Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics: The Cshpm 2021 Volume
Zack, Maria, Waszek, David
- 出版商: Birkhauser Boston
- 出版日期: 2024-05-12
- 售價: $6,190
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,881
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 307
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 303121496X
- ISBN-13: 9783031214967
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This volume contains eighteen papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics. 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.
Some of the topics explored include
The volume concludes with two short plays, one set in Ancient Mesopotamia and the other in Ancient Egypt, that are well suited for use in the mathematics classroom.
Written 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.
Some of the topics explored include
- Arabic editions of Euclid's Elements from the thirteenth century and their role in the assimilation of Euclidean geometry into the Islamic intellectual tradition
- Portuguese sixteenth century recreational mathematics as found in the Tratado de Prática Darysmetica
- A Cambridge correspondence course in arithmetic for women in England in the late nineteenth century
- The mathematical interests of the famous Egyptologist Thomas Eric (T. E.) Peet
- The history of Zentralblatt für Mathematik and Mathematical Reviews and their role in creating a publishing infrastructure for a global mathematical literature
- The use of Latin squares for agricultural crop experiments at the Rothamsted Experimental Station
- The many contributions of women to the advancement of computing techniques at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in the 1960s
The volume concludes with two short plays, one set in Ancient Mesopotamia and the other in Ancient Egypt, that are well suited for use in the mathematics classroom.
Written 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.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書收錄了由加拿大數學歷史與哲學學會所彙集的十八篇論文。它展示了在數學歷史和哲學以及數學歷史教學領域中經過嚴格審查的當代學術研究,涵蓋了各種有趣的主題。
其中一些探討的主題包括:
- 十三世紀阿拉伯版歐幾里得《幾何原本》及其在伊斯蘭知識傳統中吸收歐幾里得幾何的角色
- 葡萄牙十六世紀《實用算術論》中的娛樂數學
- 十九世紀末英國劍橋大學為女性開設的算術通信課程
- 著名埃及學家托馬斯·埃里克(T. E.)皮特的數學興趣
- 《數學中央雜誌》和《數學評論》的歷史以及它們在建立全球數學文獻出版基礎設施中的角色
- 在羅瑟姆斯特德實驗站使用拉丁方進行農作物實驗
- 劍橋大學卡文迪什實驗室在1960年代對計算技術發展的眾多貢獻
本書以兩個短劇結尾,一個設定在古代美索不達米亞,另一個設定在古埃及,非常適合在數學課堂上使用。
這些論文由該領域的領先學者撰寫,不僅適合數學家和數學歷史哲學的學生閱讀,也適合對數學有一般興趣的讀者。