Overview
An invitation to realize public awareness projects
Information on international public awareness activities
What makes a mathematical museum interesting?
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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National Experiences
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Exhibitions and Mathematical Museums
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Popularisation Activities
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About this book
This collective book aims to encourage and inspire actions directed towards raising public awareness of the importance of mathematical sciences for our contemporary society in a cultural and historical perspective. Mathematical societies, in Europe and around the world, can find ideas, blueprints and suggestions for activities – including concerted actions with other international organizations – directed towards raising public awareness of science, technology and other fields where mathematics plays a strong role. The material is divided into four parts:
• National experiences
• Exhibitions / mathematical museums
• Popularization activities
• Popularization: why and how?
Reviews
“It is intended to be a book with everyday illustrations of applications of mathematics intended to accompany introductory mathematics courses for a beginning university student. … The content invites to really work on the topics that were presented. So for students and their instructors, this gives a wealth of ideas for practical sessions that are intended to work with the theory from the mathematics courses in a practical environment.” (Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society, euro-math-soc.eu, March, 2016)
“This book contains the proceedings of an international conference held in Óbidos (PT) in 2010 … . you may learn many things from this book: a white paper for setting up an exhibition, topics and the material needed for organizing a workshop, links to interactive websites you want to add to your own creation, they are all there. Or maybe you are just generally interested and then there is much fun exposed left for you to grasp.” (A. Bultheel, The European Mathematical Society, August, 2012)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics
Editors: Ehrhard Behrends, Nuno Crato, José Francisco Rodrigues
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25710-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-25709-4Published: 04 July 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-25710-0Published: 04 July 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 404
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 254 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mathematics, general