Modern Mathematics and Italian identity in Brazilian writers of textbooks formation

• Grant number: 12/24076-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: June 01, 2013
• End date: June 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History
• Principal Investigator: Rogerio Monteiro de Siqueira
• Grantee: Luciana Vieira Souza da Silva
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to reconstruct, in a prosopographical way, the life's trajectory of some writers of mathematics textbooks of the 1960s, especially those with Italian origin wich passed by the Ginásio da Capital, the Instituto de Educação and also by the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo. We would like to understand, by one side, how the habitus and identity immigrant were decisive social characteristics in the genesis of this social group, and by the other side, how these individuals have contributed to the process of reception of modern mathematics in Brazil and its subsequent adaptation to primary and junior highschools and therefore, to the modernization processes that lived Brazil in the period.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SILVA, Luciana Vieira Souza da. The Italian Mission of the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras of the Universidade de São Paulo: science, education and fascism (1934-1942). 2015. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH) São Paulo.