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The History of the History of Mathematics - Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Paperback, New edition)
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The History of the History of Mathematics - Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Paperback, New edition)
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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.
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