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Volume 2 Number 2, 2007

Table of Contents

Editorial
Gert Schubring

Research Papers
The Numbers One and Zero in Northern European Textbooks
Kristín Bjarnadóttir

Axiomatics Between Hilbert and the New Math: Diverging Views on Mathematical Research and Their Consequences on Education
Leo Corry

Identity and Culture in Didactic Choices Made by Mathematics Teachers of the Trieste Section of “Mathesis” from 1918 to 1923
Luciana Zuccheri and Verena Zudini

Notes
Interview with Henry Pollak
Alexander Karp

Historical Document (1901)
David Eugene Smith (Translated by Eileen F. Donoghue)

Reviews
Karine Chemla, Guo Shuchun (Eds.): Les Neuf Chapitres, Le Classique mathématique de la Chine ancienne et ses commentaries, rev.
Alain Bernard

Renaud d´Enfert (Ed.): L´enseignement mathématique à l´école primaire de la Révolution à nos jours, rev.
Siegbert Schmidt

Hélène Gispert, Nicole Hulin, Marie-Claire Robic (Eds.): Science et enseignement: l'exemple de la grande réforme des programmes du lycée au tout début du XXe siècle, rev.
Gert Schubring


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Volume 2 Number 1, 2007

Table of Contents

Research Papers
Quarrels of a Marriage of Convenience: On the History of Mathematics Education for Engineers in Spain
Elena Ausejo
Memory and Mathematics in the Tamil Tinnai Schools of South India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
D. Senthil Babu
Exams in Algebra in Russia: Toward a History of High Stakes Testing
Alexander Karp

Reviews

Menso Folkerts, The Development of Mathematics in Medieval Europe: The Arabs, Euclid, Regiomontanus (Variorum collected studies series). Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co, 2006.
Barnabas Hughes
Frederick K.S. Leung,. et al. (eds.), Mathematics education in different cultural traditions: a comparative study of East Asia and the West; the 13th ICMI study. New York: Springer, 2006
Gert Schubring
Livia Giacardi (ed.), Da Casati a Gentile; momenti di storia dell'ínsegnamento secondario della matematica in Italia [Moments in the history of secondary school mathematics teaching in Italy]. Sarzana (La Spezia): Agorà Publ., 2006.
Gert Schubring

Notes

Recent Journal Publications on the History of Mathematics Education

Announcement of a symposium: “The First Century of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (1908–2008): Reflecting and Shaping the World of Mathematics Education”

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Volume 1 Number 1, 2006

Table of Contents

Editorial
Gert Schubring

Research Papers
Competing Arguments for the Geometry Course: Why Were American High School Students Supposed to Study Geometry in the Twentieth Century?
Gloriana González and Patricio G. Herbst
The Role of Projective Geometry in Italian Education and Institutions at the End of the 19th Century
Marta Menghini
The Theorem of Thales: A Study of the Naming of Theorems in School Geometry Textbooks
Dimitris Patsopoulos and Tasos Patronis
A Turning Point in Secondary School Mathematics in Brazil: Euclides Roxo and the Mathematics Curricular Reforms of 1931 and 1942
João Pitombeira de Carvalho

Notes
Sources for the History of Mathematics Education in Brazil
Gert Schubring

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