Titlebook: Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics; The CSHPM 2014 Annua Maria Zack,Elaine Landry Conference proceedings 2015 Springer Inter

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Conference proceedings 2015La 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 topi

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,The Rise of “the Mathematicals”: Placing Maths into the Hands of Practitioners—The Invention and Po as a practical and worldly activity. Mathematics was no longer the exclusive realm of scholars, mathematicians, astronomers, and occasional gentlemen. Teachers of mathematics, instrument makers, chart makers, printers, booksellers, and authors of pamphlets, manuals, and books developed new audience

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The Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Concept of Mixed-Strategy Equilibrium in Game Theory,te widespread belief that this concept was developed in the first half of the twentieth century, its origins are in fact to be found in the early eighteenth century. After reconstructing the game analysis of Montmort, Waldegrave, and Bernoulli using modern methods and terminology, I argue that their

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Origins of the Venn Diagram, in logic had existed prior to those of John Venn. The use of diagrams to demonstrate valid logical arguments has been found in the works of a few early Aristotelian scholars and appeared in the works of the famed mathematicians Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Leonhard Euler. In a 1686 fragment (which

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,The Influence of Arthur Cayley and Alfred Kempe on Charles Peirce’s Diagrammatic Logic, diagrammatic logic. Arthur Cayley (1821–1895) and Alfred Bray Kempe (1849–1922) contributed to the logic of relations and its applications to geometry and foundations of geometry. This paper gives an overview of sources related to analytical trees and diagrams which were inspirational for Peirce’s