On the Educational Study on Tangents of curves

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In this paper I examined the tangents to curves through the history of mathematics, expecially that of the Greek geometry and seventeenth century. The purpose of this examination is to show that the mathematical concept of curves is changed by the problems. And I analyzed the text books from the junior to high school. I found that the tangents which aretaught in junior school correspond to those of Greece, and the tangents in high school those of seventeenth century.