Date and time: May 15th at 4.30 for a 5pm start!
Venue: University of Manchester, Simon Building,
Brunswick Street (off Oxford Road), second floor seminar room (2.57)
Christian Greiffenhagen will present an aspect of his recent research:
Video analysis of scientific practice? An attempt to study a ‘thinking’ science.
This paper will report on my ongoing project of developing a [...]
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History, Philosophy and Culture of Mathematics Seminar
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Didactic Transformation
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The paper Mathematics, mathematicians, and mathematics education by Hyman Bass [Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 no. 4 (2005) 417–430] contains a remarkably compact formulation of what makes mathematics education so special among other disciplines:
Upon his retirement in 1990 as president of the ICMI (International Commission on Mathematical Instruction), Jean-Pierre Kahane spoke perceptively of the intimate [...]
