Introduction

Abstract

During the years 1984–1986 four young Chinese graduates of the Guanxi region came to Palermo with a project of international cooperation. Among them was Ou Ye Lin a Chinese mathematician. In that occasion I gave some lessons of mathematics to a Chinese emigrant to Palermo and with the help of the dott. Ou Ye Lin and have analyzed, for the first time, the relationships among history of the mathematics, natural language, and learning of the mathematics in a different cultural situation from that of western (Spagnolo, 1986). My first amazement has allowed then to deepen this matter and to analyze it in the following years as field of research in didactics of the mathematics. Meaningful in this sense the 13° meeting of the I.C.M.E. (International Congress on Mathematics Education) on the comparative study east–west in didactics of the mathematics has been. The majority of the participants was of Oriental origin understood some transplanted that were found in USA by some generations.