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The Bible of the history of mathematics is Morris Kline's Mathematical Thought From Ancient To Modern TimesMathematical Thought From Ancient To Modern Times,but but this is really for mathematics students.I I think it'd be hard to teach a course from it to non-mathematics majors.

To be honest,I I think it'd be really hard to teach such a course to non-mathematics majors PERIOD:How How would you explain why Wierstrauss' nondifferentiableWeierstrass's non-differentiable function is important to sudentsstudents who don't know calculus?Even Even worse-why, why would such students CARE?

If I was really gung ho to teach such a course-I'd I'd take Kline,Stillwell Stillwell,Bell's Bell's Men Of MathematicsMen Of Mathematics and 3 or 4 other texts and use them to write a set of lecture notes for my students.That's That's how I'D do it.

The Bible of the history of mathematics is Morris Kline's Mathematical Thought From Ancient To Modern Times,but this is really for mathematics students.I think it'd be hard to teach a course from it to non-mathematics majors.

To be honest,I think it'd be really hard to teach such a course to non-mathematics majors PERIOD:How would you explain why Wierstrauss' nondifferentiable function is important to sudents who don't know calculus?Even worse-why would such students CARE?

If I was really gung ho to teach such a course-I'd take Kline,Stillwell,Bell's Men Of Mathematics and 3 or 4 other texts and use them to write a set of lecture notes for my students.That's how I'D do it.

The Bible of the history of mathematics is Morris Kline's Mathematical Thought From Ancient To Modern Times, but this is really for mathematics students. I think it'd be hard to teach a course from it to non-mathematics majors.

To be honest, I think it'd be really hard to teach such a course to non-mathematics majors PERIOD: How would you explain why Weierstrass's non-differentiable function is important to students who don't know calculus? Even worse, why would such students CARE?

If I was really gung ho to teach such a course I'd take Kline, Stillwell, Bell's Men Of Mathematics and 3 or 4 other texts and use them to write a set of lecture notes for my students. That's how I'D do it.

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The Bible of the history of mathematics is Morris Kline's Mathematical Thought From Ancient To Modern Times,but this is really for mathematics students.I think it'd be hard to teach a course from it to non-mathematics majors.

To be honest,I think it'd be really hard to teach such a course to non-mathematics majors PERIOD:How would you explain why Wierstrauss' nondifferentiable function is important to sudents who don't know calculus?Even worse-why would such students CARE?

If I was really gung ho to teach such a course-I'd take Kline,Stillwell,Bell's Men Of Mathematics and 3 or 4 other texts and use them to write a set of lecture notes for my students.That's how I'D do it.