Cultures of Mathematics and Logic : Selected Papers from the Conference in Guangzhou, China, November 9-12, 2012 (Trends in the History of Science)

Ju, Shier (EDT)/ Löwe, Benedikt (EDT)/ Müller, Thomas (EDT)

Birkhauser Verlag AG（2018/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 123 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783319810539
• DDC分類 160

Full Description

This book
gathers the proceedings of the conference "Cultures of Mathematics and
Logic," held in Guangzhou, China. The event was the third in a series of
interdisciplinary, international conferences emphasizing the cultural
components of philosophy of mathematics and logic. It brought together
researchers from many disciplines whose work sheds new light on the diversity
of mathematical and logical cultures and practices. In this context, the
cultural diversity can be diachronical (different cultures in different
historical periods), geographical (different cultures in different regions), or
sociological in nature.

Contents

Preface.- Brendan Larvor: What
are mathematical cultures?.- Benedikt
Löwe: Philosophy or not? The study of cultures and practices of mathematics.-
Baptiste Mélès: Abacus as a
Programming Language: Computer Science and History of Mathematics.- Stig Andur Pedersen: Mathematics in
Engineering and Science.- Johannes
Wietzke: A Fashionable Curiosity: Claudius Ptolemy's "Desire for
Knowledge" in Literary Context.- Jia-Ming
Ying: Transmission and interactions among different types of geometrical
argumentations: From Jesuits in China to Nam Pyŏng-Gil in Korea.