Unit HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS I
- Course
- Mathematics
- Study-unit Code
- 55A00102
- Curriculum
- Didattico-generale
- Teacher
- Nicla Palladino
- Teachers
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- Nicla Palladino
- Hours
- 42 ore - Nicla Palladino
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- MAT/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italiano
- Contents
- The Elements of Euclid; Descartes; development of logarithms; Bombelli; natural numbers; real numbers; analytic geometry;
the origins of the infinitesimal calculus. - Reference texts
- Gli Elementi di Euclide-edizione U.T.E.T.
La Geometria di Cartesio-edizione U.T.E.T.
C. B. Boyer Storia delle matematiche, Mondadori. Varie edizioni in italiano.
Morris Kline, Storia del pensiero matematico, Einuadi Editore, 1991. - Educational objectives
- The course aims to facilitate the acquisition of a historical vision of some significant moments in the development of mathematics. The evolution of some of the main concepts, methods and theories is presented. As didactic purpose, we propose to educate to the identification and understanding of epistemological obstacles emerged in the arrangement of some mathematical concepts over the centuries, providing adequate tools to overcome them.
- Prerequisites
- no particular prerequisites
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lesson, workshops, use of original texts
- Other information
- Further materials and references will be provided during the lessons and made available on Unistudium
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam on the whole program of the course. Critical and in-depth treatment of a particular topic
- Extended program
- The Elements of Euclid: books I, II, V; Descartes: La Geometrié; development of logarithms; Bombelli; natural numbers; real numbers; analytic geometry: Cartesio and Fermat;
the origins of the infinitesimal calculus: Newton and Leibnitz.