Anachronisms in the history of mathematics : essays on the historical interpretation of mathematical texts / edited by Niccolò Guicciardini.
Discover essays by leading scholars on the history of mathematics from ancient to modern times in European and non-European cultures.
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2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The historical interpretation of mathematical texts and the problem of anachronism / Niccolò Guicciardini
- From reading rules to reading algorithms : textual anachronisms in the history of mathematics and their effects on interpretation / Karine Chemla
- Anachronism and anachorism in the study of mathematics in India / Kim Plofker
- On the need to re-examine the relationship between the mathematical sciences and philosophy in Greek antiquity / Jacqueline Feke
- Productive anachronism : on mathematical reconstruction as a historiographical method / Martina R. Schneider
- Anachronism in the Renaissance historiography of mathematics / Robert Goulding
- Deceptive familiarity : differential equations in Leibniz and the Leibnizian school (1689-1736) / Niccolò Guicciardini
- Euler and analysis : case studies and historiographical perspectives / Craig Fraser and Andrew Schroter
- Measuring past geometers : a history of non-metric projective anachronism / Jemma Lorenat
- Anachronism : Bonola and non-Euclidean geometry / Jeremy Gray
- Anachronism and incommensurability : words, concepts, contexts, and intentions / Joseph W. Dauben.