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Showing 1 to 20 of 146 for “"mathematicians"”.
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Professional Mathematicians' Level of Understanding: An Investigation of Pseudo-Objectification
This research study investigated how professional mathematicians understand and operate with highly-abstract, advanced mathematical concepts in their own work. In particular, this study examined how professional mathematicians operated with mathematical concepts at different levels of …
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AN INVESTIGATION OF LOWER SECONDARY PUPILS' IMAGES OF MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICIANS
… project in which the images of mathematics and mathematicians held by lower secondary pupils were investigated. A survey tool which asked pupils to draw a picture of a mathematician at work, and which included a Likert-type scale and open-ended writing prompts, was designed and developed for use …
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Motivating Mathematicians: A Theoretical Framework of Professional Development to Support Efficacious Behaviors for Teachers of Elementary Mathematics
The K-12 mathematics experiences of today’s elementary teachers often were one dimensional, or traditional, in nature. Many elementary teachers recall negative, isolating mathematics experiences from their earliest memories of math, and these experiences have shaped their sense of efficacious …
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An investigation of pre-service teachers' and professional mathematicians' perceptions of mathematical proof at the secondary school level
… forms that would be acceptable to professional mathematicians" (NCTM, 2000, p. 58). Research studies indicate, however, that students and teachers have difficulty with many aspects of mathematical proof, including its nature and meaning. In addition, there appears to be a disconnect between …
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How is work-integrated learning adapting to the future of work and employability? A phenomenograhic study of graduate mathematicians internship experiences across selected African countries
… learning through a sample of African graduate mathematicians' collective internship experiences. The research methodology was based in phenomenography, which seeks to understand the collective outcomes experienced by the participants from their workspace internships. Twenty participants were …
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"If it quacks like a sphere" : the million dollar problem
… in the world of mathematics, where individual mathematicians are usually expected to support their own results. In the wake of his disappearance, other mathematicians are coming together to pore over his work and try to flesh out the details. His apparent desertion raises questions both about …
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Intuicionistinis kontinuumas /
… the continuum phenomenon has been of interest to mathematicians and philosophers around the world from the ancient Greek period to the present day. The continuum is usually understood as infinity, and the characteristics of this infinity have been thought about and discussed from many different …
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Weaving Culture and Mathematics: An Evaluation of Mutual Interrogation as a Methodological Process in Ethnomathematical Research
… of a specific cultural knowledge domain and mathematicians in order to investigate the interactions that occur between their knowledge systems, and to look at how the diverse ways of thinking about quantities, relationships and space can help broaden or transform our conception of …
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Graph theory in America 1876-1950
… in the United States of America by American mathematicians and others who supported the growth of scholarship in that country, between the years 1876 and 1950. The beginning of this period coincided with the opening of the first research university in the United States of America, The Johns …
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The subjects of modernism : mathematics, art, and the politics of value in twentieth-century United States
… the turn of the twentieth century, however, when mathematicians reconceived mathematics around notions of abstraction, formalism, and "made" theories bearing no necessary relationship to the empirical world, understandings of the relationship of mathematics to the arts changed. Historians of …
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Class Field Theory and the Theory of n-Fermat Primes
… simple to state, yet many continue to elude mathematicians even centuries after they were originally posed. Such
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Chinese Hereditary Mathematician Families of the Astronomical Bureau, 1620-1850
… days of the Qing dynasty. Moreover, professional mathematicians at the Astronomical Bureau were willing to learn new knowledge--including switching from the Chinese traditional Great Concordance system of calendar making to the New Western Method introduced by European Jesuit mathematicians--and …
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Magpy: A Python Package for Magmas
… a multitude of computational tools available to mathematicians, such as interactive and automated theorem provers, finite counter-example generators, and computer algebra systems, most of which have a complicated installation process, unintuitive syntax, a lack of comprehensiveness for …
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Beyond the Numbers: Gaining Perspective on the Mathematics Problem Towards The Successful Transition of Students into University Mathematics
… poor level- is experienced and perceived by mathematicians. Additionally, this study looks at what effect these perceptions have on precalculus/bridging courses and how this information can be used to influence programming for incoming students in Western Canadian universities. Using …
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Game Theory and Its Business Applications
… of Game Theory, for they are better left to mathematicians. Nevertheless, techniques developed by the mathematicians could be of valuable use to businessmen in their decision making process. | While there are limited applications of Game Theory to business situations today, perhaps its …
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Paul Ernest's Social Constructivist Philosophy of Mathematics Education
… are similar for these two groups, he views mathematicians as producers of mathematical knowledge and the general public as users of this knowledge. This characterization seems to place research mathematicians in a privileged position. Finally, I explore the implications of Ernest's framework …
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Intertwining relations, commutativity and orbits
… operators have been studied intensely by several mathematicians in the Hardy space, see the recent of \cite{leon4}. Although we know fewer things about these operators in weighted Hardy spaces, we calculated the extended-spectrum of composition operators that are induced by a bilinear …
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How Doctoral Students Construe their Mathematics when Communicating their Research
… skills are essential for academics, including mathematicians, when conducting research and disseminating results. Building on the role of communication in mathematics and in the process of becoming mathematicians, this study investigates how mathematics doctoral students communicate their …
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