This book comprises five parts. The first three contain ten historical essays on important topics: number theory, calculus/analysis, and proof, respectively. Part four deals with several historically oriented courses, and Part five provides biographies of five mathematicians-Dedekind, Euler, Gauss, Hilbert, and Weierstrass-who played major roles in the historical events described in the first four parts of the work. Excursions in the History of Mathematics was written with several goals in mind: to arouse mathematics teachers' interest in the history of their subject; to encourage mathematics teachers with at least some knowledge of the history of mathematics to offer courses with a strong historical component; and to provide an historical perspective on a number of basic topics taught in mathematics courses.
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Kleiner, I. (2012). A Brief History of the Function Concept. In Excursions in the History of Mathematics (pp. 103–124). Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8268-2_5
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