• Morris Kline (May 1, 1908 – June 10, 1992) was a professor of mathematics, a writer on the history, philosophy, and teaching of mathematics, and also a...
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  • Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math is a 1973 book by Morris Kline, in which the author severely criticized the teaching practices characteristic...
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  • Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty is a book by Morris Kline on the developing perspectives within mathematical cultures throughout the centuries. This...
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  • Technology. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-618-22123-3. Morris Kline (1985) Mathematics for the nonmathematician Archived 5 September 2015...
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  • theologian Morris Kline (1908–1992), American professor of mathematics and writer Otis Adelbert Kline (1891–1946), American adventure novelist Paul Kline (1937–1999)...
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    "Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics". Also in 1946, NYU Professor Morris Kline focused on mathematical problems of electromagnetic wave propagation...
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    positions of power, the status quo or a popular position. For example, Morris Kline wrote, "There is a function for the gadfly who poses questions that many...
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  • Mathematics". The American Educator. 26 (2): 10–26. S2CID 118964353. Morris Kline (1990). Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times: Volume 3....
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    music was number in time, and astronomy was number in space and time. Morris Kline classified the four elements of the quadrivium as pure (arithmetic),...
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    History of Greek Mathematics, Volume 1, From Thales to Euclid, p. 168. Morris Kline (1990), Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, page 32. Oxford...
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    In his book Why Johnny Can't Add: The Failure of the New Math (1973), Morris Kline says that certain advocates of the new topics "ignored completely the...
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    Paul Halmos, Naive Set Theory, Springer, 1974, ISBN 0-387-90092-6. Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University...
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  • History, 4th ed., New York: W. H. Freeman, 2007. ISBN 0-7167-9948-0 Morris Kline (1972) Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Chapter 36...
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    2016, archived from the original on 20 June 2016, retrieved 28 May 2016 Morris Kline (1985) Mathematics for the nonmathematician. Courier Dover Publications...
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    GSK plc (redirect from GlaxoSmith Kline)
    GSK plc (an acronym from its former name GlaxoSmithKline plc) is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with global headquarters...
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  • (1908). Mechanics of Engineering. Wiley. p. 111. ISBN 1-110-36527-6. Morris Kline (1990). Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times. Oxford University...
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    " p. 74. Oxford University Press, 2001. Caspar, Kepler, pp. 142–146 Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, p. 299. Oxford University...
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  • and field athlete and rugby union footballer Morris Kleiner (born 1948), American economist Morris Kline (1908–1992), American professor of mathematics...
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  • Knowledge is a 1985 book by Morris Kline about the role of mathematics in understanding physical reality. It is preceded by Kline's work, Mathematics: The...
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  • Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist and author (d. 1968) 1908 – Morris Kline, American mathematician and academic (d. 1992) 1909 – Endel Puusepp,...
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    unclear whether Leonhard Euler summed the series to −+1/12. According to Morris Kline, Euler's early work on divergent series relied on function expansions...
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  • Publishing Company, Inc. p. 75. ISBN 0-935610-13-8. Ball 1908, p. 54. Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times Oxford University...
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  • of a Heaviside, and the fervent, almost religious railing of a Tait." Morris Kline begins his 1969 review with "Since historical publications on modern...
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    membership required) Debra Nails, The People of Plato, ISBN 1603844031, p. 44 Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times Oxford University...
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    the best poet among mathematicians. — Carl Friedrich Gauss, quoted in Morris Kline, Mathematics and the Physical World (1959) Ch. 26: Non-Euclidean Geometries...
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    Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine (1909) Richard Dawkins. The God Delusion Morris Kline (1982). Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty. Oxford University Press....
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    education, such as Felix Klein, Richard Courant, Vladimir Arnold and Morris Kline, to strongly advocate teaching mathematics in a way more closely related...
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  • OCLC 841505651. Kline, Morris (2012) [1959]. Mathematics and the Physical World. Dover. ISBN 9780486136318. OCLC 868272162. Kline, Morris (1990) [1972]...
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    Archived 25 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine St. Andrew University Morris Kline (1986). Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge. Oxford University Press...
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  • Voyage of the Spaceship Beagle Lifeboat ethics and bioethics Finalist Morris Kline Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times Finalist Peter Matthiessen...
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