The Intersection of History and Mathematics | ISBN 9783034875219

The Intersection of History and Mathematics

herausgegeben von Sasaki Chikara, Sugiura Mitsuo und Joseph W. Dauben
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonSasaki Chikara
Herausgegeben vonSugiura Mitsuo
Herausgegeben vonJoseph W. Dauben
Buchcover The Intersection of History and Mathematics  | EAN 9783034875219 | ISBN 3-0348-7521-5 | ISBN 978-3-0348-7521-9

The Intersection of History and Mathematics

herausgegeben von Sasaki Chikara, Sugiura Mitsuo und Joseph W. Dauben
Mitwirkende
Herausgegeben vonSasaki Chikara
Herausgegeben vonSugiura Mitsuo
Herausgegeben vonJoseph W. Dauben

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).