Overview
- The first major study of the 20th century's most influential historian of science and his impact.
- New perspectives on the mathematical community in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Explores how our understanding of ancient mathematics and astronomy has evolved since the late 19th century.
Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 45)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book explores facets of Otto Neugebauer's career, his impact on the history and practice of mathematics, and the ways in which his legacy has been preserved or transformed in recent decades, looking ahead to the directions in which the study of the history of science will head in the twenty-first century. Neugebauer, more than any other scholar of recent times, shaped the way we perceive premodern science. Through his scholarship and influence on students and collaborators, he inculcated both an approach to historical research on ancient and medieval mathematics and astronomy through precise mathematical and philological study of texts, and a vision of these sciences as systems of knowledge and method that spread outward from the ancient Near Eastern civilizations, crossing cultural boundaries and circulating over a tremendous geographical expanse of the Old World from the Atlantic to India.
Reviews
“The editors Alexander Jones, Christine Proust, and John Steele are to be congratulated … on a volume filled with new and incisive observations on the twentieth century’s central figure in the history of ancient mathematical and mathematical astronomical science. Each paper serves to illustrate a facet of the transformative effect on the study of ancient science of Neugebauer’s research. A Mathematician’s Journeys is a must read for anyone interested in the historiography of ancient science since the late nineteenth century.” (Francesca Rochberg, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 48 (3), 2017)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Mathematician's Journeys
Book Subtitle: Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science
Editors: Alexander Jones, Christine Proust, John M. Steele
Series Title: Archimedes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25865-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25863-8Published: 11 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79853-0Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25865-2Published: 03 February 2016
Series ISSN: 1385-0180
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 342
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations
Topics: History, general, History of Mathematical Sciences, History of Science, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics