Note on models

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2019.01.001MaRDI QIDQ2323323zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Klaus Volkert

Publication date 30 August 2019

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2019.01.001

zbMATH Keywords

geometric modelsmathematical modelspolytechnical tradition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60)

Review text

In this short note, the author mainly focuses on how concrete mathematical models became abstract models, that is the shift in the usage of the word ``model in mathematics. There is a loose connection between late 19th-century polytechnical tradition in the German-speaking countries (mainly Germany and Switzerland here) and the evolution of the usage of the word ``model, which is skimmed over in this note.

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