Research in history and philosophy of mathematics : the CSHPM 2015 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. /: the CSHPM 2015 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Maria Zack, Elaine Landry.
• Editors: Zack, Maria; Lan, Elaine
• Other Names: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics., Annual Meeting, (2015) (Washington, D.C.)
• Contents: De Young, The Latin Translation of Euclid's Elements Attributed to Adelard of Bath: Relation to the Arabic Transmission of al-Ḥajjāj -- Baltus, The Arc Rampant in 1673: Abraham Bosse, Francois Blondel, Philippe de la Hire, and Conic Sections -- Baggett, Ehrenfeucht, The Need for a Revision of the Prehistory of Arithmetic and its Relevance to School Mathematics -- Russ, Trlifajova, Bolzano's Measureable Numbers: Are They Real?- Godard, Finding the Roots of a Non-Linear Equation: History and Reliability -- Hitchcock, Remarkable Similarities: A Dialogue between Boole and De Morgan -- Abeles, Clifford and Sylvester on the Development of Peirce's Matrix Formulation of the Algebra of Relations, 1870-1882 -- Emmens, The Correspondance of William Burnside -- Nakane, Historical Evidence of the Close Friendship between Yoshikatsu Sugiura and Paul Dirac -- Cooke, Grattan-Guinness's Work on Classical Mechanics -- Haack, Hall, Humanistic Reflections on Hundredth Powers -- A Case Study -- DiDomenico, Newman, The Quest for Digital Preservation: Will a Portion of Mathematics History be Lost Forever?- Ackerberg-Hastings, Mathematical Communities as a Topic and a Method -- Parshall, The American Mathematical Monthly (1894-1919): A New Journal in the Service of Mathematics and Its Educators -- Kidwell, Charter Members of the MAA and the Material Culture of American Mathematics -- Barnett, An American Postulate Theorist: Edward V. Huntington -- Wiegers, White, The Establishment and Growth of the American Math Circle Movement.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Birkhäuser
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 510.9; Mathematics -- History -- Congresses; Mathematics -- Philosophy -- Congresses; MATHEMATICS -- Essays; MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus; MATHEMATICS -- Reference; Mathematics; Mathematics -- Philosophy; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319466156; 3319466151
• Related ISBNs: 9783319432694; 3319432699
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 22, 2016).
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