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On Conceptual Metaphors In Mathematics

Jerzy Pogonowski (2017)

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia ad Didacticam Mathematicae Pertinentia

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This paper contains a few critical remarks concerning some fundamental assumptions and claims propagated by Lakoff and Núñez in their monograph Lakoff, Núñez (2000). Our attitude is skeptical (cf. also Pogonowski,2011). We agree with the idea that conceptual metaphors may play some role in the formation of elementary mathematical notions. However, we disagree with the authors’ claim that such metaphors provide the main mechanism in the emergence of new notions in advanced mathematics. ...

Priority, parallel discovery, and pre-eminence Napier, Bürgi and the early history of the logarithm relation

Kathleen M. Clark, Clemency Montelle (2012)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

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There has never been any doubt as to the importance of the logarithm, a mathematical relation whose usefulness has persisted in different aspects to the present day. Within years of their introduction, logarithms became indispensable for mathematicians, astronomers, navigators, and geographers alike. The question of their origins, however, is more contentious. At least two scholars, the Scottish nobleman John Napier and the Swiss craftsman Jost Bürgi, simultaneously and independently...

Fonts with Complex OpenType Tables

Karel Píška (2011)

Zpravodaj Československého sdružení uživatelů TeXu

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The paper presents development of complex OpenType fonts. The sample fonts cover Czech and Georgian handwriting with numerous letter connections. At the beginning, general principles of "advanced typography" are shown - complex metric data represented by OpenType tables (GSUB and GPOS) - and compared them with the ligature and kerning tables in METAFONT. Then the history of the OpenType font production is described - approaches, tools and techniques. Crucial problems, critical...