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Mark Vygodsky: Several Episodes from the Life of a Scholar (2018)

Karp, Alexander (Author)

British Journal for the History of Mathematics
Volume: 33
Issue: 1
Pages: 33-49

DOI: 10.1080/17498430.2017.1286558

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2017.1286558

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Science and politics Mathematics education Mathematics 20th century Soviet Union Vygodskij, Mark Âkovlevič

The subject of this paper is Mark Vygodsky, a prominent Soviet mathematician, one of the founders of the Soviet school of the history of mathematics. The paper draws on Vygodsky's surviving archive to develop a better understanding of how the life of a scholar unfolded within the context of Soviet reality. Discussion in the paper is confined to several episodes connected with Vygodsky's work as the author of books for secondary school students and as a mathematics teacher educator. It is argued that an examination of these episodes adds to the existing picture of the time when they took place, by shedding light not only on the significance of the political in a field seemingly distant from politics, but also on the position of the mathematics community and of people interested in mathematics education in general.

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