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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1626283
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1626283 |
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Geniuses, ideas, institutions, mathematical workshops: Forms of writing mathematical history. A metahistorical essay (English)
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19 August 2001
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The essay discusses some current forms of the historiography in mathematics like biography, idea-history and history of institutions. Following this, the of the author approved form of the historiography is sketched. This is orientated on newer tendencies of the science-history to describe science as research-practice. To the illustration of the possibilities and problems of the discussed historiographic forms serve examples from the history of knot theory.
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historiography in mathematics
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idea-history
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knot theory
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