Lithuanian Mathematics Textbooks by President Antanas Smetona - Advances in Historical Studies

AHS > Vol.9 No.1, March 2020

Lithuanian Mathematics Textbooks by President Antanas Smetona ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ahs.2020.91001 403 Downloads 1,129 Views Citations

Author(s)

Juozas Banionis

Affiliation(s)

Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.

ABSTRACT

The Seimas (Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania) proclaimed 2019 the year of President Antanas Smetona. In this article, the author returns to the mathematical activities of A. Smetona, future President of the Republic of Lithuania, supplementing his presentation delivered in Lithuania in 2017 with new sources, and aims to familiarise readers with this exceptional personality in English. The article discusses circumstances under which arithmetic and algebra textbooks were written by A. Smetona in 1915, a member of the Textbook Publishing Commission under the Lithuanian Science Society. The main features of publications for developing Lithuanian gymnasiums of that time and their importance in the history of Lithuanian education.

KEYWORDS

Lithuanian Textbooks, Theory of Arithmetic, Theory of Algebra, Lithuanian Terminology of Mathematics, Senior School (Gymnasium)

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Banionis, J. (2020) Lithuanian Mathematics Textbooks by President Antanas Smetona. Advances in Historical Studies, 9, 1-12. doi: 10.4236/ahs.2020.91001.

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