Book ID: CBB001023435

Mathematics and the Historian's Craft: The Kenneth O. May Lectures (2005)

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Brummelen, Glen Van (Editor)
Kinyon, Michael (Editor)


Springer-Verlag


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: xvi + 357 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Includes essays on a variety of topics by historians of mathematics. Contributors: Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Alexander Jones, Jim Bennett, Judith V. Grabiner, Thomas Archibald, Louis Charbonneau, Karen Hunger Parshall, Volker Peckhaus, Joseph W. Dauben, Riidiger Thiele, Stuart Shanker, and Ann Hibner Koblitz.


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Authors & Contributors
Ferraro, Giovanni
Jouve, Guillame
Jens Lemanski
Giovanni Capobianco
Enea, Maria Rosaria
Davide Gullotto
Journals
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
Historia Mathematica
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
The Mariner's Mirror
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Publishers
Città del Silenzio
P. Lang
Elsevier
Birkhäuser
Concepts
Mathematics
Calculus
Differential equations
Infinitesimals
Number theory; number concept
Navigation
People
Euler, Leonhard
Lagrange, Joseph Louis
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Laplace, Pierre Simon
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
Renaissance
16th century
Places
Spain
Russia
Germany
Europe
Institutions
St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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