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Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics

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    Chapter 1 The Latin Translation of Euclid’s Elements attributed to Adelard of Bath: Relation to the Arabic transmission of al-Ḥajjāj
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    Chapter 2 The Arc Rampant in 1673: Abraham Bosse, François Blondel, Philippe de la Hire, and conic sections
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    Chapter 3 The Need for a Revision of the Prehistory of Arithmetic and its Relevance to School Mathematics
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    Chapter 4 Bolzano’s measurable numbers: are they real?
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    Chapter 5 Finding the roots of a non-linear equation: history and reliability
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    Chapter 6 Remarkable Similarities: A dialogue between Boole and De Morgan
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    Chapter 7 Clifford and Sylvester on the Development of Peirce’s Matrix Formulation of the Algebra of Relations, 1870–1882
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    Chapter 8 The Correspondence of William Burnside
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    Chapter 9 Historical evidence of the close friendship between Yoshikatsu Sugiura and Paul Dirac
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    Chapter 10 Grattan-Guinness’s work on classical mechanics
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    Chapter 11 Humanistic Reflections on Hundredth Powers-A Case Study
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    Chapter 12 The Quest for Digital Preservation: Will a portion of mathematics history be lost forever?
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    Chapter 13 Mathematical Communities as a Topic and a Method
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    Chapter 14 The American Mathematical Monthly (1894-1919): A New Journal in the Service of Mathematics and Its Educators
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    Chapter 15 Charter Members of the MAA and the Material Culture of American Mathematics
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    Chapter 16 An American Postulate Theorist: Edward V. Huntington
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    Chapter 17 The establishment and growth of Math Circles in America
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Title
Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Published by
Birkhäuser, Cham, December 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-46615-6
ISBNs
978-3-31-943269-4, 978-3-31-946615-6
Editors

Maria Zack, Elaine Landry

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