El pasado lunes 10 de octubre la Dr. Ann Moyer, profesora del Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de Pennsylvania, en USA nos dió una charla en el Coloquio de Matemáticas, en el marco del Seminario de Geometría, Seminario de Ecuaciones Diferenciales, la Cátedra de Modelos Económicos del Banco Central de Venezuela y el CEIDEC 2011. A continuación un resumen de su charla.
Rithmomachia in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
In these two talks I will address a common theme: what did medieval and Renaissance Europeans mean when they identified mathematical study as a liberal art, part of general education? I will focus first on an educational game called rithmomachia, or the "philosophers' game," ludus philosophorum, invented in the eleventh century and played until about 1600. It helped students to learn and to practice the study of number found in the textbooks of Boethius (ca. 480–524), a work seldom read or used today. The game’s spread and popularity helps to explain how mathematical study was believed to build character and morality in students.
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