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For Dirk Struik

Scientific, Historical and Political Essays in Honor of Dirk J. Struik

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  • © 1974

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  1. Robert S. Cohen

    1. Center for the Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, USA

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  2. John J. Stachel

    1. Center for the Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, USA

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  3. Marx W. Wartofsky

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 15)

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Table of contents (49 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXVII
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  2. Mathematics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Lemniscate of Bernoulli

      • H. J. M. Bos
      Pages 3-14

    3. Summation of Series of Fractions Depending Upon the Roots of the Airy Function

      • J. M. Burgers
      Pages 15-19

    4. Wave Propagation in Non-Viscous Fluids

      • N. Coburn
      Pages 21-24

    5. Polyhedral Numbers

      • H. S. M. Coxeter
      Pages 25-35

    6. Materialist Mathematics

      • Chandler Davis
      Pages 37-66

    7. Skew Curves Setting Up a Null System in Space

      • Howard Eves
      Pages 67-74

    8. Über Ein Beispiel zur Unbestimmten Analytik und Seine Allgemeine Bedeutung

      • J. E. Hofmann
      Pages 75-89

    9. Remarks on Two-By-Two Matric Semigroups

      • Thomas Mulcrone
      Pages 91-99

    10. A Unified Approach to Hypernumbers

      • Domina Eberle Spencer, Parry Moon
      Pages 101-119

    11. Some Remarks on the Concept of Limit

      • Ruth Rebekka Struik
      Pages 121-129

    12. La Notion de Fonction Chez Condorcet

      • A. P. Youschkevitch
      Pages 131-139

  3. History of Mathematics and Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. The Modern Use of Historical Chinese Solar Observations

      • J. Roger Bray
      Pages 143-146

    3. The Second Part of Chapter 5 of the De Arte Mensurandi by Johannes De Muris

      • H. L. L. Busard
      Pages 147-167

    4. Isaac Newton, The Calculus of Variations, and the Design of Ships

      • I. Bernard Cohen
      Pages 169-187

    5. The Impact of Von Staudt’s Foundations of Geometry

      • Hans Freudenthal
      Pages 189-200

    6. Georg Samuel Dörffel

      • C. Doris Hellman
      Pages 201-203

    7. Observational, Rational and Scientific Medicine in Mexico

      • J. J. Izquierdo
      Pages 205-211
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About this book

It is fitting that Professor Dirk Jan Struik be greeted with this melange of mathematical, scientific, historical, sociological and political essays. The authors are also appropriately varied: different countries, outlooks, religions, generations, and we suppose - of course we did not as- different politics too. Many more would have joined us, we know, but the good friends in this book make a fine and representative assembly of the intersection of two (mathematical!) classes: affectionately respect­ ful admirers of Dirk Struik, and the best thinkers of this troubled century. Struik has been among the most steadfast supporters of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, that discussion group which we have been holding at Boston University since 1960, but his luminous collaboration has been welcome, in Boston and Cambridge, for nearly five decades among mathematicians, physicists, philosophical and political thinkers, and especially among the students. It has not mattered whether they have been his own students or not, whether at M.LT. or elsewhere, whether scholars or dropouts, nature-lovers or book worms, anarchists or Republicans, Catholics or Unitarians, Communists or communists, prim or liberated. No doubt he has his preferences! But the main thing for Struik has been to educate and respect the other person.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for the Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, USA

    Robert S. Cohen, John J. Stachel, Marx W. Wartofsky

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: For Dirk Struik

  • Book Subtitle: Scientific, Historical and Political Essays in Honor of Dirk J. Struik

  • Editors: Robert S. Cohen, John J. Stachel, Marx W. Wartofsky

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2115-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1974

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0393-4Published: 31 October 1974

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0379-8Published: 31 October 1974

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2115-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 657

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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