Mathematics and the Historian's Craft
The Kenneth O. May Lectures
Kenneth Ownsworth May (1915-1977) was a brilliant and influential mathematician, historian, and educator who founded the journal Historia Mathematica as well as the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics. He viewed the practice of the history of mathematics as a unique melding of the crafts of mathematician and historian. This entails sensitivity to the mathematical content of the subject and to the various contexts in which it can be understood. Mathematical practitioners, for pedagogical reasons or to contextualize their own work, tend to focus on finding the antecedents for current mathematical theories in a search…
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Weitere Autoren: Brummelen, Glen Van (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-387-25284-1
- EAN: 9780387252841
- Produktnummer: 1429876
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 357 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B15.9 cm x D2.3 cm 636 g
- Abbildungen: 91 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen
- Gewicht: 636
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