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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Educational Pamphlets 34
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Pages : 298
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The Dial
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Flatland
Author: Edwin Abbott
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 177048129X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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Flatland (1884) is an influential mathematical fantasy that simultaneously provides an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry and a satire on the Victorian class structure, issues of science and faith, and the role of women. A classic of early science fiction, the novel takes place in a world of two dimensions where all the characters are geometric shapes. The narrator, A Square, is a naïve, respectable citizen who is faced with proof of the existence of three dimensions when he is visited by a sphere and is forced to see the limitations of his world. The introduction to this Broadview Edition provides context for the book’s references to Victorian culture and religion, mathematical history, and the history of philosophy. The appendices contain contemporary reviews; extracts from the work of fellow mathematical fantasy writer/mathematician Charles Hinton; Hermann von Helmboltz’s “The Axioms of Geometry” (1870); and autobiographical passages from Abbott’s The Kernel and the Husk (1886).
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 177048129X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Flatland (1884) is an influential mathematical fantasy that simultaneously provides an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry and a satire on the Victorian class structure, issues of science and faith, and the role of women. A classic of early science fiction, the novel takes place in a world of two dimensions where all the characters are geometric shapes. The narrator, A Square, is a naïve, respectable citizen who is faced with proof of the existence of three dimensions when he is visited by a sphere and is forced to see the limitations of his world. The introduction to this Broadview Edition provides context for the book’s references to Victorian culture and religion, mathematical history, and the history of philosophy. The appendices contain contemporary reviews; extracts from the work of fellow mathematical fantasy writer/mathematician Charles Hinton; Hermann von Helmboltz’s “The Axioms of Geometry” (1870); and autobiographical passages from Abbott’s The Kernel and the Husk (1886).
Errors in School Books
Author: Albert Augustus Pope
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Category : Education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category : Education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Oxford Classics
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472537815
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in Britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, cultural. Its rival, Cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while Oxford's leading study was Classics. In this pioneering book, 16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of Oxford Classics in the last two hundred years: curriculum, teaching and learning, scholarly style, publishing, gender and social exclusion and the impact of German scholarship. Greats (Literae Humaniores) is the most celebrated classical course in the world: here its early days in the mid-19th century and its reform in the late 20th are discussed, in the latter case by those intimately involved with the reforms. An opening chapter sets the scene by comparing Oxford with Cambridge Classics, and several old favourites are revisited, including such familiar Oxford products as Liddell and Scott's "Greek-English Lexicon", the "Oxford Classical Texts", and Zimmern's "Greek Commonwealth". The book as a whole offers a pioneering, wide-ranging survey of Classics in Oxford.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472537815
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in Britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, cultural. Its rival, Cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while Oxford's leading study was Classics. In this pioneering book, 16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of Oxford Classics in the last two hundred years: curriculum, teaching and learning, scholarly style, publishing, gender and social exclusion and the impact of German scholarship. Greats (Literae Humaniores) is the most celebrated classical course in the world: here its early days in the mid-19th century and its reform in the late 20th are discussed, in the latter case by those intimately involved with the reforms. An opening chapter sets the scene by comparing Oxford with Cambridge Classics, and several old favourites are revisited, including such familiar Oxford products as Liddell and Scott's "Greek-English Lexicon", the "Oxford Classical Texts", and Zimmern's "Greek Commonwealth". The book as a whole offers a pioneering, wide-ranging survey of Classics in Oxford.
Making a Grade
Author: James Elwick
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148750893X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Making a Grade takes historiographic and sociological perspectives developed to understand large-scale scientific and technical systems and uses them to highlight the standardization that went into "standardized testing."
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 148750893X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Making a Grade takes historiographic and sociological perspectives developed to understand large-scale scientific and technical systems and uses them to highlight the standardization that went into "standardized testing."
The Social Sciences
Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Catalogue of Books in the Pedagogical Section of the University Library
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Library
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets on Education in the Central Library (reference and Lending) and in the Stephenson and Victoria Branches
Author: Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Public libraries
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Catalogue of the Education Library in the South Kensington Museum
Author: South Kensington Museum
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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