The mathematics of the past: distinguishing its history from our heritage

DOI10.1016/S0315-0860(03)00032-6zbMath1063.01023OpenAlexW2056558678MaRDI QIDQ1877688

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Publication date: 19 August 2004

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0315-0860(03)00032-6

zbMATH Keywords

knowledge and ignorancemethodology of history

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Historiography (01A85) Philosophical and theoretical contributions (didactics of mathematics) (97D20)

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