This volume contains ten papers that have been collected by the
Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Societe
canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des mathematiques. It
showcases rigorously-reviewed contemporary scholarship on an
interesting variety of topics in the history and philosophy of
mathematics from the seventeenth century to the modern era. The
volume begins with an exposition of the life and work of Professor
Boleslaw Sobocinski. It then moves on to cover a collection of
topics about twentieth-century philosophy of mathematics, including
Fred Sommers's creation of Traditional Formal Logic and Alexander
Grothendieck's work as a starting point for discussing analogies
between commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. Continuing the
focus on the philosophy of mathematics, the next selections discuss
the mathematization of biology and address the study of numerical
cognition. The volume then moves to discussing various aspects of
mathematics education, including Charles Davies's early book on the
teaching of mathematics and the use of Gaussian Lemniscates in the
classroom. A collection of papers on the history of mathematics in
the nineteenth century closes out the volume, presenting a
discussion of Gauss's "Allgemeine Theorie des Erdmagnetismus" and a
comparison of the geometric works of Desargues and La Hire. Written
by leading scholars in the field, these papers are accessible not
only to mathematicians and students of the history and philosophy
of mathematics, but also to anyone with a general interest in
mathematics.
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