Bøger i Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/ Societe canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des mathematiques serien

Rickey: Professor Boles┼éaw Soboci╟╣ski and Logic at Notre Dame.- Lovsted: Fred Sommers'' Notations for Aristotelian Logic.- Jarry: L''equivalence duale de categories: a third way of analogy?.- P├⌐rez-Escobar: Mathematical Modelling and Teleology in Biology.- Pelland: Arithmetic, Culture, and Attention.- Lavers: Did Frege Solve One of Zeno''s Paradoxes?.- Ackerberg-Hastings: Charles Davies as a Philosopher of Mathematics Education.- Godard and De Boer: Gauss et le mod├¿le du champ magn├⌐tique terrestre.- Barnett: A Gaussian Tale for the Classroom: Lemniscates, Arithmetic-Geometric Means, and More.- Baltus: Philippe de la Hire: Was he Desargues'' Sch├╝ler? 

This volume contains fourteen papers that were presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d¿Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, held at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. In addition to showcasing rigorously reviewed modern scholarship on an interesting variety of topics in the history and philosophy of mathematics, this meeting also honored the life and work of the logician and philosopher of mathematics Aldo Antonelli (1962-2015). The first four papers in this book are part of that remembrance and have a philosophical focus. Included in these are a discussion of Bolzanös objections to Kant¿s philosophy of mathematics and an examination of the influence of rhetorical and poetic aesthetics on the development of symbols in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The remaining papers deal with the history of mathematics and cover such subjects as Early schemes for polar ordinates in the work of L¿Hôpital, based on lessons given to him by BernoulliA method devised by Euler for determining if a number is a sum of two squaresPlayfair¿s Axiom and what it reveals about the history of 19th-Century mathematics educationThe modern library classification system for mathematical subjectsAn exploration of various examples of sundials throughout ParisWritten by leading scholars in the field, these papers are accessible to not only mathematicians and students of the history and philosophy of mathematics, but also anyone with a general interest in mathematics.

This volume contains seventeen papers that were presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Soci¿ Canadienne d¿Histoire et de Philosophie des Math¿tiques, held in Washington, D.C. In addition to showcasing rigorously reviewed modern scholarship on an interesting variety of general topics in the history and philosophy of mathematics, this meeting also honored the memories of Jacqueline (Jackie) Stedall and Ivor Grattan-Guinness; celebrated the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America; and considered the importance of mathematical communities in a special session. These themes and many others are explored in these collected papers, which cover subjects such asNew evidence that the Latin translation of Euclid¿s Elements was based on the Arabic version attributed to al-¿ajj¿jWork done on the arc rampant in the seventeenth century The history of numerical methods for finding roots of nonlinear equationsAn original play featuring a dialogue between George Boole and Augustus De Morgan that explores the relationship between themKey issues in the digital preservation of mathematical material for future generationsA look at the first twenty-five years of The American Mathematical Monthly in the context of the evolving American mathematical communityThe growth of Math Circles and the unique ways they are being implemented in the United StatesWritten by leading scholars in the field, these papers will be accessible to not only mathematicians and students of the history and philosophy of mathematics, but also anyone with a general interest in mathematics.

Written by leading scholars in the field, these papers are accessible to not only mathematicians and students of the history and philosophy of mathematics, but also anyone with a general interest in mathematics.