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Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics

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    Chapter 1 The Definitions and Theorems of the Spherics of Theodosios
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    Chapter 2 John Marsh and the Curious World of Decimal Arithmetic
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    Chapter 3 Euler’s Discovery and Resolution of D’Alembert’s Paradox
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    Chapter 4 Euler’s Work on the Surface Area of Scalene Cones
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    Chapter 5 What Mathematics Rittenhouse Knew
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    Chapter 6 John Playfair’s Approach to “the Practical Parts of the Mathematics”
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    Chapter 7 Monge’s Descriptive Geometry in Three Examples
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    Chapter 8 The Culture of Research Mathematics in 1860s Prussia: Adolph Mayer and the Theory of the Second Variation in the Calculus of Variations
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    Chapter 9 The Axiom of Choice as Paradigm Shift: The Case for the Distinction Between the Ontological and the Methodological Crisis in the Foundations of Mathematics
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    Chapter 10 Boltzmann et Vlasov
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    Chapter 11 Takeuti’s Well-Ordering Proof: Finitistically Fine?
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    Chapter 12 A Non-error Theory Approach to Mathematical Fictionalism
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    Chapter 13 Mathematical Problem Choice and the Contact of Minds
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Chapter title
John Playfair’s Approach to “the Practical Parts of the Mathematics”
Chapter number 6
Book title
Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Published by
Birkhäuser, Cham, January 2018
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-90983-7_6
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-990855-7, 978-3-31-990983-7
Authors

Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, Ackerberg-Hastings, Amy

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Student > Master 1 100%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 1 100%

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