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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GJ19-03125Y" target="_blank" >GJ19-03125Y: Matematika v Českých zemích: od jezuitského učení po Bernarda Bolzana</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

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

ISBN

978-3-031-32609-7

Počet stran výsledku

39

Strana od-do

73-111

Počet stran knihy

589

Název nakladatele

Birkhauser

Místo vydání

Cham

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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