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From Plato to Weil and beyond: Genericity through the history of mathematics

Khronos, 2020
At the end of the 19th century, genericity took an important step toward mathematical analysis, due to the developments promoted by the Italian school of algebraic geometry.
Renato Reis Leme, Giorgio Venturi
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Operator splitting for nonautonomous delay equations [PDF]

, 2012
We provide a general product formula for the solution of nonautonomous abstract delay equations. After having shown the convergence we obtain estimates on the order of convergence for differentiable history functions. Finally, the theoretical results are
Bátkai, András, Csomós, Petra, Farkas, Bálint   +2 more
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Quem somos nós, professores de matemática?

Cadernos Cedes
Ao saber quem são seus avôs, bisavôs e mesmo tataravôs profissionais, o professor de matemática passa a ver o trabalho de seus colegas contemporâneos, e seu próprio fazer docente, de outro modo. Dá a seu ofício uma dimensão histórica.
Wagner Rodrigues Valente
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On Mathematical Symbols in China

, 2015
When studying the history of mathematical symbols, one finds that the development of mathematical symbols in China is a significant piece of Chinese history; however, between the beginning of mathematics and modern day mathematics in China, there exists ...
Li, Fang, Zhang, Yong
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Acts of Time: Cohen and Benjamin on Mathematics and History [PDF]

, 2017
This paper argues that the principle of continuity that underlies Benjamin’s understanding of what makes the reality of a thing thinkable, which in the Kantian context implies a process of “filling time” with an anticipatory structure oriented to the ...
Ng, Julia
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Sofia A. Yanovskaya: The Marxist Pioneer of Mathematical Logic in the Soviet Union [PDF]

, 2019
K. Marx’s 200th jubilee coincides with the celebration of the 85 years from the first publication of his “Mathematical Manuscripts” in 1933. Its editor, Sofia Alexandrovna Yanovskaya (1896–1966), was a renowned Soviet mathematician ...
Kilakos, Dimitris
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Variations in duty arrangements to respond to concerns about children's welfare [PDF]

, 2006
Historians and philosophers of mathematics share an interest in the nature of mathematics: what it is, what features affect its growth, how it informs other disciplines. But much of the work done in history and philosophy of mathematics suggests that the
Statham, June, Cameron, Claire
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Categories without structures [PDF]

, 2009
The popular view according to which Category theory provides a support for Mathematical Structuralism is erroneous. Category-theoretic foundations of mathematics require a different philosophy of mathematics.
Rodin, Andrei
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Mathematical Abstraction, Conceptual Variation and Identity [PDF]

, 2014
One of the key features of modern mathematics is the adoption of the abstract method. Our goal in this paper is to propose an explication of that method that is rooted in the history of the ...
Marquis, Jean-Pierre
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A Mathematician\u27s Overview of the Virginia Elementary Mathematics Specialist Program [PDF]

, 2010
This article discusses the mathematics component of the Mathematics Specialist master\u27s degree program in the Virginia Mathematics Specialist Project (VMSP).
Pitt, L. D.
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