The Intersection of history and mathematics / editors, Sasaki Chikara, Sugiura Mitsuo, Joseph W. Dauben.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Science networks historical studies ; v. 15.
Corporate Author: International Congress of Mathematicians
Other Authors: Sasaki, Chikara, 1947-2020
Sigiura, Mitsuo, 1928-
Dauben, Joseph W., 1944-
Language:English
Published: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser-Verlag, 1994.
Series:Science networks historical studies ; v. 15.
Subjects:
Mathematics > History > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:x, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Contents:
  • Mathematics: an historian's perspective / Joseph W. Dauben
  • Une methode de restitution - quelques examples dans le cas de pascal / Hara Kokiti
  • The birth of Maxwell's electro-magnetic field equations / William J. Ellison
  • Complex curves - origins and intrinsic geometry / Jeremy J. Gray
  • From GauB to WeierstraB: determinant theory and its historical evaluation / Eberhard Knobloch
  • The reciprocity law from Euler to Eisenstein / Gunther Frei
  • Three aspects of the theory of complex multiplication / Takase Masahito
  • The establishment of the Takagi-Artin class field ktheory / Miyake Katsuya.
  • -- Where did twentieth-century mathematics go wrong? / Chandler Davis
  • Indian mathematics in Arabic / Roshdi Rashed
  • The Tetsujutsu Sankei (1722), an 18th century treatise on the methods of investigation in mathematics / Annick Horiuchi
  • The adoption of Western mathematics in Meiji Japan, 1853-1903 / Sasake Chikara
  • The philosophical views of Klein and Hilbert / David E. Rowe
  • Hermann Weyl's contribution to geometry in the years 1918 to 1923 / Erhard Scholz
  • The origins of infinite dimensional unitary representations of lie groups / Sugiura Mitsuo
  • Dispelling a myth: questions and answers about Bourbaki's early works, 1934-1944 / Lilane Beaulieu
  • Questions in the historiography of modern mathematics: documentation and the use of primary sources / Erwin Neuenschwander
  • 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).