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- Contains rigorously reviewed scholarly works on the history and philosophy of mathematics from a variety of time periods and cultures
- Contributions are written by the leading scholars in the field
- Will be accessible to anyone with a general interest in mathematics, not just students and academics
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•Physical tools used by mathematicians in the seventeenth century
•The first historical appearance of the game-theoretical concept of mixed-strategy equilibrium
•George Washington’s mathematical cyphering books
•The development of the Venn diagram
•The role of Euler and other mathematicians in the development of algebraic analysis
•Arthur Cayley and Alfred Kempe’s influence on Charles Peirce's diagrammatic logic
•The influence publishers had on the development of mathematical pedagogy in the nineteenth century
•A description of the 1924 International Mathematical Congress held in Toronto, told in the form of a “narrated slide show” Written by leading scholars in the field, these papers will be accessible to not only mathematicians and students of the history and philosophy of mathematics, but also anyone with a general interest in mathematics.
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Book Title: Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Book Subtitle: The CSHPM 2014 Annual Meeting in St. Catharines, Ontario
Editors: Maria Zack, Elaine Landry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22258-5
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22257-8Published: 11 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27715-8Published: 20 January 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22258-5Published: 10 November 2015
Series ISSN: 2366-3308
Series E-ISSN: 2366-3316
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 192
Number of Illustrations: 74 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Philosophy of Science