Christian Wolff’s Elementa Matheseos Universae, Methodology, and Mathematical Education

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32610-3_3" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32610-3_3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32610-3_3" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-32610-3_3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Christian Wolff’s Elementa Matheseos Universae, Methodology, and Mathematical Education

Original language description

Christian Wolff (1679–1754), well known as a leading philosophical figure in the Enlightenment, has received relatively little attention from historians of mathematics despite his having had a vast mathematical production. The main reason for this neglect is that Wolff was not an original mathematician, his mathematical activity being predominantly devoted to the writing of textbooks and compendia. In this contribution, I shall survey his most successful textbook: Elementa matheseos universae. Originally published in two volumes in 1713–1715, it went through several editions and extensions throughout the eighteenth century, becoming a reference text for the teaching and learning of mathematics in continental Europe until about halfway through the eighteenth century. In my survey, I shall pay particular attention to Wolff’s methodological considerations, advancing the thesis that they should be understood in connection with his pedagogical concerns about teaching mathematics in the most proficient way.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GJ19-03125Y" target="_blank" >GJ19-03125Y: Mathematics in the Czech lands: from the Jesuit teaching to Bernard Bolzano</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Mathematical Book Histories. Printing, Provenance, and Practices of Reading

ISBN

978-3-031-32609-7

Number of pages of the result

39

Pages from-to

73-111

Number of pages of the book

589

Publisher name

Birkhauser

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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