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Changing Trends in the Historiography of Mesopotamian Mathematics: An Insider's View
History of Science, 1996L'A. decrit les tendances qui ont caracterise depuis 1930 le developpement de l'historiographie des mathematiques de l'epoque ...
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Afterword (1992): a revolution in the historiography of mathematics?
1992Abstract The revolution has begun! The concluding words in my 1975 paper, which appears as Chapter 1 of this volume, were that whether or not revolutions happen in mathematics, revolutions can ‘occur in mathematical nomenclature, symbolism, metamathematics (e.g. the metaphysics of mathematics), methodology (e.g.
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Traditions and myths in the historiography of Egyptian mathematics
2008Abstract How frequently it happens that books on the history of mathematics copy their assertions uncritically from other books, without consulting the sources! How many fairy tales circulate as ‘universally known truths’. (van der Waerden 1954, 6) 9is statement of van der Waerden’s rather surprised me.
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The historiography and history of mathematics in the Third Reich
2008Abstract After Hitler became chancellor of the German Reich on 30 January 1933 and the Nazi regime consolidated its power in March 1933, serious effects for science and mathematics became visible. Mathematics was, by and large, less important to the regime than biology, chemistry, the technical sciences, or history.
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History or Heritage? A Central Question in the Historiography of Mathematics
2004The growth in interest and work in the history of mathematics in the last three decades or so has led naturally to reactions among mathematicians. Some of them have been welcoming, and indeed have contributed their own historical research; but many others have been cautious, and even contemptuous about the work produced by practising historians for ...
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Filling in the short blanks: musings on bringing the historiography of mathematics to the classroom
BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, 2010Writing a history of early trigonometry brought me to confront in a practical way some difficult historiographic questions. What does it mean to know a theorem? How does one determine what belongs to trigonometry, and doesn't? To what extent can one legitimately talk about knowledge crossing cultural boundaries intact?
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On the Historiography of Mathematics in Italy
2012The historiography of mathematics in Italy has a long tradition dating back to the Renaissance (Bernardino Baldi, 201 biographies in his "Vite de' matematici"). Moreover, Italian scholars contributed to the transmission and history of science with translations, commentaries and editions of ancient classics, and chronologies were included in ...
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2020
The historiography of mathematics of the non-Western world long appeared immune to the influence of cultural studies or of critiques of Orientalism. The turn to “ethno-mathematics” and the interrogation of the historiography of proof as boundary marker (Chemla 2012), the internal challenge to foundationalism, etc., have all played a role in pluralizing
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The historiography of mathematics of the non-Western world long appeared immune to the influence of cultural studies or of critiques of Orientalism. The turn to “ethno-mathematics” and the interrogation of the historiography of proof as boundary marker (Chemla 2012), the internal challenge to foundationalism, etc., have all played a role in pluralizing
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1992
Abstract In a paper published recently in Historia Mathematica, M. J. Crowe tried ‘to stimulate discussion of the historiography of mathematics by asserting ten “laws” concerning change in mathematics’ (Crowe 1975, p. 16). His starting point is the ‘new historiography of science’, whose basic book is T. S.
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Abstract In a paper published recently in Historia Mathematica, M. J. Crowe tried ‘to stimulate discussion of the historiography of mathematics by asserting ten “laws” concerning change in mathematics’ (Crowe 1975, p. 16). His starting point is the ‘new historiography of science’, whose basic book is T. S.
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1994
Documentation and the use of primary sources play an important role in the history of mathematics, since they provide the means for any critical study in the field. As can be seen from numerous examples, historical developments are seldom as straightforward and logical as many theoretically oriented historians and philosophers of science like to ...
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Documentation and the use of primary sources play an important role in the history of mathematics, since they provide the means for any critical study in the field. As can be seen from numerous examples, historical developments are seldom as straightforward and logical as many theoretically oriented historians and philosophers of science like to ...
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