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Revolutions in Mathematics

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The publication of Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962 led to an exciting discussion of revolutions in the natural sciences. A fascinating, but little known, off-shoot of this was a debate which began in the United States in the mid-1970's as to whether the concept of revolution could be applied to mathematics as well as science. Michael Crowe declared that revolutions never occur in mathematics, while Joseph Dauben argued that there have been mathematical revolutions and gave some examples. This book is the first comprehensive examination of the question. It reprints the original papers of Crowe, Dauben, and Mehrtens, together with additional chapters giving their current views. To this are added new contributions from nine further experts in the history of mathematics, who each discuss an important episode and consider whether it was a revolution. The whole question of mathematical revolutions is thus examined comprehensively and from a variety of perspectives.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction 1: Michael Crowe: Ten 'laws' concerning patterns of change in the history of mathematics 1975 2: Herbert Mehrtens: T.S. Kuhn's theories and mathematics: a discussion paper on the new historiography of mathematics 1976 3: Herbert Mehrtens: Appendix 1992 revolutions reconsidered 4: Joseph Dauben: Conceptual revolutions and the history of mathematics: two studies in the growth of knowledge 1984 5: Joseph Dauben: Appendix 1992: revolutions revisited 6: Paolo Mancosu: Descartes's geometrie and revolutions in mathematics 7: Emily Grosholz: Was Leibniz a mathematical revolutionary? 8: Giulio Giorello: The 'fine structure' of mathematical revolutions: metaphysics, legitimacy, and rigour. The case of calculus from Newton to Berkeley and MacLaurin 9: Yuxin Zheng: Non-Euclidean geometry and revolutions in mathematics 10: Luciano Boi: The 'revolution' in the geometrical vision of space in the nineteenth century, and the hermeneutical epistemology of mathematics 11: Caroline Dunmore: Meta-level revolutions in mathematics 12: Jeremy Gray: The nineteenth-century revolution in mathematical ontology 13: Herbert Breger: A restoration that failed: Paul Finsler's theory of sets 14: Donald Gillies: The Fregean revolution in logic 15: Michael Crowe: Afterword 1992: A revolution in the historiography of mathematics? About the contributors Bibliography Index

Review :
'The book makes interesting reading.' Short Book Reviews 'are graced with excellent collective bibliographies, and Gillies's has a good index' Annals of Science, 51 (1994)


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  • ISBN-13: 9780198514862
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 550 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198514867
  • Publisher Date: 02 Nov 1995
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 364
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 153 mm


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