Researching the History of Mathematics Education by Fulvia Furinghetti & Alexander Karp

Author:Fulvia Furinghetti & Alexander Karp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

3 Publications on Dutch Mathematics and Mathematics Education in the 17th Century

Mainly the recent and most important publications on the situation in the northern Netherlands are mentioned here. For more detailed information, older publications and articles see Krüger (2014).

Van Maanen (1987) provides an inventory and a systematic description of 17th century mathematical manuscripts in the library of Leiden University. His evidence made it clear that Frans van Schooten Sr . was indeed the author of BPL 1013, which until then was sometimes disputed. Boekholt and de Booy (1987) published on the history of the school in the Netherlands (including the teaching of arithmetic), from the Middle Ages until the 20th century. De Booy (1980) wrote in more detail on primary education in the towns of Utrecht from 1580 until the 19th century. Kool (1999) published research on Dutch arithmetic books from the 15th and 16th century. Those books could of course also be used for self-instruction.

Several authors have described the Duytsche Mathematique and the teaching plan by Stevin (Bierens de Haan 1878; Molhuysen 1913; Muller and Zandvliet 1987; Winter 1988). However, not much attention has been paid by these authors to the implementation of the teaching plan, the teachers or the characteristics of the teaching content.

Dopper (2014) published research on Frans van Schooten Jr. who, as the successor of his father, taught Duytsche Mathematique from 1645 until 1660. This publication also contains a systematic description, based on the method used by van Maanen (see van Maanen 1987), of the manuscripts in the Van Schooten collection, in the library of Groningen University. Moreover Dopper gives an overview of the teaching topics and their treatment by Frans van Schooten Jr.

Two more publications on mathematics teaching at the Dutch universities are relevant for this paper. De Wreede (2007) published research on Willebrord Snellius (1580–1626) , professor of mathematics at Leiden University from 1613 to 1626. Dijkstra (2012) describes the position of mathematics at the University of Franeker during the 17th century.

Van Gulik-Gulikers (2005) published research on mathematical practitioners in which she describes surveying instruments and practice of surveying in the 17th century. Sitters (2007) published his research on Sybrandt Hansz. Cardinaels, a teacher of mathematics and arithmetic , who published a popular collection of geometrical problems, Hondert geometrische question met hare solutien (Hundred geometrical questions with their solutions), around 1614.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.