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