Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics [[electronic resource] ] : The CSHPM 2015 Annual Meeting in Washington, D. C. / / edited by Maria Zack, Elaine Landry |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIV, 248 p. 51 illus., 30 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 510.9 |
Collana | Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/ Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
History Philosophy and science History of Mathematical Sciences Philosophy of Science |
ISBN | 3-319-46615-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | De Young, The Latin Translation of Euclid's Elements Attributed to Adelard of Bath: Relation to the Arabic Transmission of al-Ḥajjāj -- Baltus, The Arc Rampant in 1673: Abraham Bosse, Francois Blondel, Philippe de la Hire, and Conic Sections -- Baggett, Ehrenfeucht, The Need for a Revision of the Prehistory of Arithmetic and its Relevance to School Mathematics -- Russ, Trlifajova, Bolzano's Measureable Numbers: Are They Real?- Godard, Finding the Roots of a Non-Linear Equation: History and Reliability -- Hitchcock, Remarkable Similarities: A Dialogue between Boole and De Morgan -- Abeles, Clifford and Sylvester on the Development of Peirce's Matrix Formulation of the Algebra of Relations, 1870-1882 -- Emmens, The Correspondance of William Burnside -- Nakane, Historical Evidence of the Close Friendship between Yoshikatsu Sugiura and Paul Dirac -- Cooke, Grattan-Guinness's Work on Classical Mechanics -- Haack, Hall, Humanistic Reflections on Hundredth Powers - A Case Study -- DiDomenico, Newman, The Quest for Digital Preservation: Will a Portion of Mathematics History be Lost Forever?- Ackerberg-Hastings, Mathematical Communities as a Topic and a Method -- Parshall, The American Mathematical Monthly (1894-1919): A New Journal in the Service of Mathematics and Its Educators -- Kidwell, Charter Members of the MAA and the Material Culture of American Mathematics -- Barnett, An American Postulate Theorist: Edward V. Huntington -- Wiegers, White, The Establishment and Growth of the American Math Circle Movement. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155315803321 |
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Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics [[electronic resource] ] : The CSHPM 2014 Annual Meeting in St. Catharines, Ontario / / edited by Maria Zack, Elaine Landry |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
Disciplina | 510 |
Collana | Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/ Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
History Philosophy and science History of Mathematical Sciences Philosophy of Science |
ISBN | 3-319-22258-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Falconer’s Cryptology -- Is Mathematics to Be Useful? The Case of de la Hire, Fontenelle, and the Epicycloid -- The Rise of “the Mathematicals”: Placing Maths into the Hands of Practitioners—The Invention and Popularization of Sectors and Scales -- Early Modern Computation on Sectors -- The Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Concept of Mixed-Strategy Equilibrium in Game Theory -- Reassembling Humpty Dumpty: Putting George Washington’s Cyphering Manuscript Back Together Again -- Natures of Curved Lines in the Early Modern Period and the Emergence of the Transcendental -- Origins of the Venn Diagram -- Mathematics for the World: Publishing Mathematics and the International Book Trade, Macmillan and Co. -- The Influence of Arthur Cayley and Alfred Kempe on Charles Peirce’s Diagrammatic Logic -- Émile Borel et Henri Lebesgue: HPM -- The Judicial Analogy for Mathematical Publication -- History and Philosophy of Mathematics at the 1924 International Mathematical Congress in Toronto. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300254503321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2015 | ||
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