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The Teaching of “Applied” Mathematics*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

Attention has been recently drawn to the rapid mathematisation of science during the past half-century and the contributions to educational technique which are being made by teachers of mathematics in technical colleges.

The kind of mathematics with which they deal may be called “Applied” Mathematics, although it is far different from what is ordinarily termed applied mathematics. It may be said to include certain portions of pure mathematics, practical mathematics, theoretical mechanics and, in rare cases, such practical mechanics as is considered necessary to illustrate the theory—whereas, in fact, it should cover all applications of mathematics to the various fields of knowledge.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1939 

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Footnotes

*

A paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association, January 1939.

References

page no 251 note † “Clarity is not enough”, by Professor L. Hogben, Mathematical Gazette, May 1938.