Short biography and Contributions to mathematics education of Gino Loria

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Short biography and Contributions to mathematics education of Gino Loria

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International Studies in the History of Mathematics
and its Teaching
Series Editors: Alexander Karp · Gert Schubring
International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching
Series Editors: Alexander Karp · Gert Schubring
FulviaFuringhetti
LiviaGiacardiEditors
TheInternational
Commission
onMathematical
Instruction,1908-2008:
People, Events,
and Challenges in
Mathematics Education
Furinghetti· GiacardiEds. TheInternational Commission onMathematical
Instruction,1908-2008: People, Events, and
Challenges in Mathematics Education
FulviaFuringhetti· LiviaGiacardiEditors
TheInternational Commission onMathematical Instruction,1908-
2008: People, Events, and Challenges in Mathematics Education
Thepurpose ofthis volume is tounderstand and outline theevolution oftheobjectives
and field ofaction ofthe International Commission onMathematical Instruction
(ICMI) fromits creation in1908 in Rome until2008, through an analysis ofthemain
events and protagonists ofits history. It consists ofthree parts, each exploring different
facets ofthese hundred years ofICMI’s life.
In Part I, four chapters retrace thethree main phases in thecentury ofICMI’s
life: Thefoundation and early period up toWWI (Chapter 1); Therebirth in1952
as a permanent subcommission oftheInternational Mathematical Union and
thebroadening ofthescope ofaction until Freudenthal’s innovations (Chapter 2);
The“Renaissance” in thelate 1960s and further development up to2008 (Chapter 3).
Chapter 4 presents a wide selection ofunpublished letters and documents belonging
totheperiod1908-1974, coming fromdifferent archives, especially fromtheIMU
Archives in Berlin.
Part II presents useful data about thelife ofICMI: TheTimeline ofICMI,1908-2008;
TheCentral and Executive Committees oftheCommission (1908 -2009); TheTerms
ofReference forICMI (1954-2007); Mathematics Education in theInternational
Congresses ofMathematicians (1897-2006); Maps ontheprocess ofinternationalization
ofICMI; Data concerning thefirst ICME (Lyon1969).
Part III contains biographical portraits ofthe54 members oftheCentral/Executive
Committee ofICMI who passed away in thefirst hundred years oftheCommission,
and also includes theportraits ofscholars awarded thetitle ofHonorary Member
oftheCommission during theInternational Congress ofMathematicians in Oslo
(1936), and ofCharles-Ange Laisant, one ofthefounders ofthejournal L’ En s e ig n e m en t
Mathématique , theofficial organ ofICMI. Theportraits in Part III ofthevolume are
designed according toa particular point ofview because they focus ontheactual
involvement ofthese scholars in ICMI’s development and, more generally, in
mathematics education.
ISBN 978-3-031-04312-3
9 783031 043123