Mathematical instruments between material artifacts and ideal machines: their scientific and social role before 1950. Abstracts from the workshop held December 17--23, 2017

DOI10.4171/OWR/2017/58MaRDI QIDQ1731968zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 15 March 2019

Published in Oberwolfach Reports (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/owr/2017/58

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Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest (00B25) Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to history and biography (01-06) History of geometry (51-03) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03) Collections of abstracts of lectures (00B05) History of dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-03) General histories, source books (01A05) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03) Graphical methods in numerical analysis (65S05)

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