书目名称 | Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics |
副标题 | The CSHPM 2014 Annua |
编辑 | Maria Zack,Elaine Landry |
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概述 | Contains rigorously reviewed scholarly works on the history and philosophy of mathematics from a variety of time periods and cultures.Contributions are written by the leading scholars in the field.Wil |
丛书名称 | Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/‘Société canadienne d’ |
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描述 | This volume contains thirteen papers that were presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, held on the campus of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It contains rigorously reviewed modern scholarship on general topics in the history and philosophy of mathematics, as well as on the meeting’s special topic, Early Scientific Computation. These papers cover subjects such as .•Physical tools used by mathematicians in the seventeenth century .•The first historical appearance of the game-theoretical concept of mixed-strategy equilibrium .•George Washington’s mathematical cyphering books .•The development of the Venn diagram .•The role of Euler and other mathematicians in the development of algebraic analysis .•Arthur Cayley and Alfred Kempe’s influence on Charles Peirce‘s diagrammatic logic .•The influence publishers had on the development of mathematical pedagogy in the nineteenth century .•A description of the 1924 International Mathematical Congress held in Toronto, told in the form of a “narrated slide show” Written by leading scholars in th |
出版日期 | Conference proceedings 2015 |
关键词 | Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics; Cryptology; Early scientific computation; H |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22258-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-27715-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-22258-5Series ISSN 2366-3308 Series E-ISSN 2366-3316 |
issn_series | 2366-3308 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 |