This book celebrates Gert Schubring's 80th birthday and honors his impactful contributions to the field of history of mathematics and its education. Recognized with the prestigious Hans Freudenthal Award in 2019, Schubring's academic work sets the tone for this volume.
The thoughtfully curated articles in this collection offer insightful studies on textbooks and biographies of key figures in mathematics and mathematics education, contextualizing their significance within the broader historical landscape, and providing the readers with a deeper understanding of the development of the history of mathematics and its education. Researchers as well as curious readers and students will find this collection to be a valuable resource in the field.
Introduction.- The Dissemination of Cartesian Ideas. An Analysis of Practice with Diagrams in van Schooten's Reading of Descartes.- Women's Access to Mathematical Research in Spain (1868-1936): The State of the Art.- The Training of Mathematics Teachers: A Higher Standpoint.- Paulian’s Commentaire on L’Hospital’s Analyse des Infiniment Petits: On How to Teach Differential Calculus in the 1760s.- The Brazilian Mathematics Textbook Assessment Program and its Influence on Academic Research.- Mistaken Identities: Scribal Errors or Conceptual Missteps in Ancient Chinese “Multiplication” Tables?.- An Episode from the History of Mathematics at the Beginning of the 20th Century (to the Prehistory of the Soviet Mathematical School).
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