| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 366 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: The historical interpretation of mathematical texts and the problem of anachronism / Niccolò Guicciardini -- From reading rules to reading algorithms : textual anachronisms in the history of mathematics and their effects on interpretation / Karine Chemla -- Anachronism and anachorism in the study of mathematics in India / Kim Plofker -- On the need to re-examine the relationship between the mathematical sciences and philosophy in Greek antiquity / Jacqueline Feke -- Productive anachronism : on mathematical reconstruction as a historiographical method / Martina R. Schneider -- Anachronism in the Renaissance historiography of mathematics / Robert Goulding -- Deceptive familiarity : differential equations in Leibniz and the Leibnizian school (1689-1736) / Niccolò Guicciardini -- Euler and analysis : case studies and historiographical perspectives / Craig Fraser and Andrew Schroter -- Measuring past geometers : a history of non-metric projective anachronism / Jemma Lorenat -- Anachronism : Bonola and non-Euclidean geometry / Jeremy Gray -- Anachronism and incommensurability : words, concepts, contexts, and intentions / Joseph W. Dauben |
| Summary |
Discover essays by leading scholars on the history of mathematics from ancient to modern times in European and non-European cultures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 26, 2021) |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- History
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Mathematics -- Historiography.
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Mathematics -- History -- Philosophy
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Matemáticas -- Historia
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Mathematics -- Historiography
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Mathematics
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Mathematics -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Guicciardini, Niccolò, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781108874564 |
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1108874568 |
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