Book ID: CBB000038368

The history of modern mathematics (1989)

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Rowe, David E. (Editor)
McCleary, John (Editor)


Academic Press


Publication Date: 1989
Edition Details: Volume 1: Ideas and their reception. Volume 2: Institutions and applications. Proceedings of the Symposium on the History of Modern Mathematics, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, June 20-24, 1988
Physical Details: 2 vols.; xvi + 453 pp; xvi + 325 pp.; illus.; notes

Description Papers are entered separately in the present bibliography.


Reviewed By

Review Tait, W.W. (1993) Review of "The history of modern mathematics". Synthese (pp. 293-331). unapi

Review Ewing, J. (1992) Review of "The history of modern mathematics". Historia Mathematica (pp. 93-98). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Archibald, Thomas (1989) Physics as a constraint on mathematical research: The case of potential theory and electrodynamics. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 29). unapi

Chapter Struik, Dirk J. (1989) Schouten, Levi-Civita, and the emergence of tensor calculus. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 99). unapi

Chapter Grattan-Guinness, I. (1989) Modes and manners of applied mathematics: The case of mechanics. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 109). unapi

Chapter Dahan Dalmedico, Amy (1989) La propagation des ondes en eau profonde et ses développements mathématiques: Poisson, Cauchy, 1815-1825. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 129). unapi

Chapter Aspray, William (1989) The transformation of numerical analysis by the computer: An example from the work of John von Neumann. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 307). unapi

Chapter McCleary, John (1989) A theory of reception for the history of mathematics. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 3). unapi

Chapter Purkert, Walter (1989) Cantor's views on the foundations of mathematics. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 49). unapi

Chapter Edwards, Harold M. (1989) Kronecker's views on the foundations of mathematics. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 67). unapi

Chapter Pycior, Helena M. (1989) British synthetic vs. French analytic styles of algebra in the early American Republic. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 125). unapi

Chapter Scholz, Erhard (1989) Crystallographic symmetry concepts and group theory (1850-1880). In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 3). unapi

Chapter Schubring, Gert (1989) Pure and applied mathematics in divergent institutional settings in Germany: The role and impact of Felix Klein. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 171). unapi

Chapter Tobies, Renate (1989) On the contribution of mathematical societies to promoting applications of mathematics in Germany. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 223). unapi

Chapter Knobloch, Eberhard (1989) Mathematics at the Berlin Technische Hochschule/Technische Universität: Social, institutional, and scientific aspects. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 251). unapi

Chapter Owens, Larry (1989) Mathematicians at war: Warren Weaver and the Applied Mathematics Panel, 1942-1945. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 287). unapi

Chapter Moore, Gregory H. (1989) Towards a history of Cantor's Continuum Problem. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 79). unapi

Chapter Parshall, Karen Hunger (1989) Toward a history of 19th-century invariant theory. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 157). unapi

Chapter Chemla, Karine (1989) The background to Gergonne's treatment of duality: Spherical trigonometry in the late 18th century. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 331). unapi

Chapter Cooke, Roger (1989) Abel's Theorem. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 389). unapi

Chapter Frei, Günther (1989) Heinrich Weber and the emergence of class field theory. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 425). unapi

Chapter Lützen, Jesper (1989) The geometrization of analytical mechanics: A pioneering contribution by J. Liouville (ca. 1850). In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 77). unapi

Chapter Nowak, Gregory (1989) Riemann's Habilitationsvortrag and the synthetic a priori status of geometry. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 17). unapi

Chapter Rowe, David E. (1989) The early geometrical works of Sophus Lie and Felix Klein. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 209). unapi

Chapter Hawkins, Thomas (1989) Line geometry, differential equations, and the birth of Lie's theory of groups. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 275). unapi

Chapter Gray, J.J. (1989) Algebraic geometry in the late 19th century. In: The history of modern mathematics (p. 361). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rowe, David E.
Hilbert, David
Demidov, Serghei S.
Folkerts, Menso
Horng, Wann-Sheng
Knobloch, Eberhard
Journals
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Historia Mathematica
Mathematical Intelligencer
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Synthese
Publishers
Birkhäuser
Academic Press
Concepts
Mathematics
History of science, as a discipline
Transmission of ideas
Historiography
Global history
Scientific innovation
People
Hilbert, David
Klein, Felix
Neugebauer, Otto
Wussing, Hans
Dauben, Joseph W.
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Ancient
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