Mathematics and the historian's craft : the Kenneth O. May lectures /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Springer,
[2005]
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| Series: | CMS books in mathematics ;
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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.