Abstract
search of a place in history for mathematics: A lecture series in South Africa
Highlights
When mathematics started to become an independent domain of study in the mid-17th century, learned individuals were interested in looking for ‘truth’ and began exchanging their ideas in writing
The story of mathematics tells the process of finding truths at a basic level, i.e. the history of math is the history of fundamentals
As George Gheverghese Joseph points out: The standard treatment of the history of non-European mathematics exhibited a deeprooted historiographical bias in the selection and interpretation of facts, and that mathematical activity outside Europe has as a consequence been ignored, devalued or distorted.4(p.3)
Summary
When mathematics started to become an independent domain of study in the mid-17th century, learned individuals were interested in looking for ‘truth’ (i.e. universal patterns that do not vary based on time and place) and began exchanging their ideas in writing. Let us first examine five approaches in studying the history of mathematics. Five approaches to the study of the history of mathematics
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