# Mathematical Time Capsules

## Dick Jardine and Amy Shell-Gellasch, Editors

Mathematical Time Capsules offers teachers historical modules for immediate use in the mathematics classroom. Readers will find articles and activities from mathematics history that enhance the learning of topics covered in the undergraduate or secondary mathematics curricula. Each capsule presents at least one topic or a historical thread that can be used throughout a course. The capsules were written by experienced practitioners to provide teachers with historical background and classroom activities designed for immediate use in the classroom, along with further references and resources on the chapter subject.

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Electronic ISBN: 9780883859841

Print ISBN: 9780883851876

 PDF Price POD Price Mathematical Time Capsules $30.00$55.00 Price per Chapter Price per Chapter Chapter 1: The Sources of Algebra, Roger Cooke $7.00$8.50 Chapter 2: How to Measure the Earth, Lawrence D'Antonio $7.00$8.50 Chapter 3: Numerical Solution of Equations, Roger Cooke $7.00$8.50 Chapter 4: Completing the Square through the Millennia, Dick Jardine $7.00$8.50 Chapter 5: Adapting the Medieval "Rule of Double False Position" to the Modern Classroom, Randy K. Schwartz $7.00$8.50 Chapter 6: Complex Numbers, Cubic Equations, and Sixteenth-Century Italy, Daniel J. Curtin $7.00$8.50 Chapter 7: Shearing with Euclid, Davida Fischman and Shawnee McMurran $7.00$8.50 Chapter 8: The Mathematics of Measuring Time, Kim Plofker $7.00$8.50 Chapter 9: Clear Sailing with Trigonometry, Glen Van Brummelen $7.00$8.50 Chapter 10: Copernican Trigonometry, Victor J. Katz $7.00$8.50 Chapter 11: Cusps: Horns and Beaks, Robert E. Bradley $7.00$8.50 Chapter 12: The Latitude of Forms, Area, and Velocity, Daniel J. Curtin $7.00$8.50 Chapter 13: Descartes' Approach to Tangents, Daniel J. Curtin $7.00$8.50 Chapter 14: Integration a la Fermat, Amy Shell-Gellasch $7.00$8.50 Chapter 15: Sharing the Fun: Student Presentations, Amy Shell-Gellasch and Dick Jardine $7.00$8.50 Chapter 16: Digging up History on the Internet: Discovery Worksheets, Betty Mayfield $7.00$8.50 Chapter 17: Newton vs. Leibniz in One Hour!, Betty Mayfield $7.00$8.50 Chapter 18: Connections between Newton, Leibniz, and Calculus I, Andrew B. Perry $7.00$8.50 Chapter 19: A Different Sort of Calculus Debate, Vicky Williams Klima $7.00$8.50 Chapter 20: A 'Symbolic' History of the Derivative, Clemency Montelle $7.00$8.50 Chapter 21: Leibniz's Calculus (Real Retro Calc.), Robert Rogers $7.00$8.50 Chapter 22: An "Impossible" Problem, Courtesy of Leonhard Euler, Homer S. White $7.00$8.50 Chapter 23: Multiple Representations of Functions in the History of Mathematics, Robert Rogers $7.00$8.50 Chapter 24: The Unity of all Science: Karl Pearson, the Mean and the Standard Deviation, Joe Albree $7.00$8.50 Chapter 25: Finding the Greatest Common Divisor, J.J. Tattersall $7.00$8.50 Chapter 26: Two-Way Numbers and an Alternate Technique for Multiplying Two Numbers, J.J. Tattersall $7.00$8.50 Chapter 27: The Origins of Integrating Factors, Dick Jardine $7.00$8.50 Chapter 28: Euler's Method in Euler's Words, Dick Jardine $7.00$8.50 Chapter 29: Newton's Differential Equation dot y over dot x = 1 - 3x + y +xx + xy, Huseyin Kocak $7.00$8.50 Chapter 30: Roots, Rocks, and Newton-Raphson Algorithms for Approximating sqrt2 3000 Years Apart, Clemency Montelle $7.00$8.50 Chapter 31: Plimpton 322: The Pythagorean Theorem, More than a Thousand Years before Pythagoras, Daniel E. Otero $7.00$8.50 Chapter 32: Thomas Harriot's Pythagorean Triples: Could He List Them All?, Janet L. Beery $7.00$8.50 Chapter 33: Amo, Amas, Amat! What's the sum of that?, Clemency Montelle $7.00$8.50 Chapter 34: The Harmonic Series: A Primer, Adrian Rice $7.00$8.50 Chapter 35: Learning to Move with Dedekind, Fernando Q. Gouvea $7.00$8.50