Snezana Lawrence

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• PhD, History of Mathematics, Open University, UK
• Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University

A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe Mathematics is fundamental to our daily lives. Science, computing, economics—all aspects of modern life rely on some kind of maths. But how did our ancestors think about numbers? How did they use mathematics to explain and understand the world around them? Where d...

Mathematics graduates traditionally are recognised for their problem solving, critical thinking, and analytic skills. However, the methods often used to hone these skills at university are often abstract and decontextualized. This can often create a disconnect between expected capabilities of a mathematics graduate from employers and the actual pro...

This chapter has three strands that are interwoven together to trace a narrative showing how understanding of a contextual development of a mathematical concept or a technique is a necessary step in uncovering the historical development of the same. To generalise, three strands are a context and invention of an original mathematical technique; hist...

Gersonides (1288–1344), who is central to this chapter, lived in Orange, a small town in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region which today finds itself part of France. He wrote exclusively in Hebrew, and even now most of his scientific work hasn’t been translated to modern European languages. Although his major contributions to theology and Judaism wer...

This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it. It addresses questions of who creates mathematics, who uses it, and how. A broader understanding of mathematical practitioners naturally leads to a new appreciation of what counts...

In the academic year 2020-21 Middlesex University maths students accessed all learning sessions remotely. Each of these interactive sessions was live-streamed, recorded and uploaded to our Virtual Learning Environment, providing hundreds of hours of recorded, unedited maths lectures for students to review. This case study reports on a project (part...

In the academic year 2020-21 Middlesex University maths students accessed all learning sessions remotely. Each of these interactive sessions was live-streamed, recorded and uploaded to our Virtual Learning Environment, providing hundreds of hours of recorded, unedited maths lecture for students to review.This case study reports on a project (partia...

The graduate skills expected of mathematics students from employers has changed dramatically over the past decade. Increasingly maths graduates are expected to have communication, creative, programming and teamwork skills in addition to the problem solving and critical thinking skills traditionally sought by employers from mathematics graduates. In...

This chapter is the short biography of Mihailo Petrović (Belgrade, 1868 - Belgrade, 1943), who was appointed Honorary Member of ICMI in 1936

Yugoslavia was a young country when the Royaumont Seminar took place in 1959, a seminar that emerged from the New Thinking in School Mathematics initiative. This chapter, on Yugoslavia, seeks to illuminate that part of the mathematics education history of the country by looking at the three mathematicians who all contributed to a specific view of m...

This chapter contains the biographical portraits of the scholars awarded the title of Honorary Member of the Commission on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Oslo (1936) and the portrait of Charles-Ange Laisant, one of the founders of L’Enseignement Mathématique, the official organ of ICMI. Among the scholars awarded in...

In this short philosophical and discursive paper, the main objective is to reassess a new emergent role of the history of mathematics in order to bring about greater diversity and engagement in the mathematical sciences. The discussion is based around the project undertaken at a North London university and their partner pre-university college, whic...

Editorial Notes; UZDANICA; 2022, XIX; pp. 9–14

This book was a long-term project made over fifteen years of study and research. It is linked to the editorial work the author undertook on the Chymistry of Isaac Newton project (www.chymistry.org) at Indiana University, and contains a huge amount of new data and insights that should put it on the reading list of every Newton scholar. There are sev...

Mathematics education in Serbia in the New Millennium has drawn on various traditions—Yugoslavian and post-Yugoslavian—and there has also been an acute awareness of the historical roots of mathematics education in Serbia before the founding of Yugoslavia in the twentieth century. In this paper I report on a comparative study of its two main journal...

Teachers' attitudes and beliefs towards mathematics and mathematics teaching might have a significant influence on their instructional practices, the quality of teaching, but also pupils' achievement and attitudes towards the subject. Research indicates that entrants to primary teacher education programmes worldwide often have a negative attitude t...

Between 26th and 30th October 2018 the Faculty of Education in Jagodina, University of Kragujevac, and the Teacher Education Faculty, University of Belgrade, organized the first international conference on the uses of the history of mathematics in mathematics education in Serbia. The conference took place in a beautiful town of Jagodina, in the sou...

This paper summarises a particular aspect of using the history of mathematics to inspire and educate secondary level teachers. Whilst discussion about the uses of the history of mathematics in the classroom is mentioned with some of the most used approaches, the paper is itself a historical memoir. It reflects on the process in which, during a care...

Between 26th and 30th October 2018 the Faculty of Education in Jagodina, University of Kragujevac, and the Teacher Education Faculty, University of Belgrade, organized the first international conference on the uses of the history of mathematics in mathematics education in Serbia. The conference took place in a beautiful town of Jagodina, in the sou...

A New Year’s Present from a Mathematician is an exciting book dedicated to two questions: What is it that mathematicians do? And who gets to be called a ‘mathematician’ and why? This book seeks to answer these questions through a series of stories ranging from the beginning of modern mathematics through to the 20th century, but not in a usual, chr...

While Serbia was part of the federation of South-Slav countries for majority of the twentieth century, the history of its mathematics, and in particular the history of descriptive geometry in the country is sufficiently independent from that of the twentieth century Yugoslavia to merit a separate historical analysis. We do this here, although we of...

This chapter looks at the history of descriptive geometry in England, and why here it had such a short, and not a very fulfilling life. Having arrived to England in the immediate aftermath of the wars between England and France, its translation and attempts to introduce it into the educational system happened only after the 1840s. The lack of direc...

The training conference titled History of Mathematics in Mathematics Education was held at the Faculty of Education, University of Kragujevac, from 26th to 30th October 2018. The main goal of the conference was to investigate the possibilities of integrating the history of mathematics into primary, secondary and higher educational settings and expl...

Preface: Proceedings of the Training Conference History of Mathematics in Mathematics Education Faculty of Education, University of Kragujevac, Jagodina October 26 −30, 2018

Two conference papers - the plenary lecture in section 4 (pp. 515-530) on "The art and architecture of mathematics education: A study in metaphors", and a workshop summary in section 1 (p. 65) on "What can art teach us about mathematics?".

This chapter presents a project for the learning of mathematics based on its relationship with art, conducted with secondary mathematics teachers in training. It aimed to use a reorientation process in order to reenergize students’ interest in mathematics by giving them a problem that puts a mathematical concept under a new light, thus showing them...

This paper offers ideas for teachers to engage with mathematics through the historical ‘journeys’ and relationship with art and cultural and intellectual history. Its premise is that, whilst teachers’ main reason for choosing the career path of a mathematics teacher is usually their enjoyment of the subject, their later insistence on utilitarian vi...

From the multitude of popular portrayals of mathematicians, it would seem that they have an issue with their image; this chapter investigates that hypothesis, and questions whether this means that the pursuit of mathematics and the image it consequently projects, influence mathematics education. Furthermore, we explore the issue of identity of math...

An engaging book on mathematics and religion, with 'stand-alone' chapters on topics. Leading scholars from Europe and US have contributed to this book Covering diverse subjects, from the belief that mathematical study can improve piety to mathematical proof of the existence of God. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198703051.do Covering wide h...

A short popular article written after the death of famous French mathematician Alexander Grothendieck (28 March 1928-13 November 2014).

The fourth dimension, whilst contemplated from as far back as antiquity, was only studied in mathematics from the nineteenth century. Here we trace the history of these investigations, and place them in the context of their manifestations in architecture, whether real or imagined. As we take a look at the social milieu within which the study of the...

Th e history of mathematics and its uses of in mathematics education have been identifi ed and described many times in the last century or so. More recently, in the past decade, they have been classifi ed and identifi ed both in terms of the uses in the classroom, and the uses of the history of mathematics in mathematics teacher education and train...

Word of guest editor The history of mathematics and its uses of in mathematics education have been identified and described many times in the last century or so. More recently, in the past decade, they have been classified and identified both in terms of the uses in the classroom, and the uses of the history of mathematics in mathematics teacher ed...

The history of mathematics and its uses of in mathematics education have been identified and described many times in the last century or so. More recently, in the past decade, they have been classified and identified both in terms of the uses in the classroom, and the uses of the history of mathematics in mathematics teacher education and training....

HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS IN EDUCATION AND HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION – MATHEMATICAL EDUCATION CULTURES Issue Editors: Snezana Lawrence, PhD, Guest Editor Bath Spa University, School of Education, Bath, UK Olivera Đokić, PhD University of Belgrade, Teacher Education Faculty, Belgrade, Serbia

This article describes a cross-curricular project based on Shakespeare's Tempest, in which the life and work of John Dee was used to inspire lessons in mathematics.

Developable surfaces form a very small subset of all possible surfaces and were for centuries studied only in passing, but the discovery of differential calculus in the seventeenth century meant that their properties could be studied in greater depth. Here we show that the generating principles of developable surfaces were also at the core of their...

This article introduces a project which was developed as part of the Gatsby Teacher Fellowship in Mathematics (http://www.gtf.org.uk), for the 2004–5 academic year. It also discusses some other web-based resources that teachers of mathematics in England and Wales, following the National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4, can use to supplement their...

Abstract Human recombinant erythropoietin (r-HuEPO) improves quality of life in patients on maintenance haemodialysis, but the haemoglobin (Hb) level necessary to achieve this improvement is unknown. In this study, quality of life, functional capacity and symptoms of 28 haemodialysis patients with an initial Hb of 67 ±2 (mean ± SEM) g/L were assess...

The paper presented introduces a project which has been developed as part of the Gatsby Teacher Fellowship (The Gatsby Teacher Fellowships programme was established in 1998 by the trustees of the Gatsby Technical Education Projects, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, UK www.gtf.org.uk), which I have been awarded for the 2004-5 academic...

This paper will focus on a project led by the author, which aimed to introduce the history of mathematics into the curriculum through a collaborative teaching practice involving both primary and secondary schools in the South East of England. The project has been supported by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics and the...

This paper describes a way in which the mathematical heritage can be used to identify potentially 'rich' tasks undertaken by student teachers to deconstruct, and subsequently better understand, the meaning of mathematical concepts they already know and are expected to teach. It is based on a small-scale project undertaken in the South West of Engla...