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The Intersection of History and Mathematics

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Ch. Sasaki

    1. Department of History & Philosophy of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153, Japan

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  2. M. Sugiura

    1. Tsuda College, Tokyo 187, Japan

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  3. J. W. Dauben

    1. Program in History, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA

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Part of the book series: Science Networks. Historical Studies (SNHS, volume 15)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Mathematics: an Historian’s Perspective

    • Joseph W. Dauben
    Pages 1-13

  3. Une Méthode de Restitution—quelques exemples dans le cas de Pascal

    • Hara Kokiti
    Pages 15-24

  4. The Birth of Maxwell’s Electro-Magnetic Field Equations

    • W. J. Ellison
    Pages 25-38

  5. Complex Curves — Origins and Intrinsic Geometry

    • J. J. Gray
    Pages 39-50

  6. From Gauß to Weierstraß: Determinant Theory and Its Historical Evaluations

    • Eberhard Knobloch
    Pages 51-66

  7. The Reciprocity Law from Euler to Eisenstein

    • Günther Frei
    Pages 67-90

  8. Three Aspects of the Theory of Complex Multiplication

    • Takase Masahito
    Pages 91-108

  9. The Establishment of the Takagi-Artin Class Field Theory

    • Miyake Katsuya
    Pages 109-128

  10. Where Did Twentieth-Century Mathematics Go Wrong?

    • Chandler Davis
    Pages 129-142

  11. Indian Mathematics in Arabic

    • Roshdi Rashed
    Pages 143-148

  12. The Tetsujutsu Sankei (1722), an 18th Century Treatise on the Methods of Investigation in Mathematics

    • Annick Horiuchi
    Pages 149-164

  13. The Adoption of Western Mathematics in Meiji Japan, 1853–1903

    • Sasaki Chikara
    Pages 165-186

  14. The Philosophical Views of Klein and Hilbert

    • David E. Rowe
    Pages 187-202

  15. Hermann Weyl’s Contribution to Geometry, 1917–1923

    • Erhard Scholz
    Pages 203-230

  16. The Origins of Infinite Dimensional Unitary Representations of Lie Groups

    • Sugiura Mitsuo
    Pages 231-240

  17. Dispelling a Myth: Questions and Answers about Bourbaki’s Early Work, 1934–1944

    • Liliane Beaulieu
    Pages 241-252

  18. Questions in the Historiography of Modern Mathematics: Documentation and the Use of Primary Sources [Abstract]

    • E. Neuenschwander
    Pages 253-254

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 255-262
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History & Philosophy of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153, Japan

    Ch. Sasaki

  • Tsuda College, Tokyo 187, Japan

    M. Sugiura

  • Program in History, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA

    J. W. Dauben

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Intersection of History and Mathematics

  • Editors: Ch. Sasaki, M. Sugiura, J. W. Dauben

  • Series Title: Science Networks. Historical Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7521-9

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Verlag 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-7523-3Published: 29 April 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-7521-9Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1421-6329

  • Series E-ISSN: 2296-6080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 262

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences

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