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Whither Geometry?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

This Association came into existence nearly one hundred years ago with the prime object of improving the teaching of geometry and although its field of interest has widened considerably the teaching of geometry remains a very important issue. Of course, the question “Whither Geometry?” is rather meaningless unless one specifies whether one is talking about geometry as taught to primary, junior or secondary school levels, to Colleges of Education and the Polytechnics, to undergraduates and postgraduates at University, or geometry as understood by professional research mathematicians. Moreover the motivation for studying geometry may well be quite different at these different levels. I shall try to deal with the question as it affects all these various levels of mathematics.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1970

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page 216 note *

Extracts from an address given at the Annual Conference of the Mathematical Association held at Newcastle—April 1970.