Del i serien International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching

Analysing Historical Mathematics Textbooks

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvGert Schubring

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This book is about the creation and production of textbooks for learning and teaching mathematics. As this topic has not been sufficiently explored in the literature, it will be very well received by scholars of mathematics education, mathematics teacher educators and anyone with an interest in the field.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-01-05
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternational Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching
Antal sidor208
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031176692

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Gert Schubring is a retired member of the Institut für Didaktik der Mathematik, a research institute at Bielefeld University, and was for various periods a visiting professor for history of mathematics at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). His research interests focus on the history of mathematics and the sciences in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and their systemic interrelation with social-cultural systems. One of his specialisations is history of mathematics education. He has published a great number of papers in journals and many books, among which is Conflicts between Generalization, Rigor and Intuition: Number Concepts Underlying the Development of Analysis in 17th–19th century France and Germany (New York, 2005). He was Chief-Editor of the International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education from 2005 to 2015, and is co-editor of the series International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching, published by Springer. He organised and co-organised various international workshops and conferences on history of mathematics education and history of mathematics.. He participated in numerous Juries for doctoral dissertations in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Spain, Australia and Brazil.In 2019, he received the Hans Freudenthal Award by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI), for having established the research programme on the history of mathematics education.

Chapter 1. Why studying historical textbooks?.- Chapter 2. Textbooks before the invention of the printing press – orality and teaching.- Chapter 3. Textbooks in the era of the printing press – the emergence of new types of textbooks.- Chapter 4. The notion of “elements” – elementarisation and the structure of the discipline.- Chapter 5. Changes in textbook production in the wake of the French Revolution.- Chapter 6. Lacroix as an entrepreneur – His fight for the textbook market in France.- Chapter 7. Textbook versus the autonomy of the teacher – the case of Prussia.- Chapter 8. Cultural specificity of textbooks – the case of Legendre in Italy.- Chapter 9. Transmission of textbooks from metropoles.- Chapter 10. ”Modern Mathematics” in the international textbook production.- Chapter 11. Conclusions.- Chapter 12. Bibliography.- Chapter 13. Index.