Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics The CSHPM 2015 Annual Meeting in Washington, D. C. /

Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics The CSHPM 2015 Annual Meeting in Washington, D. C. /

This volume contains seventeen papers that were presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, held in Washington, D.C. In addition to showcasing rigorously reviewed modern s...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Zack, Maria (Editor), Landry, Elaine (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2016.
Series:Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques,
Subjects:
Mathematics.
Philosophy and science.
History.
History of Mathematical Sciences.
Philosophy of Science.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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