Our Research Journey
“Baroque Journey to the Mathematics at Palafoxiana Library” examines how mathematics were taught, explored, and circulated through the Palafoxiana’s early collections. By tracing textbooks, diagrams, and learning practices embedded in this historic library, the project helps to gain new evidence for curriculum history and offers new perspectives to explain how mathematical literacy was shaped across time and place.
Meet Research Team
Dr. Nathalie Sinclair
Professor, Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University
My research draws on the history and philosophy of mathematics, with a focus on the role of the aesthetic in the development of mathematics as a discipline and in the understandings of both research mathematicians and school learners.
Dr. Mary Elizabeth De Freitas
Professor, The School of Education
Adelphi University
My research involves historical, philosophical, and anthropological studies of mathematical activity, be it expert, novice, maverick, or more-than-human. I also work in cultural studies, and investigate urban spatial practices, learning environments, and digital life.
Dr. Carlos Hugo Zayas
Posdoctorante
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Carlos Hugo Zayas González holds a PhD in History from Central Michigan University (CMU – August 2018). He earned his Master’s degree in History (October 2012) from the Alfonso Vélez Pliego Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities at BUAP, and a Bachelor’s degree in History from the School of History within the same university’s Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.
He is currently a SECIHTI Postdoctoral Fellow (2023–2026) in the Graduate Program in Language Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities (ICSyH). There, he collaborates with Academic Group 254: “Racism, Identities, and Modes of Subjectivation” (ICSyH/BUAP).
Dr. Zayas’s research focuses on the Society of Jesus in Colonial Mexico, branching into two primary areas: Jesuit interactions with indigenous peoples for the project “Language and Evangelization: Discourses on the Other in Texts from the Jesuit Mexican Province, 17th and 18th Centuries” and the relationship between Jesuit scientific training and its influence on the production of New Spanish biographical texts. In both areas of study, New Spanish books and libraries play a central role.
Dr. Armando Solares Rojas
Principal Investigator of the Community, Science, and Education Network
Mathematics Education Department, Cinvestav (México)
Tel: (52) + (55) 57.47.38.00 extensión 6032
asolares@cinvestav.mx
http://www.matedu.cinvestav.mx/asolares/presentacion.php
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Armando-Solares-2
https://red-comunidadcienciaeducacion.org
Dr. Solares-Rojas is a Full Researcher in the Department of Mathematics Education at Cinvestav in Mexico. His current research focuses on two main areas. First, he explores mathematical modelling processes related to scientific and social phenomena from a critical perspective. Second, he examines mathematical knowledge within the context of cultural diversity, both in and out of school, using historical-cultural and semiotic approaches.
He has contributed to the development of the official national curriculum and textbooks in Mexico. Additionally, he has directed and participated in numerous national and international research projects. He is a member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico and is involved in several research networks, including the Mexican Council for Educational Research and the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.
Currently, he coordinates the Community, Science, and Education Network, which collaborates with communities facing severe socio-environmental crises, particularly in Latin America. For more information, visit: https://red-comunidad-ciencia-educacion.org/
Alan Pasos
Phd Student, Simon Fraser University
Teaching mathematics is, for me, an invitation to help all students see mathematics as a meaningful, human activity rather than a collection of procedures. Furthermore, it is my belief that mathematics needs to be promoted not only within the classroom but in its historical context as well, being part of this project has given me the opportunity to collaborate with amazing researchers, and to put mathematics, and teaching mathematics into its historical context in my beloved México.
