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  2. Morris Kline - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics for Liberal Arts, Addison-Wesley, 1967, (republished as Mathematics for the Nonmathematician, Dover Publications, Inc., 1985) (ISBN 0-486-24823-2) Mathematics in the Modern World (ed), W. H. Freeman and Co., 1968; Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, 1972

  3. Gloria Olive - Wikipedia

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    Olive was one of a small group of approximately 7 women who established the precursor group to the Association for Women in Mathematics. [6] She is the author of the book Mathematics for Liberal Arts Students (Macmillan, 1973). [7] She also published several papers on the "generalized powers" of her dissertation.

  4. Liberal arts education - Wikipedia

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    Liberal arts education (from Latin liberalis 'free' and ars 'art or principled practice') [1] is a traditional academic course in Western higher education. [2] Liberal arts takes the term art in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically the fine arts.

  5. The Crest of the Peacock - Wikipedia

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    The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics is a book authored by George Gheverghese Joseph, and was first published by Princeton University Press in 1991. . The book was brought out as a response to view of the history of mathematics epitomized by Morris Kline's statement that, comparing to what the Greeks achieved, "the mathematics of Egyptians and Babylonians is the ...

  6. Quadrivium - Wikipedia

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    In modern applications of the liberal arts as curriculum in colleges or universities, the quadrivium may be considered to be the study of number and its relationship to space or time: arithmetic was pure number, geometry was number in space, music was number in time, and astronomy was number in space and time.

  7. Finite mathematics - Wikipedia

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    1969: Marvin Marcus, A Survey of Finite Mathematics, Houghton-Mifflin [6] 1970: Guillermo Owen, Mathematics for Social and Management Sciences, Finite Mathematics, W. B. Saunders [6] 1970: Irving Allen Dodes, Finite Mathematics: A Liberal Arts Approach, McGraw-Hill [6] 1971: A.W. Goodman & J. S. Ratti, Finite Mathematics with Applications ...

  8. Mathematics education - Wikipedia

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    In Plato's division of the liberal arts into the trivium and the ... Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2010-07 ...

  9. Mathematics and art - Wikipedia

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    A liberal arts inquiry project examines connections between mathematics and art through the Möbius strip, flexagons, origami and panorama photography. [151] Mathematical objects including the Lorenz manifold and the hyperbolic plane have been crafted using fiber arts including crochet.