Screen LibraryRoutes of learning：highways, pathways, and byways in the history of mathematics
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Baltimore |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 372 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780801892486 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801892481 9780801892479 0801892473 |
| Index Number: | O1 |
| CLC: | O1-09 |
| Call Number: | O1-09/G773 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Searching for reasons : my way in and onward -- The mathematics of the past : distinguishing its history from our heritage -- Decline, then recovery : an overview of activity in the history of mathematics during the twentieth century -- On certain somewhat neglected features of the history of mathematics -- General histories of mathematics? Of use? To whom? -- Too mathematical for historians, too historical for mathematicians -- History of science journals : "to be useful, and to the living"? -- Scientific revolutions as convolutions? A skeptical inquiry ... These essays ponder the intellectual underpinnings of the field, examine the major topics in the history of mathematics, and recount the bizarre history of pseudomath. The author explores how people understand mathematics, the routes of learning they take as they make important discoveries and study mathematical concepts and theories.--[book cover] |