The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (2012)
Wardhaugh, Benjamin (Editor)
P. Lang
Publication date: 2012
Language: English
Physical Details: vi + 187 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
The writing of mathematical histories has a long history, one which has seldom received scholarly attention. Mathematical history, and mathematical biography, raise distinctive issues of method and approach to which different periods have responded in different ways. At a time of increasing interest in the history of mathematics, this book attempts to show something of the trajectory that history has taken in the past. It presents seven case studies illustrating the different ways that mathematical histories have been written since the seventeenth century, ranging from the 'historia' of John Wallis to the recent re-presentation of Thomas Harriot's manuscripts online. It considers both the ways that individual reputations and biographies have been shaped differently in different circumstances, and the ways that the discipline of mathematics has itself been variously presented through the writing of its history.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Review Barany, Michael J. (2013) Review of "The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 344-345).
Review Mann, Tony (2014) Review of "The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries". Intellectual History Review (pp. 265-267).
Review Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich (2014) Review of "The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 295-297).
Chapter Beeley, Philip (2012) The Progress of Mathematick Learning: John Wallis as Historian of Mathematics. In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 9).
Chapter Wardhaugh, Benjamin (2012) “It Must Have Commenced with Mankind”: Some Ancient Histories of Arithmetic in Eighteenth-Century Britain. In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 31).
Chapter Higgitt, Rebekah (2012) The “Epitome of Intellectual Sagacity”: Biographical Treatments of Newton as a Mathematician. In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 47).
Chapter Guicciardini, Niccolo (2012) The Quarrel on the Invention of the Calculus in Jean E. Montucla and Joseph Jerome de Lalande, Histoire des Mathematiques (1758,1799--1802). In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 73).
Chapter Rice, Adrian (2012) Vindicating Leibniz in the Calculus Priority Dispute: The Role of Augustus De Morgan. In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 89).
Chapter Sørensen, Henrik Kragh (2012) Reading Mittag-Leffler's Biography of Abel as an Act of Mathematical Self-Fashioning. In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 115).
Chapter Stedall, Jacqueline (2012) Thomas Harriot (1560--1621): History And Historiography. In: The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries (p. 145).
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