Mathematics Education in Antiquity

Alain Bernard (), Christine Proust () and Micah Ross ()
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Alain Bernard: Paris-Est University (UPE), Centre Alexandre Koyré, UMR EHESS
Christine Proust: CNRS & Université Paris Diderot, Laboratoire SPHERE
Micah Ross: University of Idaho

Chapter Chapter 3 in Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education, 2014, pp 27-53 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter is derived from highly heterogeneous sources both in their nature and in their geographic and chronological distribution. These sources represent different environments and refer to different cultural and institutional codes. Whereas ancient sources do not describe a coherent picture of teaching mathematics in Antiquity, some details from the better documented educational contexts of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Greco-Roman World provide impressionistic insight into these traditions. This approach shows that modern knowledge of these contexts is limited and that even the kinds of questions framing the topic depend strictly on the nature of the surviving sources.

Keywords: Mathematical Curriculum; Mathematical Text; Late Antiquity; Ancient Education; Hellenistic Period (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9155-2_3

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