Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics: The CSHPM by Maria Zack,Elaine Landry

By Maria Zack,Elaine Landry

This quantity comprises seventeen papers that have been provided on the 2015 Annual assembly of the Canadian Society for background and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, held in Washington, D.C. as well as showcasing carefully reviewed glossy scholarship on an attractive number of basic issues within the heritage and philosophy of arithmetic, this assembly additionally venerated the thoughts of Jacqueline (Jackie) Stedall and Ivor Grattan-Guinness; celebrated the Centennial of the Mathematical organization of the USA; and regarded the significance of mathematical groups in a different consultation. those issues and so forth are explored in those accrued papers, which disguise topics such as
  • New facts that the Latin translation of Euclid’s parts was once in keeping with the Arabic model attributed to al-Ḥajjāj
  • Work performed at the arc rampant within the 17th century 
  • The historical past of numerical tools for locating roots of nonlinear equations
  • An unique play that includes a discussion among George Boole and Augustus De Morgan that explores the connection among them
  • Key matters within the electronic maintenance of mathematical fabric for destiny generations
  • A examine the 1st twenty-five years of The American Mathematical Monthly within the context of the evolving American mathematical community
  • The development of Math Circles and the original methods they're being carried out within the United States
Written through best students within the box, those papers may be obtainable not to simply mathematicians and scholars of the historical past and philosophy of arithmetic, but additionally an individual with a common curiosity in mathematics.

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