Trends and approaches in the History of Mathematics: a panorama of the National Seminars on the History of Mathematics

Abstract

This article aims to identify the trends and approaches present in the communications published in the Proceedings of the National Seminars on the History of Mathematics (SNHM), covering the period from 1997 to 2021. The research adopted is of qualitative, bibliographical, and exploratory nature, and is characterized as a state-of-the-art. The methodology used was based on the movement of Content Analysis, from the perspective of Bardin (1977), aligned with the research currents in the History of Mathematics outlined by Mendes (2014) and Pires and Mendes (2020), resulting in the identification of 17 Categories of Analysis. In this context, it is worth noting that the intrinsic relationship between the epistemological and mathematical education dimensions, mediated by the History of Mathematics and inspired by mathematical manifestations over time, leads to a development of the process of thinking mathematically, not only from the point of view of historical reconstruction, but also in the ability to critically evaluate the scientific knowledge produced.