Analysing Historical Mathematics Textbooks

Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Schubring, Gert (Author)
Institution som forfatter: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XI, 208 p. 49 illus., 20 illus. in color.
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Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Udgivelse:1st ed. 2022.
Serier:International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching,
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Online adgang:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17670-8
Format: Electronisk eBog
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • 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.