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An argument that the teaching of elementary integration should better reflect its historical development
Wanting to know the breadth of a river, I measured a base of 500 yards in a straight line close by one side of it.
This is the title page to Rene Descartes' Treatise on Method, with its three famous essays on Dioptrics, Meteorology, and Geometry. The third essay contains Descartes' treatment of analytic geometry as well as his theory of equations and his rule for finding the normal to a given curve.
In baking a hemispherical loaf of bread of 10" radius, the crust was everywhere of an equal thickness, and the solidity of the crust was equal to half the solid content of the whole loaf. What were the dimensions of the interior soft part?
Essays on how number has been critical to the work of scientists through the ages.
Two persons sat down to play for a certain sum of money; and agree that the first who gets three games shall be the winner. After a few games they resolve to divide the stakes. How much should each person receive?
The classic work by Dirk Struik is still worth reading, especially for its attention to the social context of the development of mathematical ideas.
Given two circles tangent to each other and to a common line, determine a relationship between the radii and the distance between the tangent points.
A four-sided town measures 1100 feet on one side and 1000 feet on the other side, on one edge 600 and the other edge 600.

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