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Mathematical Perspectives: Essays on Mathematics and its Historical Development is a collection of 13 biographical essays on the historical advances of science. This collection is originally meant to comprise an issue of the journal Historia Mathematica in honor of Professor Kurt R. Biermann's...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Dauben, Joseph W., 1944-, Biermann, Kurt R.
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
French
German
Language Notes:In English, French, or German.
Published: New York : Academic Press, 1981.
Subjects:
Biermann, Kurt R.
Biermann, Kurt-Reinhard, > 1919-
Biermann, Kurt-R., > 1919-2002
Mathematics > History.
Mathématiques > Histoire.
31.01 history of mathematics.
MATHEMATICS > Essays.
MATHEMATICS > Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS > Reference.
Mathematics
Wiskunde.
Geschichte
Electronic books.
Festschriften
History
History (form)
Festschrifts (form)
Festschriften.
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Summary:Mathematical Perspectives: Essays on Mathematics and its Historical Development is a collection of 13 biographical essays on the historical advances of science. This collection is originally meant to comprise an issue of the journal Historia Mathematica in honor of Professor Kurt R. Biermann's 60th birthday. This 12-chapter text includes essays on studies and commentaries on the problem of "figures of equal perimeter by various authors in antiquity, including Zenodorus, Theon, and Pappus. Other essays explore the comparison of the areas of polygons with equal perimeter; the concept of function; history of mathematics; the development of mathematical physics in France; and the history of Logicism and Formalism. The remaining chapters deal with essays on an early version of Gauss' Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, ideal numbers, a mathematical-philosophilica theory of probability, and historical examples of problem of number sequence interpolation.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 272 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780122040504
0122040503
9781483262574
148326257X