Changing images in mathematics from the French Revolution to the new millennium
This book focuses on some of the major developments in the history of contemporary (19th and 20th century) mathematics as seen in the broader context of the development of science and culture. Avoiding technicalities, it displays the breadth of contrasting images of mathematics favoured by different...
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| Format: | eBook |
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London :
Routledge
2001.
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| Edition: | 1st edition |
| Series: | Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ;
v. 13 Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; Volume 13. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628134706719 |
Table of Contents:
- The Ecole Polytechnique and mathematics in nineteenth-century France / Bruno Belhoste
- 2. From Paris to Berlin : contrasted images of nineteenth-century mathematics / Umberto Bottazzini
- 3. Images of applied mathematics in the German mathematical community / Tom Archibald
- 4. Felix Klein as Wissenschaftspolitiker / David E. Rowe
- 5. The German and French editions of the Klein-Molk encyclopedia : contrasted images / Helene Gispert
- 6. Mathematics and natural science in the nineteenth-century : the classical approaches of Poincare, Volterra and Hadamard / Jeremy Gray
- 7. Developments in statistical thinking and their links with mathematics / Michel Armatte
- 8. Mathematical structures from Hilbert to Bourbaki : the evolution of an image of mathematics / Leo Corry
- 9. The creation and persistence of national schools : the case of Italian algebraic geometry / Aldo Brigaglia
- 10. Definability as a mathematical concept before and after Godel / Gabriele Lolli
- 11. An image conflict in mathematics after 1945 / Amy Dahan Dalmedico
- 12. From catastrophy to chaos : the modeling practices of applied topologists / David Aubin
- 13. Beyond one-case statistics : mathematics, medicine and the management of health and disease in the post-war era / Jean-Paul Gaudillere.
