Writing the history of mathematics : its historical development

Authors:Joseph Warren Dauben, Christoph J. Scriba, International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science International Commission on the History of Mathematics

Summary:Writing the History of Mathematics provides both an intellectual and a social history of the development of the subject from the first such effort written in ancient Greece to recent efforts in the 20th century.

Print Book, English, 2002

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Publisher: Birkhäuser, Boston, Mass., 2002

Series:

Science networks historical studies, 27

Physical Description:xxxvii, 689 p. : il., fot. ; 24 cm.

ISBN:

9783764361662, 9783764361679, 3764361662, 3764361670

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:760636448

Subjects:

Matemáticas Historia

May, Kenneth O. Homenajes

Contents:

I Countries.- 1 France.- 2 Benelux.- 3 Italy.- 4 Switzerland.- 5 Germany.- 6 Scandinavia.- 7 The British Isles.- 8 Russia and the U.S.S.R..- 9 Poland.- 10 Bohemian Countries.- 11 Austria.- 12 Greece.- 13 Spain.- 14 Portugal.- 15 The Americas.- 16 Japan.- 17 China.- 18 India.- 19 Arab Countries, Turkey, and Iran.- 20 Postscriptum.- II Portraits and Biographies.- Portraits.- Biographies.- III Abbreviations, Bibliography, and Inde.- Abbreviations.