Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development

Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development
Author: Joseph W. Dauben
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 776
Release: 2002-09-23
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9783764361679

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As an historiographic monograph, this book offers a detailed survey of the professional evolution and significance of an entire discipline devoted to the history of science. It provides both an intellectual and a social history of the development of the subject from the first such effort written by the ancient Greek author Eudemus in the Fourth Century BC, to the founding of the international journal, Historia Mathematica, by Kenneth O. May in the early 1970s.