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Author:   Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9783034307086

ISBN 10:   303430708
Pages:   187
Publication Date:   18 January 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Philip Beeley: The progress of Mathematick Learning: John Wallis as historian of mathematics - Benjamin Wardhaugh: `It must have commenced with mankind': some ancient histories of arithmetic in eighteenth-century Britain - Rebekah Higgitt: The `epitome of intellectual sagacity': Biographical treatments of Newton as a mathematician - Niccolo Guicciardini: The Quarrel on the Invention of the Calculus in Jean E. Montucla and Joseph Jerome de Lalande, Histoire des Mathematiques (1758/1799-1802) - Adrian Rice: Vindicating Leibniz in the calculus priority dispute: The role of Augustus De Morgan - Henrik Kragh Sorensen: Reading Mittag-Leffler's biography of Abel as an act of mathematical self-fashioning - Jacqueline Stedall: Thomas Harriot (1560-1621): history and historiography.

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Benjamin Wardhaugh's collection of case studies ranging over two centuries does a fine job of bringing to life this complex history. It also, implicitly, suggests a way forward at a time of renewed interest in the field: to overcome the insularity that has caused one leading member to refer to it as a `ghetto discipline' the field must once again make itself relevant to studies of human life and culture. (Amir Alexander, Metascience 05/2013)

Benjamin Wardhaugh's collection of case studies ranging over two centuries does a fine job of bringing to life this complex history. It also, implicitly, suggests a way forward at a time of renewed interest in the field: to overcome the insularity that has caused one leading member to refer to it as a 'ghetto discipline' the field must once again make itself relevant to studies of human life and culture. (Amir Alexander, Metascience 05/2013)

Benjamin Wardhaugh's collection of case studies ranging over two centuries does a fine job of bringing to life this complex history. It also, implicitly, suggests a way forward at a time of renewed interest in the field: to overcome the insularity that has caused one leading member to refer to it as a 'ghetto discipline' the field must once again make itself relevant to studies of human life and culture. (Amir Alexander, Metascience 05/2013)

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Benjamin Wardhaugh is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where he works on mathematics and its uses in early modern Britain; he has a particular interest in the use of mathematics in early modern music theory. He is the author of How to Read Historical Mathematics (2010).

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