Book ID: CBB000020223

Social history of 19th-century mathematics (1981)

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Mehrtens, Herbert (Editor)
Bos, Henk (Editor)
Schneider, Ivo H. (Editor)


Birkhäuser


Publication Date: 1981
Physical Details: xii + 301 pp.; bibl.

Description Contents: Struik, Dirk J.: Mathematics in the early part of the 19th century. Jahnke, Hans Niels, Otte, Michael: Origins of the program of “arithmetization of mathematics”. Hodgkin, Luke: Mathematics and revolution from Lacroix to Cauchy. Schneider, Ivo: Forms of professional activity in mathematics before the 19th century. Schubring, Gert: The conception of pure mathematics as an instrument in the professionalization of mathematics. Enros, Philip C.: Cambridge University and the adoption of analytics in early 19th-century England. Rogers, Leo: A survey of factors affecting the teaching of mathematics outside the universities in Britain in the 19th century. Bottazzini, Umberto: Mathematics in a unified Italy. Gross, Horst-Eckart: The employment of mathematicians in insurance companies in the 19th century. Bloor, David: Hamilton and Peacock on the essence of algebra. Hawkins, Thomas: The Berlin school of mathematics. Lewis, Albert C.: F. Schleiermacher's influence on H. Grassmann's mathematics. Mehrtens, Herbert: Social history of mathematics.


Includes Chapters

Chapter Bloor, David (1981) Hamilton and Peacock on the essence of algebra. In: Social history of 19th-century mathematics (p. 202). unapi

Chapter Lewis, Albert C. (1981) F. Schleiermacher's influence on H. Grassmann's mathematics. In: Social history of 19th-century mathematics (p. 246). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Lowe, James W. E.
Colwell, Mary
Claborn, John
Thomas Gauchet
Aldo De Togni
Doron, Claude-Olivier
Journals
Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Techniek
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
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Lion Books
Sciences Po
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pennsylvania State University Press
Editorial Universidad Javeriana
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Medicine
Biology
Science and religion
Petri dish
Politics and government
Normality
People
Petri, Richard Julius
Kleist, Ewald Georg von
Felix Voisin
Wilson, Edmund Beecher
Musschenbroek, Pieter van
Murphy, Lois Barclay
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19th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
20th century
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France
United States
Göta Canal (Sweden)
Southern states (U.S.)
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