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Dewey Class	510.9 (DDC 22)
Title	Mathematics and the historian's craft ([Ebook]) : the Kenneth O. May Lectures / edited by Glen Brummelen, Michael Kinyon
Added Personal Name	Mathematics, general
Added Personal Name	Brummelen, Glen
Other name(s)	Kinyon, Michael
Publication	New York, NY : Springer , 2005
Physical Details	v.: digital (xvi, 356 pages)
Series	CMS books in mathematics 1613-5237
ISBN	9780387282725
Summary Note	Preface.- Introduction: The Birth and Growth of a Community by Amy Shell-Gellasch.- History or Heritage? An Important Distinction in Mathematics and for Mathematics Education, by Ivor Grattan-Guinness.- Ptolemy's Mathematical Models and their Meaning, by Alexander Jones.- Mathematics, Instruments and Navigation, 1600-1800, by Jim Bennett.- Was Newton's Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin's Treatise of Fluxions, byJudith V. Grabiner.- The Mathematics and Science of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), by Ruediger Thiele.- Mathematics in Canada before 1945: A Preliminary Survey by Thomas Archibald and Louis Charbonneau.- The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community, by Karen Hunger Parshall.- 19th Century Logic Between Philosophy and Mathematics, by Volker Peckhaus.- The Battle for Cantorian Set Theory, by Joseph W. Dauben.- Hilbert and his Twenty-Four Problems, by Ruediger Thiele.- Turing and the Origins of AI, by Stuart Shanker.- Mathematics and Gender: Some Cross-Cultural Observations, by Ann Hibner Koblitz.:
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Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28272-6
Links to Related Works	Subject References: History of mathematics . Mathematics . Mathematics - History . Authors: Brummelen, Glen . Mathematics, general . Corporate Authors: Kinyon, Michael . Series: CMS books in mathematics . Classification: 510.9 (DDC 22) .

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