Article ID: CBB000774058

Decline, then Recovery: An Overview of Activity in the History of Mathematics during the Twentieth Century (2004)

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The article focuses on the history of mathematics during the twentieth century. The first part of the article is a largely factual summary of activity from 1900 to around the 1990s. The second part reflects upon imbalances in the measures of study of the various branches and aspects of the history of mathematics, changes in interpretations of some topics and developments, causes of the decline, relationships with mathematics education, and attitudes positive and negative to the subject among non-practitioners. Recently, some historians of mathematics became interested in the history of their subject to the extent that they published a large collective book on it in 2002.

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Description On 20th-century work in the discipline of the history of mathematics.


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Authors & Contributors
Raina, Dhruv
Lara Piersanti
Beckers, Danny
Marina Dalé
Silvio Bozzi
Kharlamova, Vera I.
Concepts
Mathematics
History of science, as a discipline
Historiography
Philosophy of science
Philosophy
Logic
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Ancient
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Italy
France
Europe
China
Portugal
England
Institutions
Istanbul Teknik Universitesi
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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