Author:
Grattan-Guinness, I.
Imprint:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxii, 372 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Searching for reasons : my way in and onward -- The mathematics of the past : distinguishing its history from our heritage -- Decline, then recovery : an overview of activity in the history of mathematics during the twentieth century -- On certain somewhat neglected features of the history of mathematics -- General histories of mathematics? Of use? To whom? -- Too mathematical for historians, too historical for mathematicians -- History of science journals : "to be useful, and to the living"? -- Scientific revolutions as convolutions? A skeptical inquiry -- On the relevance of the history of mathematics to mathematical education -- Achilles is still running -- Numbers, magnitudes, ratios, and proportions in Euclid's Elements : how did he handle them? -- Some neglected niches in the understanding and teaching of numbers and number systems -- What was and what should be the calculus? -- Manifestations of mathematics in and around the Christianities : some examples and issues -- Christianity and mathematics : kinds of links, and the rare occurrences after 1750 -- Mozart 18, Beethoven 32 : hidden shadows of integers in classical music -- Lagrange and Mozart as critics of Descartes -- Four pretty but little-known theorems involving the triangle.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
