SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMNT OF MATHEMATICAL BENT OF MIND
SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMNT OF MATHEMATICAL BENT OF MIND
Friends, ‘Mathematics is a queen of sciences’
-It is a science amongst sciences, and art among arts. Ancient mathematicians studied Mathematics as a handmaid to astronomy and commerce. They developed Geometry to measure lands, construct buildings etc.
Ancient Greeks saw it as a science which needed logic for its development. They drew inspiration from the Analytic and Synthetic or Inductive and Deductive methods of reasoning. They derived pleasure in solving mathematical problems, and considered it as one of the necessary subjects to be studied in their curriculum. Admission into their academics was denied to those who had no knowledge of mathematics- and education was imperfect without the study of maths. Had there been no such study of mathematics, the progress of humanity would have been static and still we would have found man leading barbarian lives.
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Every night, a pageant of Greek mythology circles overhead. Perseus flies to the rescue of Andromeda, Orion faces the charge of the snorting Bull, and the ship of the Argonauts sails in search of the Golden Fleece. Constellations are the invention of the human imagination, not of nature. They are an expression of the human desire to impress its own order upon the apparent chaos of the night sky. Modern science tells us that these twinkling points of light are glowing balls of gas, but the ancient Greeks, to whom we owe many of our constellations, knew nothing of this. Ian Ridpath, well-known astronomy writer and broadcaster, has been intrigued by the myths of the stars for many years. Star Tales is the first modern guide to combine all the fascinating myths in one book, illustrated with the beautiful and evocative engravings from two of the leading star atlases: Johann Bode’s Uranographia of 1801 and John Flamsteed’s Atlas Ceolestis of 1729. This is an excellent reference and the perfect gift for the armchair astronomer and those interested in classical mythology alike.
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