Abraham Lincoln's Cyphering Book and Ten Other Extraordinary Cyphering Books

by Nerida F Ellerton, M A Ken Clements, McKenzie Alexander Clements, et al.

This well-illustrated book provides strong qualitative and comparative support for the main arguments developed by Nerida Ellerton and Ken Clements in their groundbreaking Rewriting this History of School Mathematics in North America 1607-1861: The Central Role of Cyphering Books. Eleven extraordinary handwritten school mathematics manuscripts are carefully analyzed--six were prepared entirely in Great Britain, four entirely in North America,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331937737X
• ISBN13: 9783319377377
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 367 Pages