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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/109023| Title: | University mathematics : the cradle of thought for effective policy-making |
| Other Titles: | University of Malta : annual report 2003 |
| Authors: | Sciriha, Irene |
| Keywords: | Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Malta Critical pedagogy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Malta Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Activity programs Mathematics -- Social aspects University of Malta. Annual report |
| Issue Date: | 2003 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta |
| Citation: | Sciriha, I. (2003). University mathematics: the cradle of thought for effective policy-making. University of Malta: Annual report, 33-37. |
| Abstract: | No student should leave University without partaking of the legacy of knowledge that the renowned Greek mathematician and philosopher Plato left us. "Let no man ignorant of geometry enter here;" so read the inscription over the door of Plato's academy. The Greeks raised the Egyptian and Babylonian mathematical tools to the level of abstraction. To them we owe the power and poetry that is the meaning of University Mathematics today. Do we still harbour the utmost respect that the Greeks paid to Mathematics? Do we still have their conviction that only through the spirit of inquiry and strict logic could one understand a person's place in an orderly universe? [Excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/109023 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacSciMat |
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