Abstract

MONTOITO, Rafael  and  GARNICA, Antonio Vicente Marafioti. Lewis Carroll, education and the teaching of geometry in victorian england. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.45, pp.09-27. ISSN 2236-3459.  https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-3459/45579.

Research partly motivated by Lewis Carroll's Euclid and his modern rivals (1879) portuguese translation, this paper presents some hermeneutical remarks taken as necessary to understand the context in which such book was produced. The paper focuses particularly on education, in general, and on the teaching of mathematics and Geometry in victorian England.

Keywords : Lewis Carroll; Euclides e seus rivais modernos; história da educação; educação matemática; geometria.

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