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Professor Edward A. Friedman in a Nutshell

Editors (2015)

Serdica Journal of Computing

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Edward A. Friedman is Professor Emeritus of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. His undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Physics are from MIT (1957) and Columbia University (1963), respectively. As Dean of Stevens Institute of Technology (1973–1983) he led innovations on applications of computer and networking technologies in undergraduate education, which were studied and emulated by universities worldwide. Dr. Friedman was responsible for the pioneering requirement...

Education of future geography teachers in Slovenia

Tatjana Resnik Planinc (2019)

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Geographica

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This paper presents the development of the didactics of geography at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana from its beginnings in the 19th century up to the present day. Important milestones are discussed and the present situation described. The author first discusses how different approaches were developed over the years, then focuses on the current situation through the presentation of some selected ways of educating, equipping and developing a good...

The Lvov years of Wacław Sierpiński

Andrzej Schinzel (2009)

Banach Center Publications

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An account is given of Sierpiński's activity in Lvov (1908-1918) interrupted by World War I.

The role of a geography textbook in developing key competences – a comparative study

Mariola Tracz, Jolanta Rodzoś (2015)

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Geographica

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A textbook plays an important role in modernization of the teaching process and in the achievement of set teaching objectives. From a didactic perspective, very important is the structure of contents that activates a school student via e.g. a set of didactic tasks. It seems important in the context of developing self-study and long-life learning skills of school students. Self-study becomes a necessity in the modern society due to technological advancement and constantly growing requirements...

A note on Professor Jan Grzegorz Krzyż

Eligiusz Złotkiewicz (2011)

Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, sectio A – Mathematica

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[Editor's note: a webpage dedicated to Professor Jan Grzegorz Krzyż is available at the address http://math.umcs.lublin.pl/Krzyz/]

Betwixt Jesuit and Enlightenment Historiography: Jean-Sylvain Bailly’s History of Indian Astronomy

Dhruv Raina (2003)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

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The crystallization of scientific disciplines in late eighteenth-century Europe was accompanied by the proliferation of specialist histories of science. These histories were framed as much by the imperatives of the astronomy of the times as they were by the compulsions of disciplinary differentiation. This paper attempts to contextualise the engagement with the astronomy of India in the histories of astronomy authored in the eighteenth century by the astronomer Jean-Sylvain Bailly. While...

Mathematics and Morality on the Cusp of Modernity

Peter Dear (2001)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

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This note suggests that a fruitful way of investigating the history of mathematics lies in consideration of its pedagogical purposes. As a general illustration of the directions that such an approach might take, the paper discusses early-modern arguments for the practical utility of mathematics and its capacity to inculcate good habits of thought, as well as the appearance of new uses for mathematical training in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that served the purpose...