Subject: Computers--History

Computations and computing devices in mathematics education before the advent of electronic calculators
AuthorVolkov, AlexeïFreiman, Viktor
PlaceCham, Switzerland
PublisherSpringer
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeDigital Book (PDF)
SeriesMathematics education in the digital era ; v. 11
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberQA76.17.C66 2018d
Descriptionpdf. [viii, 471 p. :ill., (some color) ; 24 cm]
NoteComputations and computing devices in mathematics education before the advent of electronic calculators / editors, Alexei Volkov and Viktor Freiman.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction.
History of computations, computing devices, and mathematics education from the teaching and learning perspective : looking for new paths of investigation / Viktor Freiman and Alexei Volkov

Part II. Middle East, India, Greece, and Byzantine Empire in Antiquity and Middle Ages.
Computation in early Mesopotamia / Duncan J. Melville ; Computational techniques and computational aids in ancient Mesopotamia / Jens Høyrup ; Interpreting tables of the Arithmetical Introduction of Nicomachus through Pachymeres' treatment of arithmetic : preliminary observations / Athanasia Megremi and Jean Christianidis ; The so-called "dust computations" in the Līlāvatī / Takanori Kusuba ; Reading algorithms in Sanskrit : how to relate rule of three, choice of unknown, and linear equation? / Charlotte-V. Pollet

Part III. Far East : China, Korea, Japan. Chinese counting rods : their history, arithmetic operations, and didactic repercussions / Alexei Volkov ; Interpreting algorithms written in Chinese and attempting the reconstitution of tabular setting : some elements of comparative history / Charlotte-V. Pollet ; Same rods, same calculation? Contextualizing computations in early eighteenth-century Korea / Young Sook Oh ; The education of abacus addition in China and Japan prior to the early 20th century / Yifu Chen ; Teaching computation in 19th-century Japan : the transition from individual coaching on traditional devices at the end of the Edo period (1600-1868) to lectures on Western mathematics during the Meiji period (1868-1912) / Marion Cousin

Part IV. Early Modern Europe and Russia. A short history of computing devices from Schickard to de Colmar : emergence and evolution of ingenious ideas and technologies as precursors of modern computer technology / Viktor Freiman and Xavier Robichaud ; Computation devices in nineteenth-century mathematics instruction in Europe / Gert Schubring ; Toward a history of the teaching of calculation in Russia / Alexander Karp

Part V. Conclusion. The unsettling playfulness of computing / Jean-François Maheux ; Calculating aids in mathematics education before the advent of electronic calculators : didactical and technological prospects / Dragana Martinovic.

Index of Technical Terms – Index of Individuals – Index of Primary Materials

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