I have been thinking about my topics for my adv. comp research paper, and i think i want to research the history of mathematics. I found an awesome library webpage for a section in cech library with awesome historical math textbooks. I am not sure of specific ideas that i want to research within this topic yet, but i would definitely want to look at how different the texts are from todays mathematics.
I felt like this would be very interesting to me because i am going to be a math teach, but on the other hand i sort of wanted to do something not involving my content areas, since most of the research i do involves math or english. This is my chance to write about anything, but i am having a hard time think of anything else. Some thoughts i have that are not very thought out yet are maybe the history of fashion, how it has progressed but then seem to repeat itself. Or something with fashion, the way manufacturing has changed, marketing procedures, social class who wore certain fashions.
These are just some ideas, very different ones, but both i find interesting.
Hi Becky,
ReplyDeleteI think this is a really interesting research project. I suggest you check out the following books:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Envisioning-Information/Edward-R-Tufte/e/9780961392116
Tufte has some fascinating examples of geometry textbooks with absolutely no arabic numbers or writing. He also discusses a 15th century "pop-up" geometry book (mentioned in a review here):
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/david/www/tufte.html
I'm excited about your research!