Gert Schubring is a retired member of the research institute Institut für Didaktik der Mathematik (Bielefeld), and at present acting in the Graduate Programme Ensino e História da Matemática (PEMAT) of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). His research interests focus on the history of mathematics and the sciences and their systemic interrelation with social-cultural systems. One of his specialisations is history of mathematics education. For having established this as an international research programme, he was distinguished by receiving the Hans Freudenthal Award by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI), He has published a great number of papers in journals and many books, among which is Conflicts between Generalization, Rigor and Intuition: Number Concepts Underlying the Development of Analysis in 17th–19th century France and Germany (2005). He was Chief-Editor of the International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education, and is co-editor of the series International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching.
