Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics The CSHPM 2014 Annual Meeting in St. Catharines, Ontario /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Zack, Maria (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Landry, Elaine (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2015.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2015.
• Σειρά: Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; Philosophy and science.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Philosophy of Science.

This volume contains thirteen papers that were presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, held on the campus of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It co...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.