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Proving Quadratic Reciprocity: Explanation, Disagreement, Transparency and Depth [PDF]

, 2019
Gauss’s quadratic reciprocity theorem is among the most important results in the history of number theory. It’s also among the most mysterious: since its discovery in the late 18th century, mathematicians have regarded reciprocity as a deeply surprising ...
D’Alessandro, William
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Les éphémérides nautiques et astronomiques de l’observatoire naval de Lisbonne et de l’observatoire astronomique de l’université de Coimbra, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle

Cahiers François Viète, 2016
The establishment of scientific education at the University of Coimbra was one of the most important features of the Pombal reform of the university (1772).
Fernando B. Figueiredo
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A contribution to the history of the restoration of mathematical teaching in Portuguese Jesuit Colleges in the 18th century, and the Jesuit mission in China

, 2022
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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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The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa, edited by Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon [PDF]

, 2018
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Ngom, Fallou
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The French-language translated book of Russia of the second third of the 18th century: features of the repertoire and importance for book culture

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки
Importance. The beginning of the process of interaction between Russian and French book cultures was laid by the era of the Europeanisation of Peter I. The Russian autocrat tirelessly sought to bring his country among the leading countries of the world ...
A. G. Topilsky
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Savant Syndrome: Clinical and Neuropsychological Features [PDF]

Psikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2010
Savant syndrome defines the people who have severe developmental and mental disabilities but also have extraordinary mental skills which are missing in many people.
Ibrahim Durukan, Tumer Turkbay
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The geometry of manifolds and the perception of space

, 2016
This essay discusses the development of key geometric ideas in the 19th century which led to the formulation of the concept of an abstract manifold (which was not necessarily tied to an ambient Euclidean space) by Hermann Weyl in 1913.
A Einstein, E Betti, F Frenet, H Weyl, H Weyl, M Kline, S-T Yau, TL Heath   +7 more
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Of the use of the “English sector” in trigonometry: what amount of mathematical training was necessary in the 18th century? [PDF]

, 2016
In 1723 Edmund Stone published The construction and principal uses of mathematical instruments, which was essentially a translation from the French of Bion’s Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathématique (1709).
Blanco Abellán, Mónica
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Arab-Islamic reception of Hellenistic science [PDF]

, 2015
This article is an overview of the Arab-Islamic reception and development of Hellenistic science. It particularly refers to mathematics, physics and astronomy. It focuses on the following topics: 1) Two interpretative models of this reception in the 19th,
Lelli, Giovanna
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