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The Science of Mechanics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

A. W. Bell
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Perhaps the most notable achievement of the Mathematical Association since its formation has been the abolition of Euclid. While Euclid remains the greatest mathematical classic, it is no longer used as an instrument of torture on the young. As a school text-book Euclid is dead, replaced by a course in the well-established three stages, in which the type of learning and the degree of logical rigour are adapted to the understanding of the pupil.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 43 , Issue 345 , October 1959 , pp. 174 - 175
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1959

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