Mathematics and the historian's craft : the Kenneth O. May lectures /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kinyon, Michael, Van Brummelen, Glen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, [2005]
Series:CMS books in mathematics ; 21.
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Table of Contents:
  • History or heritage? an important distinction in mathematics and for mathematics education / Ivor Grattan-Guinness
  • Ptolemy's mathematical models and their meaning / Alexander Jones
  • Mathematics, instruments and navigation, 1600-1800 / Jim Bennett
  • Was Newton's calculus a dead end? the continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions / Judith V. Grabiner
  • The mathematics and science of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) / Rudiger Thiele
  • Mathematics in Canada before 1945: a preliminary survey / Thomas Archibald and Louis Charbonneau
  • The emergence of the American mathematical research community / Karen Hunger Parshall
  • 19th century logic between philosophy and mathematics / Volker Peckhaus
  • The battle for cantorian set theory / Joseph W. Dauben
  • Hilbert and his twenty-four problems / Rudiger Thiele
  • Turing and the origins of AI / Stuart Shanker
  • Mathematics and gender: some cross-cultural observations / Ann Hibner Koblitz.