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Remarks on the Historiography of Mathematics

Aestimatio, 2021
: In this paper, I examine aspects of the methodological debate that originated in 2010, when the distinguished historian of mathematics Sabetai Unguru reviewed Roshdi Rashed’s edition of the Arabic translation of Apollonius’ Conics.
Aldo Brigaglia
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A Burgessian critique of nominalistic tendencies in contemporary mathematics and its historiography [PDF]

Foundations of Science, 2012
We analyze the developments in mathematical rigor from the viewpoint of a Burgessian critique of nominalistic reconstructions. We apply such a critique to the reconstruction of infinitesimal analysis accomplished through the efforts of Cantor, Dedekind ...
A. Alexander, A. H. Lightstone, A. Heyting, A. k. Weil, A. Robinson, A. Sfard, A.L. Cauchy, B.L. Waerden van der, Bruce Pourciau, Bruce Pourciau, C. Boyer, C. Jensen, D. Bridges, D. Fearnley-Sander, D. H. Fowler, D. Laugwitz, D. Laugwitz, D. Laugwitz, D. Sepkoski, D. Sherry, D. Sherry, D. Tall, D. Tall, E. B. Davies, E. Bishop, E. Cousquer, E. Hewitt, E. Nelson, F. Richman, F. Smithies, G. Hellman, G. Hellman, G. Kreisel, G. M. Reyes, H. Billinge, H. Billinge, H. Breger, H. Freudenthal, H. Freudenthal, H. Meschkowski, H. Sinaceur, I. Barrow, J. Avigad, J. Bell, J. Burgess, J. Burgess, J. Burgess, J. Grabiner, J. Grabiner, J. Pierpont, J. Stillwell, K. Bråting, K. Katz, K. Rappaport, Karin Usadi Katz, L. A. Sad, L. Arkeryd, L. Arkeryd, L. Magnani, M. Dummett, M. Dummett, M. Mahoney, M. Moore, M. Moore, M. Muntersbjorn, Mikhail G. Katz, N. Cutland, P. Davis, P. Ehrlich, P. Giordano, P. Roquette, P.E.B. Jourdain, R. Dossena, R. Ely, R. Goldblatt, S. Gandz, S. Shapiro, S. Shapiro, S. Yablo, W. Ewald, W. Tait, W. Vincenti   +81 more
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[Heinrich Wieleitner (1874-1931) and The Birth of Modern Mathematics-Science Communication and the Historiography of Mathematics in the Weimar Culture]. [PDF]

NTM, 2023
By taking the work and life of the historian of mathematics Heinrich Wieleitner as an example, this study aims to highlight the many interrelations between the historiography of mathematics, mathematics education, and science communication in mathematics.By integrating aspects of the history of media, this case study also explores mathematical public ...
Remenyi MM.
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Max Weber's Verstehen tradition in Taha Hussein's critique of historical methodologywith an emphasis on the introduction to the book Fi al-Adab al-Jahili [PDF]

نقد ادب معاصر عربی, 2022
Introduction: Taha Hussein is an Egyptian literary figure of the twentieth century who has played an effective role in promoting the written culture of the contemporary Arab world by creating numerous works in the field of history and literature.
Abdoallah Hosseini
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John Schuster, Descartes-agonistes: Physico-mathematics, method and corpuscular-mechanism, 1618–1633 [PDF]

, 2013
We report on a 10 ks simultaneous Chandra/HETG-NuSTAR observation of the Bursting Pulsar, GRO J1744-28, during its third detected outburst since discovery and after nearly 18 years of quiescence.
Bhalerao, V., Boggs, S. E., Boirin, L., Chakrabarty, D., Chakrabarty, Deepto, Christensen, F. E., Craig, W. W., Degenaar, N., Fabian, A. C., Finger, M. H., Furst, F., Gandhi, P., Gogus, E., Grefenstette, B. W., Hailey, C. J., Harrison, F. A., Kennea, Jamie A., Kouveliotou, C., Miller, J. M., Pottschmidt, K., Stern, D., Tennant, A., Tomsick, J. A., Younes, G., Zhang, W. W.   +24 more
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Mathematization and Vergessenmachen in the Historiography of Logic [PDF]

History of Humanities, 2020
AbstractIn this essay, I argue that the mathematization of logic toward the end of the nineteenth century led to a clear case of what the sociologist of science Oliver Dimbath has called Vergessenm...
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Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, Country House Science, and Personae for British Women in Science at the turn of the Twentieth Century

European Journal of Life Writing, 2022
Higher education for women in the fields of science and mathematics significantly expanded in the United Kingdom at the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century. A major force in that expansion was Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick (1845–1934),
Donald L. Opitz
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“REPRESSED” TERMS IN TRANSLATION DICTIONARIES OF UKRAINIAN TERMINOLOGICAL SCHOOLS [PDF]

Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2021
This article elucidates a problem of restoring ideologically removed terminological units to modern technical terminology. “Russian-Ukrainian dictionary of scientific terminology. Mathematics. Physics.
Oksana H. Lytvyn
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Cauchy, infinitesimals and ghosts of departed quantifiers [PDF]

, 2017
Procedures relying on infinitesimals in Leibniz, Euler and Cauchy have been interpreted in both a Weierstrassian and Robinson's frameworks. The latter provides closer proxies for the procedures of the classical masters.
Bair, Jacques, Blaszczyk, Piotr, Ely, Robert, Henry, Valerie, Kanovei, Vladimir, Katz, Karin U., Katz, Mikhail G., Kudryk, Taras, Kutateladze, Semen S., McGaffey, Thomas, Mormann, Thomas, Schaps, David M., Sherry, David   +12 more
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Historiography of Mathematics from the Mathematician’s Point of View [PDF]

, 2021
Mathematicians used to be highly invested in the study of the history of their own field, but their voice in historiographical discussions has diminished in influence in the past century. One prominent narrative paints this as a justified fall from grace: mathematicians wedded to present mathematical values looked at the past with prejudiced eyes ...
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