Defending Hypatia - Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)

In1713, PierreRem onddeMontmortwrotetothemathematicianNicolasBernoulli: It would bedesirable if someone wanted totake thetrouble toinstruct how and inwhat order the discoveries in mathematics have come about . . . The histories of painting, of music, of medicine have been written. A good history of mathematics, especially of geometry, would bea much more interesting and useful work . . . Such a work, ifdone well, could be regarded to some extent as a history of the human mind, since it is in this science, more than in anything else, that man makes known that gift of intelligence that God has given him to rise 1 above all other creatures. Ahalf-centurylater, Jean-EtienneMontuclaprovidedsuchanaccountinhisHistoire des mathem atiques ( rst printed in 1758, and reissued in a greatly expanded form 2 in 1799). Montucla's great work is generally acknowledged as the rst genuine history of mathematics. According to modern historians, previous attempts at such a history had amounted to little more than collections of anecdotes, biographies or exhaustive bibliographies: "jumbles of names, dates and titles," as one writer in the 3 Dictionary of Scienti c Biography characterizes them. Montucla, in contrast, was thoroughly animated by the Enlightenment project expressed in de Montmort's l- ter. In his Histoire he set out to provide a philosophicalhistory of the "development 4 of the human mind," as he himself described it."

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Archimedes, 25
Release date:	May 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Robert Goulding
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	25
Edition:	2010 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-3541-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Promotions
LSN:	90-481-3541-9
Barcode:	9789048135417

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