PdF:MA0024 History of Mathematics - Course Information
MA0024 History of Mathematics
Faculty of EducationSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/2/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Helena Durnová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Helena Durnová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Helena Durnová, Ph.D.
Department of Mathematics – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Mathematics – Faculty of Education - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Mathematics (programme PdF, N-SS)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Mathematics (programme PdF, M-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Mathematics (programme PdF, M-ZS5)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Mathematics (programme PdF, N-MA2) (4)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Mathematics (programme PdF, N-TV)
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Mathematics (programme PdF, N-ZS)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students will have basic knowledge about history of mathematics. They will have gained some ideas of how to use it in mathematics classes.
- Learning outcomes
- Successful graduates will be aware of major periods of the development of mathematics.
- Syllabus
- Topics of the lectures: Origins of mathematis Mathematics in Egypt and Orient. Greec mathematics, first crises Mathematics in Middle Ages. Origin of Calculus, second crisis mathematics in the 19th century. Third crisis. Some well-known mathematicians Reading: Křišťan z Prachatic: Algorismus prosaycus Alcuin: Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes (selection) Problems of Ancient Egyptian mathematics (bread and beer tasks, fractions) Various definitions of a limit Practical mathematics textbooks
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Historie matematiky I : seminář pro vyučující na středních školách : Jevíčko, 19.8.-22.8.1993 : sborník. Edited by Jindřich Bečvář - Eduard Fuchs. 1. vyd. Brno: Jednota českých matematiků a fyziků, 1994, 241 s. info
- ŠEDIVÝ, Jaroslav. Světonázorové problémy matematiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1984, 220 s. info
- ŠEDIVÝ, Jaroslav and Jaroslav FOLTA. Světonázorové problémy matematiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1983, 200 s. info
- Teaching methods
- Lecture, seminar with active participation of the students, homework (reading) and seminar paper on a given topic.
- Assessment methods
- Assessment of classroom activity. Colloquium on the basis of discussion of the seminar paper.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Semináře jsou vyučovány dvojjazyčně (česky a anglicky).
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin (kombinovaná forma).
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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