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A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 On Cantor’s Continuum Problem and Well Ordering: What really happened at the 1904 International Congress of Mathematicians in Heidelberg
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    Chapter 2 Nonstandard Analysis, Infinitesimals, and the History of Calculus
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    Chapter 3 Despite Kempe, the Modest Place of Multisets and Multiclasses in Foundational Theories
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    Chapter 4 Proofs and Contexts: the Debate between Bernoulli and Newton on the Mathematics of Central Force Motion
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    Chapter 5 Saturn’s Rings from Laplace to Poincaré
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    Chapter 6 Henri Poincaré and Hermann Weyl on the Foundations of Mathematics
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    Chapter 7 Yixing (一行) in Paris
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    Chapter 8 Needham’s 19 (j) and Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci: A New Approach to the Communication and Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge from China to the West
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    Chapter 9 New Perspectives on Commercial Arithmetic in Renaissance Spain
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    Chapter 10 Historical Events in the Background of Hilbert’s Seventh Paris Problem
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    Chapter 11 Correspondence of 李儼 Li Yan and David Eugene Smith
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    Chapter 12 “A New Era in the Development of Our Science”: The American Mathematical Research Community, 1920-1950
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    Chapter 13 Some Distinctive Features of Ancient Chinese Mathematics: A Brief Introduction and Comparison with Its Greek Counterpart
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    Chapter 14 On the Algorithmic Tradition in the History of Mathematics
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    Chapter 15 Gu Yingxiang’s Method of Solving Numerical Equations with the Abacus
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    Chapter 16 History of Korean Mathematics, 1657-1868: An Overview
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    Chapter 17 Transmission of Probability Theory into China at the End of the Nineteenth Century
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    Chapter 18 Bibliography
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Title
A Delicate Balance: Global Perspectives on Innovation and Tradition in the History of Mathematics
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2015
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-12030-0
ISBNs
978-3-31-912029-4, 978-3-31-912030-0
Editors

David E. Rowe, Wann-Sheng Horng

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Country Count As %
Canada 1 20%
Unknown 4 80%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 20%
Researcher 1 20%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 20%
Student > Master 1 20%
Unknown 1 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 2 40%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 20%
Arts and Humanities 1 20%
Unknown 1 20%