The love affair with descriptive geometry: its history in Serbia

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Jevtić-Novaković, K. and Lawrence, S. 2019. The love affair with descriptive geometry: its history in Serbia. in: Barbin, É., Menghini, M. and Volkert, K. (ed.) Descriptive Geometry, The Spread of a Polytechnic Art: The legacy of Gaspard Monge Cham, Switzerland Springer International Publishing. pp. 295-311
Chapter titleThe love affair with descriptive geometry: its history in Serbia
AuthorsJevtić-Novaković, K. and Lawrence, S.
Abstract

While Serbia was part of the federation of South-Slav countries for majority of the twentieth century, the history of its mathematics, and in particular the history of descriptive geometry in the country is sufficiently independent from that of the twentieth century Yugoslavia to merit a separate historical analysis. We do this here, although we offer some remarks which include an overview of the ‘Yugoslav’ years as the twentieth century was in many ways different to the tradition we investigate. We conclude with remarks about the love affair with descriptive geometry, and its longevity in the Serbian educational system.

KeywordsDescriptive geometry, Serbia, nacrtna geometrija, Atanasije Nikolić, Emilijan Josimović, Dimitrije Stojanović, Stevan Davidović, Mihailo Petrović, Petar Anagnosti
Page range295-311
Book titleDescriptive Geometry, The Spread of a Polytechnic Art: The legacy of Gaspard Monge
EditorsBarbin, É., Menghini, M. and Volkert, K.
PublisherSpringer International Publishing
Place of publicationCham, Switzerland
SeriesInternational Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching (ISHMT)
ISBN
Hardcover9783030148072
Electronic9783030148089
Publication dates
Print25 Sep 2019
Online02 Jul 2019
Publication process dates
Deposited02 Apr 2020
Accepted25 Sep 2018
Output statusPublished
Additional information

Series ISSN: 2524-8022

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14808-9_17
LanguageEnglish
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