An appeal to the personalistic component of the history of mathematics, stories about scientists who have contributed to its development, contribute to the implementation of the educational aspect in the teaching of mathematics. A question arises: how can a mathematics teacher shape the moral qualities of a child, including patriotic and…

Historians of mathematics considered the nineteenth century to be the Golden Age of mathematics. During this time period many areas of mathematics, such as algebra and geometry, were being placed on rigorous foundations. Another area of mathematics which experienced fundamental change was analysis. The drive for rigor in calculus began in 1797…

This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at Laval University in Québec City, Québec. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims of the Study…

This article, one in a series of brief biographies of outstanding mathematicians reviews the life and accomplishments of Karl W. Weierstrass. (SD)

Presents a biography of the theologian and philosopher, Francis William Newman (1805-1897), the brother of John Henry Newman. His mathematical contributions were primarily in the area of analysis. (RS)

President Garfield's life is reviewed, and his proof of the Pythagorean theorem is presented. (DT)