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The Brachistochrone Problem: Mathematics for a Broad Audience via a Large Context Problem

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Babb, Jeff
Currie, James

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http://hdl.handle.net/10680/1728

Date

2008

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Babb, Jeff, and James Currie. "The Brachistochrone Problem: Mathematics for a Broad Audience via a Large Context Problem." The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast, 5 (2-3) (July 2008): 169-184.

Abstract

Large context problems (LCP) are useful in teaching the history of science. In this article we consider the brachistochrone problem in a context stretching from Euclid through the Bernoullis. We highlight a variety of results understandable by students without a background in analytic geometry. By a judicious choice of methods and themes, large parts of the history of calculus can be made accessible to students in Humanities or Education.

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