What is it about?
The chapter focuses on the work of two students, Gabriella and Marcos, during an activity that was part of a college course on projective geometry. The students addressed how a parabola traced by a 200-meter rope laid down on a football field. gets projected on a plane perpendicular to it. The paper elaborates on the nature of different imaginaries.
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Why is it important?
The chapter illustrates close relationships between the development of mathematical imagination and the use of tools allowing for bodily exploration, haptic touch, and gestural expression
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This paper focuses on video-recorded events from my teaching of projective geometry to university students. This teaching was for me a unique opportunity to innovate, learn mathematics, and engage students and myself in the history of mathematics.
Ricardo Nemirovsky
Manchester Metropolitan University
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This page is a summary of: Bodies, Incorporeals, and the Birth of a Mathematical Diagram, December 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004717701_002.
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