The history of modern mathematics : proceedings of the Symposium on the History of Modern Mathematics, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, June 20-24, 1989
edited by David E. Rowe, John McCleary.
Boston : Academic Press, ©1989-©1994.
3 vols. : ilustraciones ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0125996616 (v. 1), 0125996624 (v. 2), 0125996632 (v. 3)
El vol. 3 es una secuela del simposio, no los proceedings del mismo. Carece de subtítulo, y sus editores son Eberhard Knobloch y David E. Rowe.
Incluye referencias bibliográficas.
Reseña: MathSciNet, 95a:01001 (v. 3)
Contenido
- v. 1. Ideas and their reception
- v. 2. Institutions and applications
- v. 3. Images, ideas, and communities.
- Vol. 3: Jesper Lützen and Walter Purkert, Conflicting tendencies in the historiography of mathematics: M. Cantor and H. G. Zeuthen
- I. Grattan-Guinness, "A new type of question": on the prehistory of linear and non-linear programming, 1770-1940
- Volker Peckhaus, Hilbert's axiomatic programme and philosophy
- Rossana Tazzioli, Rudolf Lipschitz's work on differential geometry and mechanics
- Peter Ullrich, The proof of the Laurent expansion by Weierstrass
- Peter Ullrich, The Riemann removable singularity theorem from 1841 onwards
- Della Dumbaugh Fenster and Karen Hunger Parshall, A profile of the American mathematical research community: 1891-1906
- Della Dumbaugh Fenster and Karen Hunger Parshall, Women in the American mathematical research community: 1891-1906
- Dian Zhou Zhang and Joseph W. Dauben, Mathematical exchanges between the United States and China: a concise overview.
