Book Review: Mathematics Applied to Electrical Engineering

Book Review: 'Health Humanities and Applied Literature'

Health Humanities written by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, and Brian Adams was first published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan, UK. The book is a result of many years of experience of work in the field and comes at a right time after the successful organisation of some international conferences on health humanities by Professor Paul Crawford, et al. in the precedin...

Book Review: Mathematics for Physicists

A book review on Mathematics for Physicists This new book by B. R. Martin and G. Shaw [1] is part of the Manchester Physics Series, a long-established set of elementary texbooks aimed primarily at providing undergraduate physics students (but also students in other physical sciences, such as astronomy, chemistry, earth and planetary science, etc.) with relatively short, self-contained courses o...

Problem-Based Learning Applied to Electrical Engineering

The current debates with respect to the role of the education, of the schools and of the universities within contemporary society, focused on the targets of the education and on their relation with the human being, with society and culture, comprise questions of importance, such as: Which are the competencies of priority? What does education stand for: instruction, socialization, knowledge tran...

Applied Mathematics in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering

Book review: Summing up mathematics teacher education

This review examines two recent collective publications that set out to survey and synthesise knowledge in the field of mathematics teacher education. Both allude to the timeliness of such an enterprise given the growth and institutionalisation of research in this field since the early to mid 1990s. They feature an extensive (and often overlapping) authorship drawn from active researchers in th...