Saturday, October 11, 2014

End of Week 5: What's the History of Teaching Proofs

I don't think I'm supposed to write down the complete solutions to a problem which leaves me with the question about what to write about. Nothing meaningful usually comes out of my head especially concerning math related topics so I usually look for inspiration while I procrastinate while watching educational videos on Youtube.


Professor Heap has mentioned on numerous occasions on how Euclid established the tradition of proofs.After watching this video, I wonder that if the foundations of proofs that we have started learning in class had been established over 2300 years ago, then are we learning the exact way that every single mathematician has learned proofs? Are we learning the same stuff that Newton did in the 17th century or a royal mathematician lost to history in the Mali empire did?

Cool.

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