Research in History and Philosophy of MathematicsAuthor :
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This volume contains eleven papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Société canadienne dhistoire et de philosophie des mathématiques. It showcases rigorously-reviewed contemporary scholarship on an interesting variety of topics in the history and philosophy of mathematics, as well as the teaching of the history of mathematics. Topics considered includeThe mathematics and astronomy in Nathaniel Torperlys only published work, Diclides Coelometricae, seu valvae astronomicae universalConnections between the work of Urbain Le Verrier, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, and Augustin-Louis Cauchy on the algebraic eigenvalue problemAn evaluation of Ken Manders argument against conceiving of the diagrams in Euclids Elements in semantic termsThe development of undergraduate modern algebra courses in the United StatesWays of using the history of mathematics to teachthe foundations of mathematical analysisWritten by leading scholars in the field, these papers are accessible not only to mathematicians and students of the history and philosophy of mathematics, but also to anyone with a general interest in mathematics.
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