Abstract
The Seimas (Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania) proclaimed 2019 the year of President Antanas Smetona. In this article, the author returns to the mathematical activities of A. Smetona, future President of the Republic of Lithuania, supplementing his presentation delivered in Lithuania in 2017 with new sources, and aims to familiarise readers with this exceptional personality in English. The article discusses circumstances under which arithmetic and algebra textbooks were written by A. Smetona in 1915, a member of the Textbook Publishing Commission under the Lithuanian Science Society. The main features of publications for developing Lithuanian gymnasiums of that time and their importance in the history of Lithuanian education.
Highlights
Antanas Smetona (1874-1944)1, the future President of the Republic of Lithuania, who obtained the diploma of a lawyer in Saint Petersburg University in 1902, was a man of science and possessed the talent of a teacher
Feeling possible shortcomings of “Aritmetikos teorija” (The Theory of Arithmetic), its author responded in the following way: “I think that having returned to Lithuania from Russia our linguists and mathematicians will correct my imperfect attempt and hope that our teachers of mathematics will write a better theory of arithmetic in the course of time” (Smetona, 1921: p. 3)
For the first time in a textbook on mathematics published in Lithuanian, the studied object was presented: algebra teaches “to tackle mathematical problems using letters instead of numbers, it devises general formula, which is good for solving homogenous problems, highlights and investigates those general formulas and uses them for
Summary
Antanas Smetona (1874-1944)1, the future President of the Republic of Lithuania, who obtained the diploma of a lawyer in Saint Petersburg University in 1902, was a man of science and possessed the talent of a teacher. Lithuanian Textbooks, Theory of Arithmetic, Theory of Algebra, Lithuanian Terminology of Mathematics, Senior School (Gymnasium) The available archives contain information on LSS, which was active in development of Lithuanian senior schools as well as in preparation of textbooks for various study subjects.
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