Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Kragh Sorensen, Henrik; Remmert, Volker R.; Schneider, Martina R.

Birkhauser Verlag AG

06/2018

276

Mole

Inglês

9783319819310

15 a 20 dias

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Introductory remarks.- The History of Mathematics in the Progress of Mankind. Modifying the Narrative around 1800.- Practicing History of Mathematics in Islamicate Societies in the 19th-century Germany and France.- Mesopotamian Mathematics, seen "from the inside" (by Assyriologists) and "from the outside" (by Historians of Mathematics).- Appropriating Role Models for the Mathematical Profession: Biographies in the American Mathematical Monthly around 1900.- Greek Mathematics in English: The Work of Sir Thomas L. Heath (1861{1940).- Otto Neugebauer's Vision for Rewriting the History of Ancient Mathematics.- The Mathematization of Nature': The Making of a Concept, and How It Has Fared In Later Years.- Histories of Modern Mathematics in English in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.- Polycephalic Euclid? Collective Practices in Bourbaki's History of Mathematics.- Pulling Harriot out of Newton's shadow: How the Norwegian Outsider Johannes Lohne Came to Contribute to Mainstream History of Mathematics.- Contextualizing Unguru's 1975 Attack on the Historiography of Ancient Greek Mathematics.- Table of graphics.- Name index.
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