He traces the slow emergence of modern, analytical trigonometry, recounting its colorful origins in Renaissance Europe's quest for more accurate artillery, ... E Maor - 《Princeton University》 被引量: 8发表: 2013年 The Infinite Sphere: Comments on the History of a Metaphor an intelligible sph...
In 1742, Benjamin Robins published New principles of gunnery, and revolutionized the study of ballistics by suggesting the projectile's initial velocity—not its range—was the appropriate parameter to consider in accounting for air resistance. In 1745, Leonard Euler produced a German translation of ...
Numerous manuscript handbooks of arithmetic and geometry containing rather extensive information necessary for practical activities (trade, taxation, construction, the use of artillery) appeared in the late 16th century and particularly in the 17th century. A system of number symbols resembling the Greco...
aResearch on topics that fall in between the purely cognitive and strictly affective areas is especially important to the field of mathematics education. These topics provide a natural link between research on affect and cognition, a link that we explore further in the next section. 研究在純粹認知...
“Victory in Europe Celebration” planners would be to pick up a soldier’s boot on a battlefield and find the foot still in it, or sweat out just one artillery barrage. If they could just realize what is going on they would spend all their spare time praying for the safety of their ...
we want to give some similar examples in the mathematical world, for instance, the geometry theory and complex function theory pioneered by Riemann are certainly highly important, but these theories are also just a small part of the whole mathematical field, and it naturally cannot solve all the...
Mathematics has been a weapon of war as long as it has been an identifiable field of intellectual pursuit. Ancient armies used mathematics to number troops, to array their armies on the field and to construct fortifications. Galileo Galilei did mathematical analyses for the arsenal at Venice and...