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Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education

History and Epistemology of Mathematics: An Ever-Increasing Interest for New Conceptions and Practices in Mathematics Education

In the last 40 years or so, integrating history of mathematics in mathematics education has emerged as a worldwide intensively studied area of new pedagogical practices and specific research activities. However, already in the second half of the nineteenth century, mathematicians like F. Klein and A. De Morgan and historians like P. Tannery and G. Loria were showing an active interest in the role of the history of mathematics in education already. At that time, history enters into textbooks, e.g., in France in Rouché and Comberousse (Barbin et al. 2008, Chap. 2.2). At the beginning of the twentieth century, this interest was revived as a consequence of the discourse and the related debates on the foundations of mathematics. Poincaré criticized Hilbert’s axiomatic approach and declared that the history of science should be the “principal guide for the...

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  1. UFR of Sciences and Technics, Laboratory of Mathematics Jean Leray, Nantes, France

    Évelyne Barbin

  2. Department of Mathematics, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada

    David Guillemette

  3. Department of Education, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece

    Costantinos Tzanakis

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  1. Department of Education, Centre for Mathematics Education, London South Bank University, London, UK

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  1. Laboratoire de Didactique André Revuz (EA4434), Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France

    Michèle Artigue

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Barbin, É., Guillemette, D., Tzanakis, C. (2020). History of Mathematics and Education. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0_69

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