Landry, Elaine
Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics
1. The Latin Translation of Euclid’s
Gregg Young
2. The Arc Rampant in 1673: Abraham Bosse, François Blondel, Philippe de la Hire, and conic sections
Christopher Baltus
3. The Need for a Revision of the Prehistory of Arithmetic and its Relevance to School Mathematics
Patricia Baggett, Andrzej Ehrenfeucht
4. Bolzano’s measurable numbers: are they real?
Steve Russ, Kateřina Trlifajová
5. Finding the roots of a non-linear equation: history and reliability
Roger Godard
6. Remarkable Similarities: A dialogue between Boole and De Morgan
Gavin Hitchcock
7. Clifford and Sylvester on the Development of Peirce’s Matrix Formulation of the Algebra of Relations, 1870–1882
Francine F. Abeles
8. The Correspondence of William Burnside
Howard Emmens
9. Historical evidence of the close friendship between Yoshikatsu Sugiura and Paul Dirac
Michiyo Nakane
10. Grattan-Guinness’s work on classical mechanics
Roger Cooke
11. Humanistic Reflections on Hundredth Powers-A Case Study
Joel Haack, Timothy Hall
12. The Quest for Digital Preservation: Will a portion of mathematics history be lost forever?
Steve DiDomenico, Linda Newman
13. Mathematical Communities as a Topic and a Method
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings
14.
Karen Hunger Parshall
15. Charter Members of the MAA and the Material Culture of American Mathematics
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
16. An American Postulate Theorist: Edward V. Huntington
Janet Heine Barnett
17. The establishment and growth of Math Circles in America
Brandy Wiegers, Diana White
Keywords: Mathematics, History of Mathematical Sciences, Philosophy of Science
- Editor
- Landry, Elaine
- Zack, Maria
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques
- Page amount
- 14 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319466156
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-43269-4