Analysing Historical Mathematics Textbooks
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| Summary: | XI, 208 p. 49 illus., 20 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Series: | International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17670-8 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.