Helena Durnová

Helena Durnová teaches history of mathematics and computing as well as a course on history of science and technology at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia. She has written on history of computing in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s, including early programming practices there. She is interested in the intimate connections at the intersection of computing, mathematics, and language. She is also working on history of mathematics education in Czechoslovakia and together with Petra Antošová, Danny Beckers, Snezana Lawrence, is preparing the book A History of Mathematics Education in Czechoslovakia. Ideologies and Practices. to be published in the Springer series History of Mathematics Education.