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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 ...
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Modern Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Military and Political Conflict
Історико-політичні проблеми сучасного світуThe article examines contemporary research projections in the fields of historiography, ethnic political science and applied mathematics with a view to their use in the study of the phenomenon of military and political conflict. This idea is implemented
Ivan Monolatii
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Fermat, Leibniz, Euler, and the gang: The true history of the concepts of limit and shadow [PDF]
, 2014 Fermat, Leibniz, Euler, and Cauchy all used one or another form of approximate equality, or the idea of discarding "negligible" terms, so as to obtain a correct analytic answer.
David Sherry +10 more
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Remembering Courtney Cazden, 1925–2025
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Here we remember and honor Courtney B. Cazden (1925–2025), whose scholarship, mentorship, and moral clarity profoundly shaped the study of language, literacy, and learning. Drawing on our shared experiences as colleagues, collaborators, students, and friends, we reflect on Courtney's enduring contributions to classroom discourse analysis ...
Kris D. Gutiérrez +5 more
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Georges Sorel’s Diremption: Hegel, Marxism and Anti-Dialectics [PDF]
, 2016 Georges Sorel’s use of the term diremption to describe his method has long been found obscure. This paper shows that the term was associated with Hegel, and that interpreting it in this light can help us make sense of Sorel’s method.
Eric Brandom
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From Unremembered to Overremembered. Gender in the Holocaust Museums of Hungary and Slovakia
Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 166-176, April 2026.ABSTRACT In museums, the history of the Holocaust is told through various means of exhibition construction, including architecture/space, texts, artifacts, photographs, and digital technologies. The article focuses on the gendered history of the Holocaust in museums as institutions in Central Europe after the illiberal turn and evaluates how (and if ...
Andrea Petö, Borbála Klacsmann
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The anglocentric tendency in the history of information engineering [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines the anglocentric nature of much writing on the history of technology, taking as an example important research results from the first half of the last century published in German and Russian in the field of information engineering. By ‘
Bissell, Christopher
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Beyond Bandung and Belgrade: Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, A Forgotten Indian Voice for World Peace
Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 119-127, April 2026.ABSTRACT Dr. Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907–1966) was an Indian polymath best known for his intellectual contributions in a dizzyingly wide range of fields: mathematics, statistics, genetics, numismatics, history, and literature. His enduring reputation seems to have been posthumously sealed as the father of Marxist historiography in India. What has
Suchintan Das
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Is There an Ethics for Historians? [PDF]
, 2009 How should historians treat one another? More generally, what are the ethical obligations that go with belonging to the profession of history? And more generally still, in what ways and in what sense is history a profession and how are professional ...
Tapper, Alan
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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 254-273, April 2026.Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
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