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Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, James Hodgson, and the Beginnings of Secondary School Mathematics, 1st ed. 2017 A History of the Royal Mathematical School Within Christ’s Hospital, London 1673–1868 History of Mathematics Education Series

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Couverture de l’ouvrage Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, James Hodgson, and the Beginnings of Secondary School Mathematics
This book tells one of the greatest stories in the history of school mathematics. Two of the names in the title?Samuel Pepys and Isaac Newton?need no introduction, and this book draws attention to their special contributions to the history of school mathematics. According to Ellerton and Clements, during the last quarter of the seventeenth century Pepys and Newton were key players in defining what school mathematics beyond arithmetic and elementary geometry might look like. The scene at which most of the action occurred was Christ?s Hospital, which was a school, ostensibly for the poor, in central London. The Royal Mathematical School (RMS) was established at Christ?s Hospital in 1673.

It was the less well-known James Hodgson, a fine mathematician and RMS master between 1709 and 1755, who demonstrated that topics such as logarithms, plane and spherical trigonometry, and the application of these to navigation, might systematically and successfully be taughtto 12- to 16-year-old school children. From a wider history-of-school-education perspective, this book tells how the world?s first secondary-school mathematics program was created and how, slowly but surely, what was being achieved at RMS began to influence school mathematics in other parts of Great Britain, Europe, and America.

The book has been written from the perspective of the history of school mathematics. Ellerton and Clements?s analyses of pertinent literature and of archival data, and their interpretations of those analyses, have led them to conclude that RMS was the first major school in the world to teach mathematics-beyond-arithmetic, on a systematic basis, to students aged between 12 and 16.

Throughout the book, Ellerton and Clements examine issues through the lens of a lag-time theoretical perspective. From a historiographical perspective, this book emphasizes how the history of RMS can be portrayed in very different ways, depending on the vantage point from which the history is written. The authors write from the vantage point of international developments in school mathematics education and, therefore, their history of RMS differs from all other histories of RMS, most of which were written from the perspective of the history of Christ?s Hospital. 

Mathematics in the Christ’s Hospital Curriculum Before 1673.- Mathematics Beyond Arithmetic—Expanding the Domain of School Mathematics.- Stars in the RMS Firmament 1673–1798.- Years of Struggle for RMS 1673–1708.- Developments in RMS Curricula 1673–1798.- RMS Comes of Age 1709–1755: The Hodgson Era.-  William Wales: RMS Master 1776–1798.-  Redefining School Mathematics at Christ’s Hospital 1800–1868.-  An Appropriate Theoretical Lens: Lag Time.- The Importance of the Royal Mathematical School in the History of School Mathematics.-

Nerida F. Ellerton has been Professor within the Mathematics Department at Illinois State University since 2002. She holds two doctoral degrees—one in Physical Chemistry and the other in Mathematics Education. 

Between 1997 and 2002 Nerida was Dean of Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. She has taught in schools and at four universities, and has also served as consultant in numerous countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, the United States of America, and Vietnam. She has written or edited 16 books and has had more than 150 articles published in refereed journals or edited collections. Between 1993 and 1997 she was editor of the Mathematics Education Research Journal, and between 2011 and 2015 she was Associate Educator of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education.

In recent years Nerida has concentrated her research efforts in two areas—the history of schoolmathematics and problem posing in mathematics education. In 2012, 2014, and 2015, respectively, Springer published the 223-page Rewriting the History of School Mathematics in North America 1607–1861, the 367-page Abraham Lincoln’s Cyphering Book and Ten other Extraordinary Cyphering Books, and the 204-page Thomas Jefferson and his Decimals: Neglected Years in the History of U.S. School Mathematics. She jointly authored each of those books with M. A. (Ken) Clements.

In 2015 Springer published a 567-page edited collection on problem posing which was jointly edited by Florence Mihaela Singer, Nerida, and Jinfa Cai. In 2015 Nerida received the outstanding researcher award of the College of Arts and Science at Illinois State University.

M. A. (Ken) Clements’ masters and doctoral degrees were from the University of Melbourne, and at various times in his career he has taught, full-time, in primary and secondary schools, for a total of 15 years. He has t
Presents a history of the first secondary school mathematics program in the world Includes an analysis of pertinent literature and of archival data from major archival collections in UK and USA Highlights Samuel Pepys' and Isaac Newton's special contributions to the history of school mathematics Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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