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Springer Mathematics And The HistorianS Craft The Kenneth O. May Lectures 2005 Edition by Michael Kinyon Glen van Brummelen
The Kenneth May Lectures have never before been published in book form Important contributions to the history of mathematics by well-known historians of scienceShould appeal to a wide audience due to its subject area and accessibility Table of contents : Preface.- Introduction: The Birth and Growth of a Community by Amy Shell-Gellasch.- History or Heritage? An Important Distinction in Mathematics and for Mathematics Education by Ivor Grattan-Guinness.- Ptolemy's Mathematical Models and their Meaning by Alexander Jones.- Mathematics Instruments and Navigation 1600-1800 by Jim Bennett.- Was Newton's Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin's Treatise of Fluxions byJudith V. Grabiner.- The Mathematics and Science of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) by Ruediger Thiele.- Mathematics in Canada before 1945: A Preliminary Survey by Thomas Archibald and Louis Charbonneau.- The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community by Karen Hunger Parshall.- 19th Century Logic Between Philosophy and Mathematics by Volker Peckhaus.- The Battle for Cantorian Set Theory by Joseph W. Dauben.- Hilbert and his Twenty-Four Problems by Ruediger Thiele.- Turing and the Origins of AI by Stuart Shanker.- Mathematics and Gender: Some Cross-Cultural Observations by Ann Hibner Koblitz.