EAN: 9783034307086

THE HISTORY OF THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS KARTO...

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.

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