Joseph W. Dauben

Mathematical Perspectives: Essays on Mathematics and its Historical Development is a collection of 13 biographical essays on the historical advances of science. This collection is originally meant to comprise an issue of the journal Historia Mathematica in honor of Professor Kurt R. Biermann’s 60th birthday. This 12-chapter text includes essays on studies and commentaries on the problem of “figures of equal perimeter by various authors in antiquity, including Zenodorus, Theon, and Pappus. Other essays explore the comparison of the areas of polygons with equal perimeter; the concept of function; history of mathematics; the development of mathematical physics in France; and the history of Logicism and Formalism. The remaining chapters deal with essays on an early version of Gauss’ Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, ideal numbers, a mathematical-philosophilica theory of probability, and historical examples of problem of number sequence interpolation. This book will be of value to mathematicians, historians, and researchers.

Essays on Mathematics and Its Historical Development

Mathematical Perspectives

Joseph Warren Dauben

Festschrift für Menso Folkerts zum 65. Geburtstag

Mathematics celestial and terrestrial

Robert P. Multhauf

Ellen B. Wells

A Selective Bibliography

The History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present

Sasaki Chikara

Sugiura Mitsuo

The Intersection of History and Mathematics

Menso Folkerts

Yvonne Dold-Samplonius

Benno Van Dalen

The reports of a conference of 11 scholars who began the task of examing together primary sources that might shed som elight on exactly how and in what fomrs mathematical problems, concepts, and techniques may have been transmitted between various civilizations, from antiquity down to the European Renaissance following more or less the legendary silk routes between China and Western Europe.

2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical Ideas

From China to Paris

Joseph W. Dauben

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