On the history of mathematics at Leningrad State University at the end of the 1920s

1994 ◽  
pp. 207-212
Author(s):  
S. C. Mikhlin
Keyword(s):  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
State University ◽  
History Of

Florian Cajori

1930 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 509-510
Author(s):  
David Eugene Smith
Keyword(s):  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
State University ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
History Of ◽  
College Work

Florian Cajori, the foremost writer on the history of mathematics in this country, and well known to the readers of THE MATHEMATICS TEACHER, died at his home in Berkeley, California, on August 14, 1930, of pneumonia. He was born in Switzerland, and came to this country at the age of sixteen. He attended the State Nonnal School at Whitewater, Wisconsin, took his college work at the state university, and received the degree of B.S. in 1883. He then spent a year and a half at Johns Hopkins University after which he was called to Tulane University as assistant professor of mathematics (1885-1887), becoming professor of applied mathematics in 1888. The following year he was employed in the Bureau of Education at Washington, and secured much of the material that entered into his first printed book, The Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United States (1890). In 1889 he went to Colorado College as professor of physics, assuming the professorship of mathematics the following year and continuing in this position for twenty years (1898-1918), serving also as dean of the department of engineering for fifteen years (1903-1918). He was then given the unique position of professor of the history of mathematics at the University of California, retiring as professor emeritus in 1929.

scholarly journals A História Institucional no campo da História da Educação Matemática no BrasilInstitutional History within the context of the History of Mathematical Education in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-195
Author(s):  
Antonio Peixoto de Araujo Neto ◽  
Suélen Rita Andrade Machado
Keyword(s):  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Mathematical Education ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
State University ◽  
Mathematics History ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
History Of ◽  
Investigación Cualitativa ◽  
Education In Brazil

ResumoO presente trabalho reflete as experiências vivenciadas pelos autores em pesquisas científicas no tema da História Institucional e as discussões mobilizadas no Grupo de Estudos em História da Matemática e Educação Matemática da Universidade Estadual de Maringá (GHMEM-UEM) e tem por objetivo caracterizar metodologicamente o campo de pesquisa em História Institucional no âmbito da História da Educação Matemática no Brasil. Para tanto, valemo-nos dos pressupostos metodológicos da pesquisa de natureza qualitativa. O estudo caracteriza-se, também, pela abordagem holística, abrangente, detalhada e amparada em um contexto determinado pela problemática, baseado em fragmentos históricos. Além disso, utilizamos a técnica de revisão de literatura, buscando trabalhos afins, para situarmos este trabalho em um processo de produção de conhecimento da comunidade científica de modo a coletar informações nas quais se amplia o contexto para se enxergar a problemática. A partir do levantamento bibliográfico realizado, caracterizamos cinco campos de investigação no tema da História Institucional, a saber: História Institucional via personas; História Institucional via matriz curricular; História Institucional via contextos; História Institucional via influências e intercâmbios; e História Institucional via atas e/ou documentos. As nossas análises evidenciaram que o campo História Institucional via personas foi escolhido por todas as pesquisas consultadas, o que evidencia as potencialidades da História Oral.Palavras-chave: História da Matemática, História da Educação Matemática, História Institucional, Campos de investigação, Metodologia.AbstractThis study reflects the experience of the authors in researching Institutional History and the discussions raised in the History of Mathematics and Mathematical Education Study Group of Maringá State University (GHMEM-UEM) and aims to methodologically characterize Institutional History within the context of the History of Mathematical Education in Brazil. To this end, we use the methodological assumptions of qualitative research, as it rests on understanding, interpretation and data analysis. It is also characterized by a detailed, comprehensive, and holistic approach that is supported in a context determined by the problem, based on historical fragments. In addition, we use the literature review technique to place this work in a knowledge production process of the scientific community, in which the context is broadened in order to collect information to see the problem, and to look for similar works in the literature. Grounded in the bibliographic survey carried out, we characterize five research fields in Institutional History: Institutional History via personas; Institutional History via curriculum matrices; Institutional History via contexts; Institutional History via influences and exchanges; and Institutional History via minutes and/or documents. Our analyses show that Institutional History via personas was chosen by all the research consulted, which highlights the potential of Oral History.Keywords: History of Mathematics, History of Mathematical Education, Institutional History, Research fields, Methodology.ResumenEl presente trabajo refleja las experiencias vividas por los autores en la investigación científica sobre el tema de la Historia Institucional y las discusiones movilizadas en el Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Matemática y la Educación Matemática de la Universidad Estadual de Maringá (GHMEM-UEM), y tiene como objetivo caracterizar metodológicamente el campo investigacional en Historia Institucional dentro de la Historia de la Educación Matemática en Brasil. Para ello, utilizamos los supuestos metodológicos de la investigación cualitativa, ya que se basa en la comprensión, la interpretación y en el análisis de datos. También se caracteriza por un enfoque holístico, integral, detallado y sustentado en un contexto determinado por la problemática, a partir de fragmentos históricos. Además, utilizamos la técnica de revisión de la literatura para ubicar este trabajo en un proceso de producción de conocimiento de la comunidad científica con el objetivo de recolectar información en la que se amplía el contexto para ver el problema, buscando trabajos similares en la literatura. A partir del estudio bibliográfico realizado, caracterizamos cinco campos de investigación sobre el tema de la Historia Institucional. Son ellos: Historia Institucional vía personas; Historia institucional vía matriz curricular; Historia institucional a partir de contextos; Historia institucional a partir de influencias e intercambios e Historia Institucional a partir de Actas y / o documentos. Nuestros análisis mostraron que el campo Historia Institucional vía personas fue elegido por todas las investigaciones consultadas, lo que destaca el potencial de la Historia Oral.Palabras clave: Historia de la Matemáticas, Historia de la Educación Matemática, Historia Institucional, Campos de investigación, Metodología.

Riemann–Weyl in Deleuze's Bergsonism and the Constitution of the Contemporary Physico-Mathematical Space

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Calamari
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Gauge Field ◽  
Fibre Bundle ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Gauge Field Theory ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
Explicit Mention ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Bernhard Riemann

In recent years, the ideas of the mathematician Bernhard Riemann (1826–66) have come to the fore as one of Deleuze's principal sources of inspiration in regard to his engagements with mathematics, and the history of mathematics. Nevertheless, some relevant aspects and implications of Deleuze's philosophical reception and appropriation of Riemann's thought remain unexplored. In the first part of the paper I will begin by reconsidering the first explicit mention of Riemann in Deleuze's work, namely, in the second chapter of Bergsonism (1966). In this context, as I intend to show first, Deleuze's synthesis of some key features of the Riemannian theory of multiplicities (manifolds) is entirely dependent, both textually and conceptually, on his reading of another prominent figure in the history of mathematics: Hermann Weyl (1885–1955). This aspect has been largely underestimated, if not entirely neglected. However, as I attempt to bring out in the second part of the paper, reframing the understanding of Deleuze's philosophical engagement with Riemann's mathematics through the Riemann–Weyl conjunction can allow us to disclose some unexplored aspects of Deleuze's further elaboration of his theory of multiplicities (rhizomatic multiplicities, smooth spaces) and profound confrontation with contemporary science (fibre bundle topology and gauge field theory). This finally permits delineation of a correlation between Deleuze's plane of immanence and the contemporary physico-mathematical space of fundamental interactions.

Newton and the Origin of Civilization

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jed Z. Buchwald ◽  
Mordechai Feingold
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Civilizations ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
One Year ◽  
Radical Ideas

Isaac Newton’s Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man’s death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hundred years and Egypt’s by a millennium. This book tells the story of how one of the most celebrated figures in the history of mathematics, optics, and mechanics came to apply his unique ways of thinking to problems of history, theology, and mythology, and of how his radical ideas produced an uproar that reverberated in Europe’s learned circles throughout the eighteenth century and beyond. The book reveals the manner in which Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution of civilization on the basis of population dynamics. It was during Newton’s earliest years at Cambridge that he developed the core of his singular method for generating and working with trustworthy knowledge, which he applied to his study of the past with the same rigor he brought to his work in physics and mathematics. Drawing extensively on Newton’s unpublished papers and a host of other primary sources, the book reconciles Isaac Newton the rational scientist with Newton the natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian, and chronologist of ancient history.

HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE IN UZBEKISTAN (20-80S OF THE XX-TH CENTURY)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Oydinkhon akhtiyorzoda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Research ◽  
State University ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Geological Surveys ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Asian State ◽  
Scientific Personnel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central Asian State ◽  
Geological Science

The Article being considered the history of the creation and development of geological science in Uzbekistan using the example of the activities of scientists from Central Asian State University and Tashkent State University.Special attention is paid to the study of the practical orientation of geological surveys, fieldwork and laboratory research. As well as, shown is the phased discoveries, based on the research of University staff and their training of scientific personnel, specialized research institutions in the field of geology

N. V. Kyuner (1877-1955): ‘Korea in the Second Half of the 18th Century.’ The Unpublished Typescript

2018 ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
Nataliya A. Chesnokova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Far East ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
State University ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Crown Prince ◽  
Eastern Institute

Nikolai Vasilievich Kyuner (1877-1955) was a Russian Orientalist. Having graduated with merit from the St. Petersburg State University, he was sent to the Far East and spent there two years. Having returned, he was appointed head of the department of historical and geographical sciences at the Eastern Institute (Vladivostok) in 1904. Kyuner was one of the first Orientalists to teach courses in history, geography, and ethnography. His works number over 400. The article studies a typescript of his unpublished study ‘Korea in the second half of the 18th century’ now stored in the Archive of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). Little known to Russian Koreanists, it nevertheless retains its scientific significance as one of the earliest attempts to study the history of the ‘golden age’ of Korea. The date of the typescript is not known, though analysis of the citations places its completion between 1931 and 1940. The article is to introduce the typescript into scientific use and to verify some facts and terms. N. V. Kuyner’s typescript consists of 8 sections: (1) ‘Introduction. Sources review’; (2) ‘General characteristics of the social development stage of Korea in the second half of the 18th century’; (3) ‘Great impoverishment of the country’; (4) ‘Peasantry’; (5) ‘Cities’; (6) ‘Popular revolts’; (7) ‘Military bureaucratic regime’; (8) ‘The Great Collection of Laws’ (a legal code). There are excerpts from foreign and national publications of the 19th - early 20th century, and there’s also some valuable information on Korean legal codes and encyclopedias of the 18th century, which have not yet been translated into any European languages. The typescript addresses socio-economic situation in Korea in the 18th century; struggles of the court cliques of the 16th-18th centuries and their role in inner and foreign policies of the country; social structure of the society and problems of the peasantry; role of trade in the development of the Middle Korean society; legal proceedings and legislation, etc. One of the first among Russian Koreanistics, N. V. Kyuner examined causes of sasaek (Korean ‘parties’) formation and the following events, linking together unstable situation in the country, national isolation, and execution of Crown Prince Sado (1735-1762).

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