EAN: 9783319640921

RESEARCH IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATI...

This volume contains fourteen papers that were presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics La Société Canadienne d'Histoire et
de Philosophie des Mathématiques  held at the University of Calgary in Alberta  Canada. In
addition to showcasing rigorously reviewed modern scholarship on an interesting variety of
topics in the history and philosophy of mathematics  this meeting also honored the life and
work of the logician and philosopher of mathematics Aldo Antonelli (1962-2015). The first four
papers in this book are part of that remembrance and have a philosophical focus. Included in
these are a discussion of Bolzano's objections to Kant's philosophy of mathematics and an
examination of the influence of rhetorical and poetic aesthetics on the development of symbols
in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The remaining papers deal with the history of mathematics and
cover such subjects as Early schemes for polar ordinates in the work of L'Hôpital  based on
lessons given to him by BernoulliA method devised by Euler for determining if a number is a sum
of two squaresPlayfair's Axiom and what it reveals about the history of 19th-Century
mathematics educationThe modern library classification system for mathematical subjectsAn
exploration of various examples of sundials throughout ParisWritten by leading scholars in the
field  these papers are 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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