Meta Level in the Teaching of Unifying and Generalizing Concepts in Mathematics

Certain concepts in mathematics were not invented only to solve new problems; their aim was mainly to find general methods to solve different problems with the same tools. Such concepts, as those of the axiomatic theory of vector spaces or groups or the modern definition of limit, will be called in...

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