Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development

Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 776
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ISBN-10 : 3764361670
ISBN-13 : 9783764361679
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Download or read book Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development written by Joseph W. Dauben and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-09-23 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an historiographic monograph, this book offers a detailed survey of the professional evolution and significance of an entire discipline devoted to the history of science. It provides both an intellectual and a social history of the development of the subject from the first such effort written by the ancient Greek author Eudemus in the Fourth Century BC, to the founding of the international journal, Historia Mathematica, by Kenneth O. May in the early 1970s.


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