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The History of the History of Mathematics

Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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The writing of mathematical histories has a long history, one which has seldom received scholarly attention. Mathematical history, and mathematical biography, raise distinctive issues of method and approach to which different periods have responded in different ways. At a time of increasing interest in the history of mathematics, this book attempts to show something of the trajectory that history has taken in the past. It presents seven case studies illustrating the different ways that mathematical histories have been written since the seventeenth century, ranging from the ‘historia’ of John Wallis to the recent re-presentation of Thomas Harriot’s manuscripts online. It considers both the ways that individual reputations and biographies have been shaped differently in different circumstances, and the ways that the discipline of mathematics has itself been variously presented through the writing of its history.

Author Biography:

Benjamin Wardhaugh is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where he works on mathematics and its uses in early modern Britain; he has a particular interest in the use of mathematics in early modern music theory. He is the author of How to Read Historical Mathematics (2010).
Release date NZ
January 18th, 2012
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Edited by Benjamin Wardhaugh
Edition
New edition
Pages
187
ISBN-13
9783034307086
Product ID
19763471

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