During these last years, the history of mathematics has been increasingly used for teaching
purposes. One of the very well-known ways of doing so is to relate historical anecdotes to …

More than a century ago, Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen wrote a book about the history of
mathematics (Zeuthen, 1902). Of course, this was not the first book on the topic, but what …

In the first part of this paper, I summarize the claim that accounts of mathematics learning
and teaching involve the coordination of analyses conducted in three non-intersecting …

Aren't there more important questions to be asked on teacher education? Questions like:
should a mathematics teacher know something about mathematics? Or about the …

There are many reasons why using the history of mathematics in the classroom is a good
idea, and this issue of Mathematics in School indicates many of them, both in theory and in …

The use of history of mathematies in the teaching and learning of mathematics requires
didactical reflection. A crucial area to explore and analyse is the relation between how …

This book provides a panorama of complimentary and forward looking perspectives on the
learning of mathematics and epistemology from some of the leading contributors to the field …

The merits of incorporating history into mathematics education have received considerable
attention and have been discussed for decades. Still, before taking as dogma that history …

For decades if not centuries now, a few voices in each gen-eration have urged the value and
importance of using history in teaching mathematics-but so far without this insight taking firm …

There is a long tradition of relating the history of mathematics to its teaching, and
increasingly this has extended throughout mathematical education. This volume brings …