Analysing Historical Mathematics Textbooks

Chapter 1. Why studying historical textbooks?.- Chapter 2. Textbooks before the invention of the printing press - orality and teaching.- Chapter 3. Textbooks in the era of the printing press - the emergence of new types of textbooks.- Chapter 4. The notion of "elements" - elementarisation and the structure of the discipline.- Chapter 5. Changes in textbook production in the wake of the French Revolution.- Chapter 6. Lacroix as an entrepreneur - His fight for the textbook market in France.- Chapter 7. Textbook versus the autonomy of the teacher - the case of Prussia.- Chapter 8. Cultural specificity of textbooks - the case of Legendre in Italy.- Chapter 9. Transmission of textbooks from metropoles.- Chapter 10. "Modern Mathematics" in the international textbook production.- Chapter 11. Conclusions.- Chapter 12. Bibliography.- Chapter 13. Index.

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History of mathematics textbooks;Methodology for analysing historical textbooks;Context of textbook production;Studying the mode of the uses of textbooks;Tensions between teacher and textbook