The Intersection of History and Mathematics / edited by Ch. Sasaki, M. Sugiura, J.W. Dauben.

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Main Author: Sasaki, Ch
Other Authors: Sugiura, M., Dauben, J. W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 1994.
Series:Science networks historical studies ; 15.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mathematics: An Historian's Perspective
  • Une Méthode de Restitution
  • quelques examples dans le cas de Pascal
  • The Birth of Maxwell's Electro-Magnetic Field Equations
  • Complex Curves
  • Origins and Intrinsic Geometry
  • From Gauß to Weierstraß: Determinant Theory and Its Historical Evaluation
  • The Reciprocity Law from Euler to Eisenstein
  • Three Aspects of the Theory of Complex Multiplication
  • The Establishment of the Takagi-Artin Class Field Theory
  • Where Did Twentieth-Century Mathematics Go Wrong?
  • Indian Mathematics in Arabic
  • The Tetsujutsu Sankei (1722), an 18th Century Treatise on the Methods of Investigation in Mathematics
  • The Adoption of Western Mathematics in Meiji Japan, 1853-1903
  • The Philosophical Views of Klein and Hilbert
  • Hermann Weyl's Contribution to Geometry in the Years 1918 to 1923
  • The Origins of Infinite Dimensional Unitary Representations of Lie Groups
  • Dispelling a Myth: Questions and Answers about Bourbaki's Early Works, 1934-1944
  • Questions in the Historiography of Modern Mathematics: Documentation and the Use of Primary Sources [Abstract]
  • List of Invited Speakers at the Tokyo History of Mathematics Symposium 1990
  • List of Speakers and Titles of Their Lectures at Session B (Short Communications)