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Œuvres de Ivor Grattan-Guinness

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1941-06-23
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Not what you might expect

I hoped that reading this book would give me a better understanding, in an historical context, of the issues involved in the controversies about the foundations of mathematics a century ago. I found this book fairly interesting, and it was a quick read, but it seems to be written for those who already have an essentially complete understanding of those issues, since the ideas themselves were addressed only tangentially. The focus of the book is much more on: who published what paper when, to what journal did he send it, who was the editor of the journal, who refereed the paper, to whom were offprints sent, in what archives can the manuscript be found, who read whose paper when, who met whom at what conference, who used what notation in writing which paper. This is very much a documentary history, and historians of mathematics will probably love it, but I am probably not the only mathematician who will not find this book completely satisfying.… (plus d'informations)
 
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cpg | Oct 14, 2017 |
This is just awesome! This is exactly what's missing from textbooks. Oh yeah, you get little blurbs about Descartes and Pascal but this is the whole story. This is what makes mathematics interesting. We enforce the study of the corpus without any recognition that our mathematics is an epic human achievement.

It gets pretty advanced. What we teach in high school was really understood by the 18th century so maybe half the book is kinda wasted. It really helped me when students would ask me "why" we had to study this stuff if I could wax poetic about who and how it was figured out.

A good read if your mathematically inclined. Indespensible if you teach the stuff.
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mobill76 | 1 autre critique | Apr 22, 2014 |
Lengthwise, 800 pages. Subjectwise, covers (the history of) most of the main branches of math. Difficultywise, not hard reading but technical clarity could be better. Placewise, more than 80% Europe. Timewise, more than 50% 1800s, with nothing after "the Great War."
 
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fpagan | 1 autre critique | Nov 16, 2007 |

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