Doctoral Dissertation Research: Mathematics, Politics, and Education at Trinity College Dublin, 1790-1916

博士论文研究：都柏林三一学院的数学、政治和教育，1790-1916 年

• 批准号: 9810277
• 负责人: M. Norton Wise
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-15 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9810277&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Mathematics; Politics

This dissertation project explores the role of mathematics in its larger social context. It seeks to demonstrate the importance of the previously unexamined role of mathematics in Irish History by analyzing the relationship between mathematics, education, and social change in nineteenth century Ireland through an investigation of Trinity College, Dublin. Trinity's role in Irish society was to maintain the privileges of the Protestant elite in a predominantly Catholic country, and during the period in which those privileges were most forcefully challenged, mathematics came to play a central role in the college's curriculum. By tracing debates about the curriculum as well as debates about the religious or social implications of new scientific theories, the project will demonstrate how mathematics and mathematical science were seen as important tools in the struggle to accomplish specific social and political goals.

本论文项目探讨了数学在更大的社会背景下的作用。它试图通过对都柏林的Trinity学院的调查，分析数学、教育和19世纪爱尔兰社会变革之间的关系，展示数学在爱尔兰历史上的重要性。 Trinity在爱尔兰社会中的作用是维护新教精英在一个以天主教为主的国家的特权，在这些特权受到最有力挑战的时期，数学在学院的课程中发挥了核心作用。 通过追踪关于课程的辩论以及关于新科学理论的宗教或社会影响的辩论，该项目将展示数学和数学科学如何被视为实现特定社会和政治目标的重要工具。