Article ID: CBB001451430

Questions/ réponses dans les périodiques britanniques des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles: un genre éditorial à la croisée de deux pratiques mathématiques (2014)

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The persistence and wide-ranging popularity of the ``questions and answers'' genre in British journals during this period can be viewed as a convergence of two different mathematical practices: (1) the avocational, problem-solving tradition with roots in the dynamic almanac market of the eighteenth century. (2) the problem-solving tendencies and tastes of Cambridge graduates and the students of these graduates. These tendencies and tastes were encouraged through the conversion of the Cambridge Tripos to a paper-based examination at the turn of the 19th century and the subsequent diffusion of paper-based examinations throughout Britain during the second half of the 19th century. The convergence of these two practices resulted in the persistence of a particular method for mathematical communication and discovery that resisted the stratifying forces of social class, and later, professionalization. This paper will trace the ``questions and answers'' genre from its beginnings at the turn of the eighteenth century, to 1918, when the Mathematical Questions from the ``Educational Times'' ended.

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Authors & Contributors
Nobrega, Hugo
Viana, Petrucio
Cerioli, Márcia R.
Silveira, Guilherme
Dunning, David E.
Moretti, Alessio
Concepts
Mathematics
Logic
Geometry
Philosophy of mathematics
Universities and colleges
Science education and teaching
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
England
Germany
France
Institutions
Cambridge University
Oxford University
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