History of Mathematics and Its Contexts: Essays in Honor of Gert Schubring (Trends in the History of Science)

Preface
Contents
Introduction
The Dissemination of Cartesian Ideas. An Analysis of Practice with Diagrams in Van Schooten’s Reading of Descartes
	Introduction
	Practice with Diagrams in Descartes
	Van Schooten\'s Explanations in the Commentaries
	Conclusions
	References
Women’s Access to Mathematical Research in Spain (1868–1936): The State of the Art
	Introduction
	Two Women’s Mathematics Textbooks in Eighteenth-Century Spain
	Women\'s Access to Higher Mathematics Education in Spain
	Women\'s Access to Mathematical Research in Spain
	Final Remarks
	References
The Training of Mathematics Teachers: A Higher Standpoint
	Klein’s Volumes on “Elementary Mathematics” and Their Translations
	Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint
	University Courses and the Training of Mathematics Teachers
		The First University Courses in the Bachelor’s Degree
		The Attitude of the University Teacher
		Intensive Teaching in Advanced Courses
		Extensive Teaching in the Curriculum “Mathematics Education”
		Mathematical Knowledge to Stand Above
	Conclusions
	References
Paulian’s Commentaire on L’Hospital’s Analyse des infiniment petits: On How to Teach Differential Calculus in the 1760s
	Introduction
	Paulian and His Commentaire on L’Hospital’s Analyse
	Some Notes on Fundamental Concepts
	On the Question and Answer Format and Prerequisite Knowledge
	Final Remarks
	References
The Brazilian Mathematics Textbook Assessment Program and Its Influence on Academic Research
	Introduction
	The Assessment Program
	The Influence of Participation in PNLD on the Number of Ph.D. and M.Sc Dissertations on Mathematics Textbooks
	The Studied Dissertations
	References
Mistaken Identities: Scribal Errors or Conceptual Missteps in Ancient Chinese “Multiplication” Tables?
	Beginning with the Basics
	Edouard Chavannes and the First Published Han Dynasty Nine-Nines Table
	Working on the Stein Collection of Material from Turkestan
	Chavannes’s Transcription and Interpretation of the Han Dynasty Nine-Nines Table
	Publication of the Nine-Nines Table in Chinese
	The Evidence from Liye, Three Han Dynasty Nine-Nines Tables Excavated in 2002
	References
An Episode from the History of Mathematics at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (To the Prehistory of the Soviet Mathematical School)
	References
Die Vorgeschichte und die Gründung des mathematisch-physikalischen Seminars an der Universität Göttingen (1850)
	Anhang 1: Sterns Entwurf und seine Motivation
	Anhang 2: Gauß‘ Brief an das Universitäts-Kuratorium, Göttingen, 6.11.1849
	Anhang 3: Endgültige Statuten
	References
D’Alembert: Mathematics and the Enlightenment
	Integration of Rational Differentials, Theory of Imaginary Quantities and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
	The Algebraization of the Integration of Irrational Differentials: Toward Elliptic Integrals
	Study of Systems of Differential Equations: Theory of Linear Systems with Constant Coefficients
	The Theory of Partial Differential Equations: Toward a New Branch of Analysis
	The Foundations of Infinitesimal Calculus and the Theory of Limits
	Pure Mathematics and Mixed Mathematics in the Work of D’Alembert
	Mathematics and the Enlightenment
	References
Forgetting Past Science—Reconstructing Past Science
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	References
A Revolutionary in Mathematics Education (On V.R. Mrochek)
	V.R. Mrochek Before the Revolution of 1917
	“The Pedagogy of Mathematics”
	Mrochek’s Other Works
	Reviews of Mrochek’s Works
	Mrochek’s Work on Preparing and Conducting the Congress of Mathematics Teachers
	Mrochek After the Revolution of 1917. Conflict with Lunacharsky
	Subsequent Years and Resignation from the Communist Party
	Collaboration with N.A. Morozov
	Arrest and Death
	Discussion
	References
Concept of Transmission as a Bipolar Process: The Case of the Formation of a Mathematical Community in Brazil
	Concept of Transmission
	Brazil’s Case
	Formation Stages of a Mathematical Community in Brazil
	From Reception to Its Own Production: The Importance of the Concept of Transmission as a Bipolar Process
	References
Deutsche Mathematiker unter der Nazi-Diktatur
	Literatur
Mathematics Textbooks as Sources of Research: A Look at Political and Cultural Aspects
	Introduction
	Investigations in Brazilian Textbooks of Germanic Immigrants’ Authors
	Investigations into Mathematics Textbooks of the Soviet Period
	Conclusions
	References
“a doctissimo matheseos candidato Weierstrass diligenter et accurate expositam”—The First Publication of Karl Weierstraß, on Analytic Factorials
	Weierstraß as a School Teacher and the Late Publication of His Treatise for the Teacher’s Exam
	Gudermann and His Academic Career
	The Mathematics and the History of Analytic Factorials
	The Treatise “Bemerkungen über die analytischen Facultäten” by Weierstraß
	The Meeting of Crelle and Weierstraß
	A Clash with Ohm?
	Conclusion
	References
The 1824 Calcutta School-Book Society Arabic and Persian Edition of Euclid’s Elements: An Unusual Approach to Textbook Production in Colonial India
	The Anglicist—Orientalist Controversy in Indian Education
	The Calcutta School-Book Society
	The Arabic Editor: Thomas T. Thomason
	The Persian Editor/Translator: Hydur Alee
		Al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr Kitāb Uqlīdis
		Quṭb Al-Dīn Al-Shīrāzī—The Persian Translator of the Taḥrīr
		Al-Shīrāzī’s Persian Translation and Durrat Al-Tāj
	Thomason’s Justifications for His Edition
	Thomason’s Editing Procedures
	Features of Thomason’s Edition of the Elements: Additions to Al-Ṭūsī’s Text
	Features of Thomason’s Edition of the Elements: Retained Comments from Al-Ṭūsī
	Features of the Persian Translation
	The Fate of Thomason’s Arabic Edition and Its Persian Translation
	Concluding Thoughts
	References
Curriculum Vitae
Publications of Gert Schubring
	Books and Monographs
	Chapters in Books
	Articles in Journals and Periodicals
	Reviews
Index