Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics

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Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics The CSHPM 2015 Annual Meeting in Washington, D. C. / edited by Maria Zack, Elaine Landry. -
XIV, 248 p. 69 illus. online resource. - (Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/ Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques, ) Content notes : 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. 9783319466156 * Science - Philosophy. History of Mathematical Sciences. Philosophy of Science. * Zack, Maria., edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtLandry, Elaine., edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt * Title * Series