VIII Congress of the Italian Society of History of Mathematics

22 November 2008

A session of the eighth Congress of the Italian Society of History of Mathematics (Ferrara, 20-22 November 2008) was devoted to the “History of mathematics teaching”.

Two plenary lectures:

Giorgio Bolondi (Università di Bologna), Bourbaki e la didattica della matematica in Italia
Andrea Silvestri (Politecnico di Milano), Matematica e ingegneria al Politecnico di Milano da Brioschi a Bottani

and numerous brief talks (C. Falcolini, G. Ferraro, L. Giacardi, E. Luciano, N. Palladino, C.S. Roero) were given.