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Calculus Reordered - A History of the Big Ideas (Hardcover)
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Calculus Reordered - A History of the Big Ideas (Hardcover)
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How our understanding of calculus has evolved over more than three
centuries, how this has shaped the way it is taught in the
classroom, and why calculus pedagogy needs to change Calculus
Reordered takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of
years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into the subject we
know today. David Bressoud explains why calculus is credited to
seventeenth-century figures Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, and
how its current structure is based on developments that arose in
the nineteenth century. Bressoud argues that a pedagogy informed by
the historical development of calculus represents a sounder way for
students to learn this fascinating area of mathematics. Delving
into calculus's birth in the Hellenistic Eastern
Mediterranean-particularly in Syracuse, Sicily and Alexandria,
Egypt-as well as India and the Islamic Middle East, Bressoud
considers how calculus developed in response to essential questions
emerging from engineering and astronomy. He looks at how Newton and
Leibniz built their work on a flurry of activity that occurred
throughout Europe, and how Italian philosophers such as Galileo
Galilei played a particularly important role. In describing
calculus's evolution, Bressoud reveals problems with the standard
ordering of its curriculum: limits, differentiation, integration,
and series. He contends that the historical order-integration as
accumulation, then differentiation as ratios of change, series as
sequences of partial sums, and finally limits as they arise from
the algebra of inequalities-makes more sense in the classroom
environment. Exploring the motivations behind calculus's discovery,
Calculus Reordered highlights how this essential tool of
mathematics came to be.
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