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| Author(s): | J. Dauben and C. Scriba J. Dauben and C. Scriba (Eds) |
| Publisher: | Birkhäuser |
| ISBN: | 3764361670 |
| Format: | softback |
| 689pp | |
| Price: | €78.83 |
| Review Date: | 19 November 2002 |
| Review: | The aim of this book is to provide not only a list of mathematicians with their biography and their major works, but to set them in perspective and show how and why the history of mathematics has developed as it has; in other words, presenting the history of the history (historiography) of mathematics. Forty-four authors from many countries contributed. The earliest historian of mathematics mentioned is Eudemus (4th century BC). The modern history of mathematics travels from the Renaissance in Italy and Germany to the early 20th century where the history of mathematics was being pursued in Latin America, Mexico, the USA, Japan and China. After WWII the science matured and most of the contributors bring the story down to at least the 1970s.There is biography section with portraits, as well as an extensive bibliography. |