Researcher: History of Vernacular Mathematics in

3 weeks ago


Oxford, United Kingdom University of Oxford Full time

**University of Oxford Faculty of Linguistics**

**Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project**
**_Vernacular mathematics in the Italian dialects: a history_**

Grade 7: £34,308- £42,155 per annum

Fixed term for 17 months

The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford is seeking to employ a Research Fellow to work on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project
_Vernacular mathematics in the Italian dialects: a history_, directed by Professor Martin Maiden, with effect from 1st March 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter, for a period of seventeen months until the end of the project. This appointment follows the departure of the current Research Fellow to other employment. Details of the project may be found at

Briefly, the project examines the shaping of the language of vernacular mathematics in Italy between the fourteenth and the sixteenth centuries, exploring how the transfer of knowledge between registers, dialects, languages and cultures came about by linguistic means.

_abbaco_ text
_The Language of Practical Mathematics in Renaissance Italy: A Fifteenth Century Vernacular Didactic Treatise_), already provisionally accepted for publication.



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