Mathematics and the Historian’s Craft The Kenneth O. May Lectures
Kenneth Ownsworth May (1915-1977) was a brilliant and influential mathematician, historian, and educator who founded the journal Historia Mathematica as well as the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics. He viewed the practice of the history of mathematics as a unique meldin...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York
2005.
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| Colección: | CMS Books in Mathematics.
Springer eBooks. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b32735534*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Birth and Growth of a Community
- History or Heritage? An Important Distinction in Mathematics and for Mathematics Education
- Ptolemy’s Mathematical Models and their Meaning
- Mathematics, Instruments and Navigation, 1600–1800
- Was Newton’s Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin’s Treatise of Fluxions
- The Mathematics and Science of Leonhard Euler (1707–1783)
- Mathematics in Canada before 1945: A Preliminary Survey
- The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community
- 19th Century Logic Between Philosophy and Mathematics
- The Battle for Cantorian Set Theory
- Hilbert and his Twenty-Four Problems
- Turing and the Origins of AI
- Mathematics and Gender: Some Cross-Cultural Observations.
