Sobre la importancia de la enseñanza de la geometría

El matemático Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907-2003) falleció un 31 de marzo

En el aniversario del fallecimiento de Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, os dejo unas palabras sobre la importancia de la enseñanza de la geometría:

Geometry still possesses all those virtues that the educators ascribed to it a generation ago. There is still geometry in nature, waiting to be recognized and appreciated. Geometry (especially projective geometry) is still an excellent means of introducing the student to axiomatics. It still possesses the esthetic appeal it always had, and the beauty of its results has not diminished. Moreover, it is even more useful and necessary to the scientist and practical mathematician than it has ever been. Consider, for instance, the shapes of the orbits of artificial satellites, and the fourdimensional geometry of the space-time continuum.

Geometry, Revisited de H.S.M. Coxeter y S.L. Greitzer (1967)

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