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Azriel Evyatar was born on June 14, 1926 in Antwerp, Belgium. In 1951, he arrived in Israel.
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Motivated Mathematics
(The ideas of mathematics can be understood through the te...)
The ideas of mathematics can be understood through the techniques needed to solve problems which crop up in everyday life. Conversely, these problems can illustrate how mathematics develops 'naturally'. The essence of this informal book is to motivate mathematics by examining mathematical models of situations and problems that occur in the real world. Each chapter deals with a specific mathematical topic and each topic is introduced at different levels to provide motivation for students of varying mathematical maturity. The authors emphasize that although applications provide motivation, they are not trying to supply aids for teaching applied mathematics. It is mathematical notions and how they can be developed that are important. We thus have an interesting inversion of aims: physics, biology, linguistics, etc., are here applied to the teaching of mathematics. The bank of ideas in this practical manual will be valuable to teachers of mathematics at schools, colleges and, to a certain extent, universities. Student teachers will also find here a great deal of material of use and interest.
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Azriel Evyatar
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Licensed in Mathematical Science, the Free University of Brussels, 1948;
Doctor of Mathematical Sciences, the Free University of Brussels, 1951.
Career
From 1954 Azriel Evyatar worked at the Israel Institute of Technology (the Department of Mathematics), Haifa, Israel;
From 1969 to 1970 he was a chairman of the Department of Mathematics at the Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel;
He was a coordinator of courses for gifted Children, l969-82;
He was a member of visiting staff at Northwestern University, l958-59; University of California, l959-60; University of Massachusetts, l963-64; University of Sussex, l976-77; Columbia University Teachers College, l983-84.
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Evyatar was a member of Israeli Mathematics Union, London Mathematics Society, American Mathematics Society.
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1951