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Images, Ideas, and Communities
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Third Edition
David Rowe, Universitat Mainz
Eberhard Knobloch, Technische Universitat Berlin
Description
This volume contains nine essays dealing with historical issues of mathematics. The topics covered span three different approaches to
the history of mathematics that may be considered both representative and vital tothe field. The first section, Images of Mathematics,
addresses the historiographical and philosophical issues involved in determining the meaning of mathematical history. The second section,
Differential Geometry and Analysis, traces the convoluted development of the ideas of differential geometry and analysis. The third section,
Research Communities and International Collaboration, discusses the structure and interaction of mathematical communities through studies
of the social fabric of the mathematical communities of the U.S. and China.
Audience
Mathematical historians, mathematicians, and scholars interested in the work of Hilbert, Lipschitz, Riemann, and Weierstrass.
Contents
Images of Mathematics: Historiographical and Philosophical Issues: J. Lutzen and W. Purkert, Conflicting Tendencies in the Historiography
of Mathematics: M. Cantor and H.G. Zeuthen.I. Grattan-Guiness, A New Type of Question: On the Prehistory of Linear and Nonlinear Programming,
1770-1940. V. Peckhaus, Hilberts Axiomatic Programme and Philosophy. Differential Geometry and Analysis: R. Tazzioli, Rudolf Lipschitzs
Work onDifferential Geometry and Mechanics. P. Ullrich, The Proof of the Laurent Expansion by Weierstrass. P. Ullrich, The Riemann Removable
Singularity Theorem from 1841 Onwards. Research Communities and International Collaboration: D.D. Fenster and K. Parshall, A Profile
of the American Mathematical Research Community: 1891-1906. D.D. Fenster and K. Parshall, Women in the American Mathematical Research
Community: 1891-1906. D. Zhang and J.W. Dauben, Mathematical Exchanges Between the United States and China: A Concise Overview.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 301 pages, publication date: JUL-1994
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-599663-1
ISBN-10: 0-12-599663-2
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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