Edited by
Eberhard Knobloch, Technische Universitat Berlin
Menso Folkerts, Universitat Munchen
Joseph Dauben, The City University of New York
Hans Wussing, Sachsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
Description
The contributors and their methods are diverse. Their papers deal with subjects such as anamorphic art, the geometry of Durer, musical
works of Mozart and Beethoven, the history of negative numbers, the development of mathematical notation, and efforts to bring mathematics
to bear on problems in commerce and engineering. All papers have English summaries.
This book provides historians of mathematics or
mathematicians with an interest in history with an overview of the methods, concerns, and results of research in the history of mathematics
as it stands today.
Audience:
Historians of mathematics, mathematicians with an interest in history.
