Part 1. Middle East and Greece in Antiquity and Middle Ages.- Chapter 1. 'Computation in Early Mesopotamia, ' by Duncan Melville.- Chapter 2. 'Computations in Ancient Mesopotamian Mathematics: from Ur III to the Seleucid period', by Jens Hoyrup.- Chapter 3. 'Computation Techniques in Ancient Greek Sources, ' by Fabio Acerbi.- Chapter 4. 'Procedural aspects in Nicomachus' Arithmetic introduction and its transmission to Byzantine higher education, ' by Jean Christianidis and Athanasia Megremi.- Part 2: Oriental traditions.- Chapter 5. 'Counting instruments and computations in traditional Chinese mathematics: didactical aspects, ' by Alexei Volkov.- Chapter 6. 'Dust computations in the Lilavati, ' by Takanori Kusuba.- Chapter 7. 'The role of the prescription of division in the algorithmic approach for setting up tabular algebraic equations in medieval China and India: a comparison, ' by Charlotte-V. Pollet.- Chapter 8. 'Same Rods, Same Calculation? Contextualizing Computations in Eighteenth-Century Korea, ' by Oh Young-Sook.- Chapter 9. 'On the History of Exercises in the Computations Performed with the Abacus in China and Japan, ' by Chen Yi-Fu.- Chapter 10. 'Teaching computation in 19th century Japan: the transition from individual coaching on traditional devices at the end of the Edo period (1600-1868) to lectures on Western mathematics during the Meiji period (1868-1912), ' by Marion Cousin.- Part 3. Early modern Europe and Russia.- Chapter 11. 'Computation Devices in 19th Century Mathematics Instruction in Europe, ' by Gert Schubring.- Chapter 12. 'Teaching computation in Russia, ' by Alexander Karp.- Chapter 13. 'Computational devices in 19-20 century schools – evolution from tool of calculation to the tool of teaching and learning, ' by Viktor Freiman.- Part 4. Theoretical approaches and concluding remarks.- Chapter 14. 'The unsettling pleasure of computing, ' by Jean-François Maheux.- Chapter 15. 'Transition to electronic devices: technological affordances and didactical perspective, ' by Nathalie Sinclair.- Chapter 16. 'Concluding remarks, ' by Viktor Freiman and Alexei Volkov.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 004.09; Computers -- History; Computer science -- History; COMPUTERS / Computer Literacy; COMPUTERS / Computer Science; COMPUTERS / Data Processing; COMPUTERS / Hardware / General; COMPUTERS / Information Technology; COMPUTERS / Machine Theory; COMPUTERS / Reference; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319733968; 3319733966
• Related ISBNs: 9783319733944
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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