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History of mathematics - OB1310203

Title:	Historie matematiky
Guaranteed by:	Katedra matematiky a didaktiky matematiky (41-KMDM)
Faculty:	Faculty of Education
Actual:	from 2019
Semester:	winter
E-Credits:	3
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:1/1, MC [HT]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (50)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	not taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Guarantor:	prof. RNDr. Milan Hejný, CSc. prof. RNDr. Ladislav Kvasz, DSc., Dr.

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Annotation -

Last update: JANCARIK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (12.03.2010)

Ancient Mathematics, in particular Greek. Medieval Maths (European, Arabic). Mathematics of 16th-19th century

Aim of the course -

Last update: JANCARIK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (12.03.2010)

The aim of the course is to offer the students of mathematics education basic information about the development of mathematics. It will discuss the contributions of the most outstanding mathematicians of the past and will describe the main periods in the history of mathematics.

Literature -

Last update: JANCARIK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (12.03.2010)

D.J. Struik, Dějiny matematiky , Praha 1963

A.Kolman, Dějiny matematiky ve starověku, Praha 1968

A.P. Juškevič, Dějiny matematiky ve středověku, Praha 1978

J. Šedivý a kol. , Světonázorové problémy matematiky I -III (1983 -1985)

E.Fuchs a kol., Světonázorové problémy matematiky IV

Diedonné: Geschichte der Mathematik 1700-1900 (1985)

Kline M. Mathematical thought from ancient to modern time (1972)

Teaching methods -

Last update: JANCARIK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (12.03.2010)

Lecture

Syllabus -

Last update: KVASZ/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (17.03.2010)

Introduction to the study of history of mathematics. The available literature.

Prehistory. Phylogeny and ontogeny. Expression of quantity in aboriginal languages.

First mathematical manuscripts. Egypt, Mesopotamia.

Mathematics in ancient Greece. The main centres and main figures. The main contributions of Eudoxus, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Diophantos.

Mathematics of oriental countries (China, India, Islamic countries). The main contributions of Arabic mathematicians. The transmission of oriental mathematics to Europe.