JOURNAL OF DIALECTICS OF NATURE
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Vomule 44, Issue 8
August, 2022
Kinnosuke Ogura: A Pioneer in The Study of Social History of Mathematics
Author: ZHANG Jianwei   FENG Lisheng      
Published Online: 10 July 2022
DOI: 10.15994/j.1000-0763.2022.08.016

Abstract: 

Kinnosuke Ogura was a renowned mathematical historian and educator in modern Japan. He has

made outstanding contribution to the study of mathematics education and the history of mathematics. In the filed

of mathematical history, he began to study the social problems of mathematics in the late 1920s. He believed

that the sociality of mathematics must be concretized in the study of mathematical history, and investigated the

relationship between the ideology, the economic foundation and the development of mathematics. He was a

pioneer in the social history of mathematics.


Key Words: 

Kinnosuke Ogura; Mathematical history; Sociality


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