Mathematics and the historian's craft. The Kenneth O. May Lectures (Q2567436)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Grattan-Guinness, Ivor}, History or heritage? An important distinction in mathematics and for mathematics education, 1-21 [Zbl 1084.01017] \textit{Jones, Alexander}, Ptolemy's mathematical models and their meaning, 23-42 [Zbl 1208.01005] \textit{Bennett, Jim}, Mathematics, instruments and navigation, 1600-1800, 43-55 [Zbl 1094.01002] \textit{Grabiner, Judith V.}, Was Newton's Calculus a dead end? The continental influence of Maclaurin's `Treatise of fluxions', 58-79 [Zbl 1086.01023] \textit{Thiele, Rüdiger}, The mathematics and science of Leonhard Euler (1707--1783), 82-139 [Zbl 1135.01008] \textit{Archibald, Thomas; Charbonneau, Louis}, Mathematics in Canada before 1945: a preliminary survey, 141-182 [Zbl 1090.01001] \textit{Parshall, Karen Hunger}, The emergence of the American mathematical research community, 183-202 [Zbl 1090.01009] \textit{Peckhaus, Volker}, 19th century logic between philosophy and mathematics, 205-220 [Zbl 1092.03002] \textit{Dauben, Joseph W.}, The battle for Cantorian set theory, 223-241 [Zbl 1090.01008] \textit{Thiele, Rüdiger}, Hilbert and his twenty-four problems, 243-295 [Zbl 1086.01028] \textit{Shanker, Stuart}, Turing and the origin of AI, 297-328 [Zbl 1090.01011] \textit{Koblitz, Ann Hibner}, Mathematics and gender: some cross-cultural observations, 329-345 [Zbl 1090.01014]