What makes a great mathematics teacher? The case of Augustus De Morgan

American Mathematical Monthly

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 534-552

  Rice, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/2589465     Document Type: Article

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