Chikara / Mitsuo / Dauben The Intersection of History and Mathematics

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-3-0348-7521-9
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 15, 262 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Science Networks. Historical Studies

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chikara, Sasaki

Mitsuo, Sugiura

Dauben, Joseph W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Mathematics: An Historian’s Perspective.- Une Méthode de Restitution — quelques examples dans le cas de Pascal.- The Birth of Maxwell’s Electro-Magnetic Field Equations.- Complex Curves — Origins and Intrinsic Geometry.- From Gauß to Weierstraß: Determinant Theory and Its Historical Evaluation.- The Reciprocity Law from Euler to Eisenstein.- Three Aspects of the Theory of Complex Multiplication.- The Establishment of the Takagi-Artin Class Field Theory.- Where Did Twentieth-Century Mathematics Go Wrong?.- Indian Mathematics in Arabic.- The Tetsujutsu Sankei (1722), an 18th Century Treatise on the Methods of Investigation in Mathematics.- The Adoption of Western Mathematics in Meiji Japan, 1853–1903.- The Philosophical Views of Klein and Hilbert.- Hermann Weyl’s Contribution to Geometry in the Years 1918 to 1923.- The Origins of Infinite Dimensional Unitary Representations of Lie Groups.- Dispelling a Myth: Questions and Answers about Bourbaki’s Early Works, 1934–1944.- Questions in the Historiography of Modern Mathematics: Documentation and the Use of Primary Sources [Abstract].- List of Invited Speakers at the Tokyo History of Mathematics Symposium 1990.- List of Speakers and Titles of Their Lectures at Session B (Short Communications).