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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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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 ...
Viktor Blåsjö
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A Critique of the Modern Consensus in the Historiography of Mathematics
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 2014 The history of mathematics is nowadays practiced primarily by professional histo-rians rather than mathematicians, as was the norm a few decades ago. There isa strong consensus among these historians that the old-fashioned style of historyis \obsolete," and that \the gains in historical understanding are incomparablygreater" in the more \historically ...
Viktor Blåsjö
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Historiography of Mathematics in the Works of Rodolfo Guimarães
Historia Mathematica, 1997 Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Leistungen des portugiesischen Mathematikhistorikers R. Guimarães, der eine Bibliographie der mathematischen Arbeiten portugiesischen Ursprungs veröffentlichte und sich um die Neuherausgabe der Werke von Pedro Nunes bemühte.
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As the Outsider Walked in the Historiography of Mesopotamian Mathematics Until Neugebauer [PDF]
Archimedes, 2016 Those who nowadays work on the history of advanced-level Babylonian mathematics do so as if everything had begun with the publication of Neugebauer’s Mathematische Keilschrift-Texte from 1935 to 1937 and Thureau-Dangin’s Textes mathematiques babyloniens from 1938, or at most with the articles published by Neugebauer and Thureau-Dangin during the few ...
Jens Høyrup
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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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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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The Discipline of History and the “Modern Consensus in the Historiography of Mathematics”
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 2014 Michael N Fried
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Mathematics in the archives: deconstructive historiography and the shaping of modern geometry (1837–1852) [PDF]
The British Journal for the History of Science, 2021 AbstractThis essay explores the research practice of French geometer Michel Chasles (1793–1880), from his 1837 Aperçu historique up to the preparation of his courses on ‘higher geometry’ between 1846 and 1852. It argues that this scientific pursuit was jointly carried out on a historiographical and a mathematical terrain.
Michel, Nicolas, Smadja, Ivahn
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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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