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RESEARCH IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATI...

This volume contains thirteen papers that were presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics La Société Canadienne d'Histoire et
de Philosophie des Mathématiques  held on the campus of Brock University in St. Catharines 
Ontario  Canada. It contains rigorously reviewed modern scholarship on general topics in the
history and philosophy of mathematics  as well as on the meeting's special topic  Early
Scientific Computation. These papers cover subjects such as -Physical tools used by
mathematicians in the seventeenth century -The first historical appearance of the
game-theoretical concept of mixed-strategy equilibrium -George Washington's mathematical
cyphering books -The development of the Venn diagram -The role of Euler and other
mathematicians in the development of algebraic analysis -Arthur Cayley and Alfred Kempe's
influence on Charles Peirce's diagrammatic logic -The influence publishers had on the
development of mathematical pedagogy in the nineteenth century -A description of the 1924
International Mathematical Congress held in Toronto  told in the form of a narrated slide show
Written by leading scholars in the field  these papers will be accessible to not only
mathematicians and students of the history and philosophy of mathematics  but also anyone with
a general interest in mathematics.

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