Mathematical Perspectives
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Mathematical Perspectives

Essays on Mathematics and Its Historical Development

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Mathematical Perspectives

Essays on Mathematics and Its Historical Development

About this book

Mathematical Perspectives: Essays on Mathematics and its Historical Development is a collection of 13 biographical essays on the historical advances of science. This collection is originally meant to comprise an issue of the journal Historia Mathematica in honor of Professor Kurt R. Biermann's 60th birthday. This 12-chapter text includes essays on studies and commentaries on the problem of "figures of equal perimeter by various authors in antiquity, including Zenodorus, Theon, and Pappus. Other essays explore the comparison of the areas of polygons with equal perimeter; the concept of function; history of mathematics; the development of mathematical physics in France; and the history of Logicism and Formalism. The remaining chapters deal with essays on an early version of Gauss' Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, ideal numbers, a mathematical-philosophilica theory of probability, and historical examples of problem of number sequence interpolation. This book will be of value to mathematicians, historians, and researchers.

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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780122040504
eBook ISBN
9781483262574
Topic
Mathematics
Subtopic
Mathematics Reference
Index
Mathematics

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Mathematical Perspectives: Essays on Mathematics and its Historical Development
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Kurt-Reinhard Biermann
  8. Chapter 1. Adrianus Romanus and Giovanni Camillo Glorioso on Isoperimetric Figures
  9. Chapter 2. Des fonctions comme expressions analytiques aux fonctions representables analytiquement
  10. Chapter 3. August Leopold Crelle und die Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften
  11. Chapter 4. Hermite–Weber–Neumann: Kleine Briefgeschichte eines grossen Irrtums
  12. Chapter 5. Mittelalterliche mathematische Handschriften in westlichen Sprachen in der Berliner Staatsbibliothek. Ein vorlÀufiges Verzeichnis
  13. Chapter 6. Mathematical Physics in France, 1800-1840: Knowledge, Activity, and Historiography
  14. Chapter 7. Symbolik und Formalismus im mathematischen Denken des 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts
  15. Chapter 8. An Early Version of Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
  16. Chapter 9. Über die AnstĂ¶ĂŸe zu Kummers Schöpfung der "Idealen Complexen Zahlen
  17. Chapter 10. Leibniz on the Probable
  18. Chapter 11. Von Pascals Dreieck zu Eulers Gamma-Funktion. Zur Entwicklung der Methodik der Interpolation
  19. Chapter 12. Neue geometrische Texte aus Byzanz
  20. Chapter Deutsche Mathematiker—AuswĂ€rtige Mitglieder der Akademie der Wissenschaften der UdSSR
  21. Bibliographie
  22. INDEX