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Mathematics and the Historian's Craft "The Kenneth O. May Lectures"

Mathematics and the Historian's Craft "The Kenneth O. May Lectures"

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  • ISBN:9780387252841
  • Editorial: Springer Verlag
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  • Nº Pág.:376
  • Idiomas:Ingles,Inglés

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The Kenneth May Lectures have never before been published in book form Important contributions to the history of mathematics by well-known historians of science Should appeal to a wide audience due to its subject area and accessibility

Introduction : the birth and growth of a community by Amy Shell-Gellasch 3
1 History or heritage? : an important distinction in mathematics and for mathematics education by Ivor Crattan-Guinness 7
2 Ptolemy's mathematical models and their meaning by Alexander Jones 23
3 Mathematics, instruments and navigation, 1600-1800 by Jim Bennett 43
4 Was Newton's calculus a dead end? : the continental influence of Maclaurin's Treatise of Fluxions by Judith V. Grabiner 57
5 The mathematics and science of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) by Rudiger Thiele 81
6 Mathematics in Canada before 1945 : a preliminary survey by Thomas Archibald and Louis Charbonneau 141
7 The emergence of the American mathematical research community by Karen Hunger Parshall 183
8 19th century logic between philosophy and mathematics by Volker Peckhaus 203
9 The battle for Cantorian set theory by Joseph W. Dauben 221
10 Hilbert and his twenty-four problems by Rudiger Thiele 243
11 Turing and the origins of AI by Stuart Shanker 297
12 Mathematics and gender : some cross-cultural observations by Ann Hibner Koblitz

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