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Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics The CSHPM 2014 Annual Meeting in St. Catharines, Ontario /

This volume contains thirteen papers that were presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, held on the campus of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Zack, Maria (Editor ), Landry, Elaine (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Colección:Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/ Société canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Falconer's Cryptology
  • Is Mathematics to Be Useful? The Case of de la Hire, Fontenelle, and the Epicycloid
  • The Rise of "the Mathematicals": Placing Maths into the Hands of Practitioners-The Invention and Popularization of Sectors and Scales
  • Early Modern Computation on Sectors
  • The Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Concept of Mixed-Strategy Equilibrium in Game Theory
  • Reassembling Humpty Dumpty: Putting George Washington's Cyphering Manuscript Back Together Again
  • Natures of Curved Lines in the Early Modern Period and the Emergence of the Transcendental
  • Origins of the Venn Diagram
  • Mathematics for the World: Publishing Mathematics and the International Book Trade, Macmillan and Co.
  • The Influence of Arthur Cayley and Alfred Kempe on Charles Peirce's Diagrammatic Logic
  • Émile Borel et Henri Lebesgue: HPM
  • The Judicial Analogy for Mathematical Publication
  • History and Philosophy of Mathematics at the 1924 International Mathematical Congress in Toronto.