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Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Falconer’s Cryptology
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    Chapter 2 Is Mathematics to Be Useful? The Case of de la Hire, Fontenelle, and the Epicycloid
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    Chapter 3 The Rise of “the Mathematicals”: Placing Maths into the Hands of Practitioners—The Invention and Popularization of Sectors and Scales
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    Chapter 4 Early Modern Computation on Sectors
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    Chapter 5 The Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Concept of Mixed-Strategy Equilibrium in Game Theory
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    Chapter 6 Reassembling Humpty Dumpty: Putting George Washington’s Cyphering Manuscript Back Together Again
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    Chapter 7 Natures of Curved Lines in the Early Modern Period and the Emergence of the Transcendental
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    Chapter 8 Origins of the Venn Diagram
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    Chapter 9 Mathematics for the World: Publishing Mathematics and the International Book Trade, Macmillan and Co.
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    Chapter 10 The Influence of Arthur Cayley and Alfred Kempe on Charles Peirce’s Diagrammatic Logic
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    Chapter 11 Émile Borel et Henri Lebesgue: HPM
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    Chapter 12 The Judicial Analogy for Mathematical Publication
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    Chapter 13 History and Philosophy of Mathematics at the 1924 International Mathematical Congress in Toronto
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Chapter title
Is Mathematics to Be Useful? The Case of de la Hire, Fontenelle, and the Epicycloid
Chapter number 2
Book title
Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Published by
Birkhäuser, Cham, January 2015
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22258-5_2
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-922257-8, 978-3-31-922258-5
Authors

Christopher Baltus

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