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Gosztonyi, Katalin – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2021
In this article, I present the eighteenth century's polemic of Bernoulli and d'Alembert concerning the smallpox epidemic and a prevention method called inoculation. Through an analysis of the polemic and the related resources, I show that this historical debate has various interests for mathematics education; and more specifically it can help…
Descriptors: Educational History, Pandemics, Communicable Diseases, Mathematics Education