Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries
This book addresses the historiography of mathematics as it was practiced during the 19th and 20th centuries by paying special attention to the cultural contexts in which the history of mathematics was written. In the 19th century, the history of mathematics was recorded by a diverse range of people...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
| Series: | Trends in the History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introductory remarks
- The History of Mathematics in the Progress of Mankind. Modifying the Narrative around 1800
- Practicing History of Mathematics in Islamicate Societies in the 19th-century Germany and France
- Mesopotamian Mathematics, seen "from the inside" (by Assyriologists) and "from the outside" (by Historians of Mathematics)
- Appropriating Role Models for the Mathematical Profession: Biographies in the American Mathematical Monthly around 1900
- Greek Mathematics in English: The Work of Sir Thomas L. Heath (1861{1940)
- Otto Neugebauer's Vision for Rewriting the History of Ancient Mathematics
- The `Mathematization of Nature': The Making of a Concept, and How It Has Fared In Later Years
- Histories of Modern Mathematics in English in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s
- Polycephalic Euclid? Collective Practices in Bourbaki's History of Mathematics
- Pulling Harriot out of Newton's shadow: How the Norwegian Outsider Johannes Lohne Came to Contribute to Mainstream History of Mathematics
- Contextualizing Unguru's 1975 Attack on the Historiography of Ancient Greek Mathematics
- Table of graphics
- Name index