Euclid Transmogrified

Susan M.C. Mac Donald: Euclid Transmogrified

A National Scandal

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ISBN 978-1-4461-5218-8
ISBN 978-1-326-95920-3

About this book: This book tells the extraordinary story of how in the mid twentieth century, in a well-developed European country, a mathematically solid system of geometry was altered to such an extent that more than one million students were taught foundationally flawed geometry over more than a quarter of a century. The almost unbelievable situation came about in Ireland in the wake of early postcolonial developments that gave rise to an impressionable and unqualified civil service in a position of power over a nation’s educational development. This is a multifaceted tale of a perfect storm within mathematics development in Ireland whose result was so destructive that its ramifications continue to be felt into the twenty-first century, forty years after a report of a Royal Irish Academy commission of professors of mathematics described the matter as a national scandal.

Susan Mac Donald was born in Dublin. She holds degrees in mathematics, music, philosophy and

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When a² + b² ≠ c² --- Irish Mail on Sunday.

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