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Author / Creator:	Toeplitz, Otto, 1881-1940.
Uniform title:	Entwicklung der Infinitesimalrechnung. English
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 192 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Calculus. Processes, Infinite. Calculus. Processes, Infinite.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11347123

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ISBN:	9780226806693 0226806693 9780226806686 0226806685
Notes:	"Published in association with the Mathematical Association of America." Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1963. Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-189) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	When first published posthumously in 1963, this book presented a radically different approach to the teaching of calculus.℗¡℗¡In sharp contrast to the methods of his time, Otto Toeplitz did not teach calculus as a static system of techniques and facts to be memorized. Instead, he drew on his knowledge of the history of mathematics and presented calculus as an organic evolution of ideas beginning with the discoveries of Greek scholars, such as Archimedes, Pythagoras, and Euclid, and developing through the centuries in the work of Kepler, Galileo, Fermat, Newton, and Leibniz. Through this unique a.
Other form:	Print version: Toeplitz, Otto, 1881-1940. Entwicklung der Infinitesimalrechnung. English. Calculus. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226806686 0226806685

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