Book ID: CBB001251196

The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (2012)

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Wardhaugh, Benjamin (Editor)


P. Lang


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: vi + 187 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

The writing of mathematical histories has a long history, one which has seldom received scholarly attention. Mathematical history, and mathematical biography, raise distinctive issues of method and approach to which different periods have responded in different ways. At a time of increasing interest in the history of mathematics, this book attempts to show something of the trajectory that history has taken in the past. It presents seven case studies illustrating the different ways that mathematical histories have been written since the seventeenth century, ranging from the 'historia' of John Wallis to the recent re-presentation of Thomas Harriot's manuscripts online. It considers both the ways that individual reputations and biographies have been shaped differently in different circumstances, and the ways that the discipline of mathematics has itself been variously presented through the writing of its history.

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Review Barany, Michael J. (2013) Review of "The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 344-345). unapi

Review Mann, Tony (2014) Review of "The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries". Intellectual History Review (pp. 265-267). unapi

Review Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich (2014) Review of "The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 295-297). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Beeley, Philip (2012) The Progress of Mathematick Learning: John Wallis as Historian of Mathematics. In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 9). unapi

Chapter Wardhaugh, Benjamin (2012) “It Must Have Commenced with Mankind”: Some Ancient Histories of Arithmetic in Eighteenth-Century Britain. In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 31). unapi

Chapter Higgitt, Rebekah (2012) The “Epitome of Intellectual Sagacity”: Biographical Treatments of Newton as a Mathematician. In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 47). unapi

Chapter Guicciardini, Niccolo (2012) The Quarrel on the Invention of the Calculus in Jean E. Montucla and Joseph Jerome de Lalande, Histoire des Mathematiques (1758,1799--1802). In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 73). unapi

Chapter Rice, Adrian (2012) Vindicating Leibniz in the Calculus Priority Dispute: The Role of Augustus De Morgan. In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 89). unapi

Chapter Sørensen, Henrik Kragh (2012) Reading Mittag-Leffler's Biography of Abel as an Act of Mathematical Self-Fashioning. In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 115). unapi

Chapter Stedall, Jacqueline (2012) Thomas Harriot (1560--1621): History And Historiography. In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 145). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Harry R. Lewis
Raffo Quintana, Federico
Davide Gullotto
Mariano Giaquinta
Charlotte Wahl
Kaplan, Abram
Concepts
Mathematics
Calculus
Controversies and disputes
Geometry
Arithmetic
Algebra
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
Early modern
Places
England
Europe
Great Britain
Oxford (England)
Basel (Switzerland)
London (England)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Oxford University
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