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Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics - The CSHPM 2021 Volume (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics - The CSHPM 2021 Volume (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Series: Annals of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/ Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques
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This volume contains eighteen papers that have been collected by
the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics. It
showcases rigorously-reviewed contemporary scholarship on an
interesting variety of topics in the history and philosophy of
mathematics, as well as the teaching of the history of
mathematics.  Some of the topics explored include
Arabic editions of Euclid’s Elements from the thirteenth century
and their role in the assimilation of Euclidean geometry into the
Islamic intellectual tradition Portuguese sixteenth century
recreational mathematics as found in the Tratado de Prática
Darysmetica A Cambridge correspondence course in arithmetic
for women in England in the late nineteenth century The
mathematical interests of the famous Egyptologist Thomas Eric (T.
E.) Peet The history of Zentralblatt für Mathematik and
Mathematical Reviews and their role in creating a publishing
infrastructure for a global mathematical literature The use of
Latin squares for agricultural crop experiments at the Rothamsted
Experimental Station The many contributions of women to the
advancement of computing techniques at the Cavendish Laboratory at
the University of Cambridge in the 1960s The volume concludes with
two short plays, one set in Ancient Mesopotamia and the other in
Ancient Egypt, that are well suited for use in the mathematics
classroom. 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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