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Studies in history of mathematics dedicated to A. P. Youschkevitch. Proceedings of the XXth international congress of history of science, Liège, Belgium, July 20–26, 1997. Vol. XIII. (English) Zbl 1073.01003

De Diversis Artibus 56. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers (ISBN 2-503-51199-6/pbk). 364 p. (2002).

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The 19th congress (1993) has been reviewed (see Zbl 0855.00012). Other papers of the 20th congress have been reviewed (see Zbl 1015.01001 and Zbl 1001.00508).
Contents: Pierre Dugac, Adolf Pavlovitch Youschkevitch in memoriam (1906–1993) (11–18); Guy Beaujouan, Yushkevich et les mathématiques de l’Occident médiéval chrétien [Yushkevich and mathematics in the medieval Christian West] (19–24); Karine Chemla, Les travaux de A. P. Youschkevitch sur l’histoire des mathématiques en Chine [The works of A. P. Yushkevich on the history of mathematics in China] (25–31); Serguei S. Demidov, A. P. Youschkevitch et l’histoire des mathématiques en Russie [A. P. Yushkevich and the history of mathematics in Russia] (33–42); Natalja S. Ermolaeva, L’histoire de l’analyse mathématique dans les recherches de Youschkevitch [The history of mathematical analysis in the research of Yushkevich] (43–50); Mariam M. Rozhanskaya, La correspondance scientifique entre A. P. Juschkewitsch et K. Vogel [The scientific correspondence of A. P. Yushkevich and K. Vogel] (51–55); Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, Ethnoscience and ethnomathematics: the evolution of modes of thought in the last five hundred years (59–71); Georg Schuppener, Die ersten Schritte des Zählens – sprachgeschichtliche Betrachtungen zu Verben des Zählens [The first steps of counting – philological considerations of the verbs of counting] (73–80); Eberhard Schröder, Ulrich Wagner: Autor des ersten gedruckten deutschsprachigen kaufmännischen Rechenbuches [Ulrich Wagner: author of the first printed German-language book of commercial arithmetic] (81–88); Sergio Nobre, Christian Wolff (1679–1754) and his contribution for the mathematics education (89–94); Juan Navarro Loidi, Sebastián Fernández de Medrano (1646–1705) (95–106); Massimo Mazzotti, The Neapolitan school. Studying pure geometry in the period of the revolutions (107–112).
Ioanna Mountriza, La tradition archimédienne sur la sphère et la complexité de sa reconstitution [The tradition of Archimedes’ Sphere and the complexity of reconstituting that tradition] (115–123); Albert V. Khabelashvili, Problem by Apollonius of Perga (125–140); Konstantinos Nikolantonakis, Serenus d’Antinoé dans la tradition post-apollonienne [Serenus of Antinoeia in the post-Apollonian tradition] (141–152); Jean Christianidis, Les lecteurs byzantins de Diophante [The Byzantine readers of Diophantus] (153–163); Michela Cecchini, Traces of Maurolicus’ influence on G. de Saint Vincent (165–171); Oscar João Abdounur, Music according to Descartes (173–185); Anne Guillaume, Histoire de la dynamique et de la prévision des vagues à la surface de l’océan [History of the dynamics and forecasting of surface waves of the ocean] (187–199); Vera Chinenova, The application of differential calculation by P. Varignon in the science about movement (201–206) ; Christian Gilain, J. H. Lambert et la recherche d’une théorie du calcul intégral à l’époque des Lumières [J. H. Lambert and the search for a theory of integral calculus during the Enlightenment] (207–215); Aldo Cauvin and Giuseppe Stagnitto, L. Euler and the birth of modern structural mechanics. From the catenary to the beam theory (217–234); Roger Godard, History of the least squares method and its links with the probability theory (237–250); François Jongmans, Un regard nouveau sur l’œuvre de Jules Bienaymé à la lumière des archives familiales et de la correspondance [The works of Jules Bienaymé reconsidered in light of his family archives and his correspondence] (251–256) .
Valentina G. Alyabieva, Tactical configurations and finite groups (19th–20th centuries) (259–268); Santiago Garma, Des quantités imaginaires au nombre complexe, d’après les Espagnols du XIXe siècle [From imaginary quantities to complex numbers: nineteenth-century Spanish mathematicians] (269–276); Michiyo Nakane, The origin of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory in the calculus of variations (277–284); Karl-Heinz Schlote, Leipziger Beiträge zur Theorie hyperkomplexer Systeme [Contributions from Leipzig to the theory of hypercomplex systems] (285–296); Peter Ullrich, Geometrical imagination in the mathematics of Karl Weierstraß(297–307); Miguel Ángel Gil Saurí, The contributions of P. M. Gonzáles-Quijano to descriptive geometry (Spanish) (311–318); Eiichi Morimoto, The formation of Hayashi’s quantification theory (319–324); Luis M. R. Saraiva, Pedro José da Cunha (1867–1945), historian of Portuguese mathematics (325–337); Wiesław Wójcik, The impact of Zygmunt Janiszewski on the development of topology (339–343) ; Charles E. Ford, Mathematics and Marxism (345–361) .
{The papers will not be reviewed individually.}

MSC:

01-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to history and biography
00B25 Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest

Biographic References:

Youshkevich, A. P.
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