John Playfair on British decline in mathematics

DOI10.1080/17498430802037830MaRDI QIDQ3519301zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Amy Ackerberg-Hastings

Publication date 14 August 2008

Published in BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430802037830

zbMATH Keywords

19th century mathematicsBritish mathematicshistory of mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Analysis and synthesis in John Playfair's Elements of Geometry
• Geometry versus analysis in early 19th-century Scotland: John Leslie, William Wallace, and Thomas Carlyle
• The analytical society (1812-1813): Precursor of the renewal of Cambridge mathematics
• Why should historical truth matter to mathematicians? Dispelling myths while promoting maths

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• Mathematics at Maynooth until 1850: teachers, teaching, and texts
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