On the Teaching of Linear Algebra

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dorier, Jean-Luc (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2000.
• Series: Mathematics Education Library ; 23
• Subjects: Education.; Epistemology.; Matrix theory.; Algebra.; Functions of complex variables.; Mathematics.; History.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Mathematics Education.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Linear and Multilinear Algebras, Matrix Theory.; Several Complex Variables and Analytic Spaces.

To a large extent, it lies, no doubt, in what is presented in this work under the title of ‘meta lever‘, a method which it is certainly interesting to develop and further refine. There exists in mathematics courses a strange prudery which forbids one to ask questions such as, ‹‹ Why are we doing thi...