A história da Matemática nos séculos XVII e XVIII: Uma abordagem a partir do conceito de processo civilizador de Norbert Elias

Abstract

Mathematics is one of the basic areas of knowledge for the development of human society and one of its characteristics is its ability to dialogue with several other areas of knowledge. Thus, the main purpose of this work is to relate the history of mathematics to some possible sociological factors involved in the XVII and XVIII centuries based on the concept of the civilizing process of Norbert Elias. For this, as a basis for a bibliographical research pertinent to the theme, we take the study model of the author Norbert Elias, in his work "The Civilizing Process", from the concepts of civilization, figuration and interdependence, to demonstrate the development of the History of Mathematics , Mainly in countries such as Germany, France and England, which were the study scenario to understand what would become civilization, as well as where several important mathematical contributions have been made today, such as those present in Newtonian physics, Algebraic treatment given by Descartes's geometry and Leibniz's formalism applied to the development of calculus. The facts listed in this study brought to the fore some mathematical contributions and their relations with the social contexts of their respective epochs.