Descriptive Geometry, The Spread of a Polytechnic Art (eBook)

The Legacy of Gaspard Monge

Évelyne Barbin, Marta Menghini, Klaus Volkert (Herausgeber)

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2019 | 1. Auflage
437 Seiten
Springer-Verlag
978-3-030-14808-9 (ISBN)

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This book seeks to explore the history of descriptive geometry in relation to its circulation in the 19th century, which had been favoured by the transfers of the model of the École Polytechnique to other countries. The book also covers the diffusion of its teaching from higher instruction to technical and secondary teaching. In relation to that, there is analysis of the role of the institution – similar but definitely not identical in the different countries – in the field under consideration. The book contains chapters focused on different countries, areas, and institutions, written by specialists of the history of the field. Insights on descriptive geometry are provided in the context of the mathematical aspect, the aspect of teaching in particular to non-mathematicians, and the institutions themselves. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2019
• Reihe/Serie: International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching
• Reihe/Serie: International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching
• Zusatzinfo: XXVI, 437 p. 87 illus., 24 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Descriptive and Projective Geometry in Technical Instruction • Descriptive Geometry at Czech Technical Universities • Descriptive Geometry in 19th Century Spain • Descriptive Geometry in America and Africa • Descriptive Geometry in Austria • Descriptive Geometry in France • Descriptive Geometry in Italy • Descriptive Geometry in the Educational Institutions in Greece • Descriptive Geometry in the Netherlands • Engineering Studies and Secondary Education • History of Mathematical Teaching • History of Mathematics • Internationalization of Mathematics in 19th century • Late modern European outlook on science and technology • Otto Wilhelm Fiedler • Polytechnic schools • The Myth of the Polytechnic School • The Rise and Fall of Descriptive Geometry in Denmark
• ISBN-10: 3-030-14808-4 / 3030148084
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-14808-9 / 9783030148089