Brummelen, Glen
Mathematics and the Historian’s Craft
1. Introduction: The Birth and Growth of a Community
Amy Shell-Gellasch
2. History or Heritage? An Important Distinction in Mathematics and for Mathematics Education
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
3. Ptolemy’s Mathematical Models and their Meaning
Alexander Jones
4. Mathematics, Instruments and Navigation, 1600–1800
Jim Bennett
5. Was Newton’s Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin’s
Judith V. Grabiner
6. The Mathematics and Science of Leonhard Euler (1707–1783)
Rüdiger Thiele
7. Mathematics in Canada before 1945: A Preliminary Survey
Thomas Archibald, Louis Charbonneau
8. The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community
Karen Hunger Parshall
9. 19th Century Logic Between Philosophy and Mathematics
Volker Peckhaus
10. The Battle for Cantorian Set Theory
Joseph W. Dauben
11. Hilbert and his Twenty-Four Problems
Rüdiger Thiele
12. Turing and the Origins of AI
Stuart Shanker
13. Mathematics and Gender: Some Cross-Cultural Observations
Ann Hibner Koblitz
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Keywords: MATHEMATICS / General MAT000000
- Author(s)
- Brummelen, Glen
- Kinyon, Michael
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2005
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780387282725