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Instructors: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Burkhard Kümmerer; Dipl.-Math. Oliver Schmitt
Event type:
Lecture
Org-unit: Dept. 04 - Mathematics
Displayed in timetable as:
Math. im Kontext
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Course Contents:
Selected chapters from mathematics in their historical context. In particular
- Outline of the history of mathematics;
- Numbers from antiquity to modern times;
- Irrational numbers, Fibonacci numbers, continued fractions;
- Infinity from Zenon to Cantor;
- Infinitely small quantities, measure theory, and non-standard analysis;
- School mathematics versus university mathematics.
Literature:
Preconditions:
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