Subjects

Your browser does not support JavaScript, or its support is disabled. Some features may not be available.

History of mathematics - ON2310003

Title:	Historie matematiky
Guaranteed by:	Katedra matematiky a didaktiky matematiky (41-KMDM)
Faculty:	Faculty of Education
Actual:	from 2022
Semester:	winter
E-Credits:	3
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:1/1, C [HT]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (50)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	not taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
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.
Is co-requisite for:	ON1310002, ON1310N004
Is interchangeable with:	O02310034, OKN2310003

Opinion survey results Examination dates Schedule Noticeboard

Annotation -

Development of algebra from its beginnings till the birth of abstract algebra.

Last update: KVASZ/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (17.03.2010)

Aim of the course -

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

Last update: KVASZ/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (10.04.2009)

Literature -

D.J. Struik, Dějiny matematiky , Praha 1963

A.P. Juškevič, Dějiny matematiky ve středověku, Praha 1978

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: KVASZ/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (17.03.2010)

Teaching methods -

Lecture

Last update: KVASZ/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (10.04.2009)

Requirements to the exam - Czech

Student vypracuje esej na téma, které si vybere u vyučujícího.

Last update: Kvasz Ladislav, prof. RNDr., DSc., Dr. (02.10.2018)

Syllabus -

The solution of cubic equations - Tartaglia, Cardano.

Cassus irreducibilis and the invention of complex numbers.

The proof of the insolubility of the quintic equations Galois, Ruffini, Abel.

The use of algebra in geometry - the birth of analytic geometry.

Last update: KVASZ/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (17.03.2010)