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computer science, mathematics and politics (historiography IV:6)

, 2022
Computer science and technology : historiography IV (6). CS, mathematics and politics.
Camille Akmut
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Contextualizing Unguru’s 1975 Attack on the Historiography of Ancient Greek Mathematics

Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science, 2016
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. In his review, Unguru criticized what Rashed calls “l’usage instrumental d’une autre mathématique pour commenter une ...
Martina R. Schneider
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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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Mathematical Approaches to Modeling Science from an Algorithmic-Historiography Perspective [PDF]

, 2011
This chapter examines the history of mathematical modeling of science. We mainly rely on the method of algorithmic historiography to reconstruct the emergence and diffusion of different model approaches to the science system. This chapter provides a historiographical context of the models that will be explained in detail in some of the subsequent ...
Diana Lucio‐Arias, Andrea Scharnhorst
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Narrative Structures and Methodological Principles in Boyer and Merzbach’s Historiography for Mathematics Education

Jurnal Mercumatika : Jurnal Penelitian Matematika dan Pendidikan Matematika
This study aims to analyze the narrative structure, periodization, and methodological principles in A History of Mathematics by Carl B. Boyer and Uta C. Merzbach (third edition, 2011) as a historiographical model in mathematics education. The research employs a descriptive qualitative approach using the content analysis method.
Kintoko Kintoko, Deny Hadi Siswanto, Nanang Khuzaini   +2 more
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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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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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Ludi Matematici by Leon Battista Alberti

Diségno, 2020
  Along with his humanistic interests, Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was attracted to the world of scientific knowledge both during his youth, while studying physics and mathematics, and when he definitively returned to Rome in 1443 following Pope ...
Ornella Zerlenga
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Which Hermeneutical Method Is Suggested by the New Historiography of Science

Critical Hermeneutics, 2023
Whereas “Science does not think" (Heidegger), the "new historiography of science" - mainly Koyré's and Kuhn's ones - has addressed our minds to think about science in a new way.
Antonino Drago
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