LA ARITHMETICA PRACTICA DEL PADRE PADILLA Y LOS INICIOS DE LA MATEMÁTICA EN CENTRO AMÉRICA EN EL PERÍODO COLONIAL
Bibliographic record
Abstract
En este artículo se presenta un estudio de los métodos “avanzados” de resolución de problemas del segundo libro de matemáticas escrito en Centro América en el período colonial: la Aritmetica practica del Padre Padilla, publicada en 1732 en la ciudad de Antigua Guatemala. El estudio –hecho a partir de la único ejemplar sobrevivente– ofrece, en las primeras secciones, algunos datos biográficos de este matemático centro-americano y describe el contexto social y económico del que emerge la obra. En las siguientes secciones se hace un análisis de los problemas y métodos de resolución que aparecen en la misma. El estudio concluye con algunas conjeturas sobre los libros que –de alguna manera– pudieron haber servido de inspiración al padre Padilla en la elaboración de la Arithmetica practica.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".