Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics : The CSHPM 2015 Annual Meeting in Washington, D. C. / edited by Maria Zack, Elaine Landry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zack, Maria., Editor.

Landry, Elaine., Editor.

Series:

Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/ Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques, 2366-3316

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics.

History.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

History of Mathematical Sciences.

Philosophy of Science.

Local Subjects:

History of Mathematical Sciences.

Philosophy of Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 248 p. 51 illus., 30 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2016.

Summary:

This volume contains seventeen papers that were presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, held in Washington, D.C. In addition to showcasing rigorously reviewed modern scholarship on an interesting variety of general topics in the history and philosophy of mathematics, this meeting also honored the memories of Jacqueline (Jackie) Stedall and Ivor Grattan-Guinness; celebrated the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America; and considered the importance of mathematical communities in a special session. These themes and many others are explored in these collected papers, which cover subjects such as New evidence that the Latin translation of Euclid’s Elements was based on the Arabic version attributed to al-Ḥajjāj Work done on the arc rampant in the seventeenth century The history of numerical methods forfinding roots of nonlinear equations An original play featuring a dialogue between George Boole and Augustus De Morgan that explores the relationship between them Key issues in the digital preservation of mathematical material for future generations A look at the first twenty-five years of The American Mathematical Monthly in the context of the evolving American mathematical community The growth of Math Circles and the unique ways they are being implemented in the United States Written by leading scholars in the field, these papers will be accessible to not only mathematicians and students of the history and philosophy of mathematics, but also anyone with a general interest in mathematics. .

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

ISBN:

3-319-46615-1