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Mathematics: Analysis of classical mathematical texts

Class at Faculty of Education |
OD0310013

Annotation

The goal of the course is to illustrate problems connected to the interpretation of classic mathematical texts on the example of texts from the history of mathematics (by Euklides, al-Chwarizmí, Descartes, Leibniz, Bolzano). An emphasis is put on determining the difference in the precision criteria and in the standards of logical argumentation.