Research in history and philosophy of mathematics : The CSHPM 2015 Annual Meeting in Washington, D. C. / edited by Maria Zack, Elaine Landry.
"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 mo...
Saved in:
| Corporate Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cham, Switzerland :
Birkhäuser,
2016.
|
| Series: | Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
Table of Contents:
- The Latin Translation of Euclid’s Elements attributed to Adelard of Bath: Relation to the Arabic transmission of al-Ḥajjāj / Gregg De Young
- The Arc Rampant in 1673: Abraham Bosse, François Blondel, Philippe de la Hire, and conic sections / Christopher Baltus
- The Need for a Revision of the Prehistory of Arithmetic and its Relevance to School Mathematics / Patricia Baggett, Andrzej Ehrenfeucht
- Bolzano’s measurable numbers: are they real? / Steve Russ, Kateřina Trlifajová
- Finding the roots of a non-linear equation: history and reliability / Roger Godard
- Remarkable Similarities: A dialogue between Boole and De Morgan / Gavin Hitchcock
- Clifford and Sylvester on the Development of Peirce’s Matrix Formulation of the Algebra of Relations, 1870–1882 / Francine F. Abeles
- The Correspondence of William Burnside / Howard Emmens
- Historical evidence of the close friendship between Yoshikatsu Sugiura and Paul Dirac / Michiyo Nakane
- Grattan-Guinness’s work on classical mechanics / Roger Cooke
- Humanistic Reflections on Hundredth Powers-A Case Study / Joel Haack, Timothy Hall
- The Quest for Digital Preservation: Will a portion of mathematics history be lost forever? / Steve DiDomenico, Linda Newman
- Mathematical Communities as a Topic and a Method / Amy Ackerberg-Hastings
- The American Mathematical Monthly (1894-1919): A New Journal in the Service of Mathematics and Its Educators / Karen Hunger Parshall
- Charter Members of the MAA and the Material Culture of American Mathematics / Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
- An American Postulate Theorist: Edward V. Huntington / Janet Heine Barnett
- The establishment and growth of Math Circles in America / Brandy Wiegers, Diana White.