
Publication details
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Place: Basel
Year: 2018
ISBN (Hardback): 9783319908557
Full citation:
Maria Zack, Dirk Schlimm (eds), Research in history and philosophy of mathematics, Basel, Birkhäuser, 2018
Research in history and philosophy of mathematics
Contents
John Playfair's approach to "the practical parts of the mathematics"
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings
91-107
The culture of research mathematics in 1860s Prussia
Adolph Mayer and the theory of the second variation in the calculus of variations
Craig Fraser
121-140
The axiom of choice as paradigm shift
the case for the distinction between the ontological and the methodological crisis in the foundations of mathematics
Valérie L. Therrien
141-155