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History of mathematics III - OKN1310N04

Title:	Historie matematiky III
Guaranteed by:	Katedra matematiky a didaktiky matematiky (41-KMDM)
Faculty:	Faculty of Education
Actual:	from 2014 to 2014
Semester:	winter
E-Credits:	3
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:0/0, C [HS]
Extent per academic year:	10 [hours]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (50)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	combined
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Guarantor:	prof. RNDr. Milan Hejný, CSc. prof. RNDr. Ladislav Kvasz, DSc., Dr.
Teacher(s):	prof. RNDr. Ladislav Kvasz, DSc., Dr.
Pre-requisite :	OKN2310003

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Annotation -

History of the calculus from its beginnings till the 19th century.

Last update: JANCARIK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (15.08.2012)

Aim of the course -

The aim of the course is to offer the students of mathematics education basic information about the development of the calculus. It will discuss the contributions of the most outstanding mathematicians of the past and will describe the main periods in the history of calculus.

Last update: JANCARIK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (15.08.2012)

Literature -

D.J. Struik, Dějiny matematiky , Praha 1963

J. Šedivý a kol. , Světonázorové problémy matematiky I -III (1983 -1985)

E.Fuchs a kol., Světonázorové problémy matematiky IV

Diedonné: Geschichte der Mathematik 1700-1900 (1985)

Kline M. Mathematical thought from ancient to modern time (1972)

Last update: JANCARIK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (15.08.2012)

Teaching methods -

Lecture

Last update: JANCARIK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (15.08.2012)

Requirements to the exam - Czech

Požadavkem k absolvování předmětu je alespoň 2/3-ová účast na hodinách a vypracování semestrální práce na zadané téma.

Last update: JANCARIK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (15.08.2012)

Syllabus -

The early development of the calculus.

The contributions of Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Cauchy.

The birth of the theory of real numbers - Dedekind and Cantor.

From calculus to set theory - Bolzano and Cantor.

Last update: JANCARIK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (15.08.2012)