A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (2015)
Rowe, David E. (Editor)
Horng, Wann-Sheng (Editor)
Birkhäuser
Physical Details: 428 pp.
Language: English
Joseph W. Dauben, a leading authority on the history of mathematics in Europe, China, and North America, has played a pivotal role in promoting international scholarship over the last forty years. This Festschrift volume, showcasing recent historical research by leading experts on three continents, offers a global perspective on important themes in this field.
...MoreChapter Guo Shirong (郭世榮) (2015) Gu Yingxiang’s Method of Solving Numerical Equations with the Abacus. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 343-359).
Chapter M. K. Siu; K. W. Lih (2015) Transmission of Probability Theory into China at the End of the Nineteenth Century. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 395-416).
Chapter Walter Purkert (2015) On Cantor’s Continuum Problem and Well Ordering: What really happened at the 1904 International Congress of Mathematicians in Heidelberg. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 3-24).
Chapter Craig Fraser (2015) Nonstandard Analysis, Infinitesimals, and the History of Calculus. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 25-49).
Chapter Wann-Sheng Horng (2015) History of Korean Mathematics, 1657-1868: An Overview. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 363-393).
Chapter Niccolò Guicciardini (2015) Proofs and Contexts: the Debate between Bernoulli and Newton on the Mathematics of Central Force Motion. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 67-102).
Chapter Zhigang Ji (2015) Needham’s 19 (j) and Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci: A New Approach to the Communication and Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge from China to the West. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 165-180).
Chapter Tom Archibald (2015) Saturn’s Rings from Laplace to Poincaré. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 103-124).
Chapter Jeremy Gray (2015) Henri Poincaré and Hermann Weyl on the Foundations of Mathematics. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 125-149).
Chapter XU Yibao (2015) Correspondence of 李儼 Li Yan and David Eugene Smith. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 245-273).
Chapter Karen Parshall (2015) “A New Era in the Development of Our Science”: The American Mathematical Research Community, 1920-1950. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 275-308).
Chapter Liu Dun (2015) Some Distinctive Features of Ancient Chinese Mathematics: A Brief Introduction and Comparison with Its Greek Counterpart. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 311-320).
Chapter Wenlin Li (2015) On the Algorithmic Tradition in the History of Mathematics. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 321-341).
Chapter Jean-Claude Martzloff (2015) Yixing (一行) in Paris. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 153-163).
Chapter Ivor Grattan-Guinness (2015) Despite Kempe, the Modest Place of Multisets and Multiclasses in Foundational Theories. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 51-63).
Chapter Elena Ausejo (2015) New Perspectives on Commercial Arithmetic in Renaissance Spain. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 181-207).
Chapter David E. Rowe (2015) Historical Events in the Background of Hilbert’s Seventh Paris Problem. In: A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics: A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph W. Dauben (pp. 211-244).
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