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Mathematics and the Historian's Craft: The Kenneth O. May Lectures / Edition 1
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Mathematics and the Historian's Craft: The Kenneth O. May Lectures / Edition 1
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Mathematics and the Historian's Craft: The Kenneth O. May Lectures / Edition 1
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This volume includes the following contributions:
* Ivor Grattan-Guinness, History or Heritage? An Important Distinction in
Mathematics and for Mathematics Education
* Alexander Jones, Ptolemy's Mathematical Models and their Meaning
* Jim Bennett, Mathematics, Instruments and Navigation, 1600-1800
* Judith Grabiner, Was Newton's Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence
of MacLaurin's Treatise of Fluxions
* Rüdiger Thiele, The Mathematics and Science of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)
* Thomas Archibald and Louis Charbonneau, Mathematics in Canada before 1945: A
Preliminary Survey
* Karen Parshall, The Emergence of the AmericanMathematical Research Community
* Volker Peckhaus, 19th-Century Logic Between Philosophy and Mathematics
* Joseph Dauben, The Battle for Cantorian Set Theory
* Rüdiger Thiele, Hilbert and His Twenty-Four Problems
* Stuart Shanker, Turing and the Origins of AI
* Anne Hibner Koblitz, Mathematics and Gender: Some Cross-Cultural Observations