History is a foreign country: a journey through the history of mathematics

DOI10.1007/978-3-031-40855-7_26MaRDI QIDQ6623926zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Snezana Lawrence

Publication date 24 October 2024

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40855-7_26

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) General histories, source books (01A05) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Historiography (01A85)

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Cites work

• Descriptive Geometry in England: Lost in Translation
• Descriptive geometry, the spread of a polytechnic art. The legacy of Gaspard Monge
• Géométrie descriptive. Augmentée d'une théorie des ombres et de la perspective, extraite des papiers de l'auteur par B. Brisson. I, II. (Les maîtres de la pensée scientifique.)

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