Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

PÉREZ FERNÁNDEZ and José M. DÍAZ MORENO.
(576 pp.) San Fernando: Sociedad Andaluza de
Educación Matemática THALES, 1998. ISBN:
8492376007.
Reproducción facsimilar de la edición publicada en 1821.
2084. CENTINA, Andrea Del. “Abel’s Surviving
Manuscripts Including One Recently Found in London.”
Hist. Math. 33 (2006): 224–233.
2085. CHEN Minghui and DENG Mingli. “Philosophical
Reflections on Qualitative Theory and Stability
Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations.”
[Translated title.] In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu
24 (2005): 45–52.
2086. COEN, Deborah Rachel. “A Scientific Dynasty:
Probability, Liberalism, and the Exner Family
in Imperial Austria.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/05 (2004):
1937.
Dissertation at Harvard University, 2004. Adviser: Galison,
Peter. UMI pub. no. 3131812. 398 pp.
2087. CRAMER, J. S. “The Early Origins of the
Logit Model.” Stud. Hist. Phil. Biol. Biomed. Sci. 35
(2004): 613–626.
Describes the origins of the logistic function from the early
19th century to the beginning of its wider acceptance in
statistics in about 1950. (from the abstract)
2088. CRILLY, Tony. “Arthur Cayley FRS and the
Four-Colour Map Problem.” Notes Rec. Roy. Soc.
Lond. 59 (2005): 285–304.
2089. CROZET, Pascal. “Entre science et art : la
géométrie descriptive et ses applications à l’épreuve
de la traduction (Égypte, XIX e siècle).” In CROZET
and HORIUCHI [ref. 1961], 171–200.
2090. DENG Mingli and YAN Chenguang. “The
Rudiments of the Idea of Riemann for Geometry.”
[Translated title.] In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu
25 (2006): 66–75.
2091. EHRLICH, Philip. “The Rise of Non-
Archimedean Mathematics and the Roots of a Misconception
I: The Emergence of Non-Archimedean
Systems of Magnitudes.” Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 60
(2006): 1–121.
2092. ESPAÑOL GONZÁLEZ, Luis. “Avances en la
Historia de la Geometría contemporánea española
durante el último cuarto de siglo.” Llull 26 (2003):
809–836.
This article presents a brief overview of papers published
from 1977 to 2002 on the history of Spanish geometry in the
19th and early 20th centuries.
2093. FRIENDLY, Michael, and Daniel DENIS. “The
Early Origins and Development of the Scatterplot.” J.
Hist. Behav. Sci. 41 (2005): 103–130.
2094. GRAHAM, Loren, and Jean-Michel KANTOR.
“A Comparison of Two Cultural Approaches to Mathematics:
France and Russia, 1890–1930.” Isis 97
(2006): 56–74.
2095. GRAY, Jeremy. “Mathematics and Natural
Science in the Nineteenth-Century: The Classical
Approaches of Poincaré, Volterra and Hadamard.” In
BOTTAZZINI and DAHAN DALMEDICO [ref. 315],
113–136.
2096. HARTIMO, Mirja. “Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology
and the Development of Mathematics
in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A
65/12 (2005): 4588.
360. Nineteenth century 101
Dissertation at Boston University, 2005. Adviser: Hintikka,
Jaakko. UMI pub. no. 3157377. 238 pp.
2097. HILL, Vicki Lynn. “Constantin Caratheodory:
1873–1950.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/02 (2004): 671.
Dissertation at The American University, 2003. Adviser:
Gray, Mary. UMI pub. no. 3122176. 204 pp. On a 30-minute
film documentary of this mathematician.
2098. INNES, Shelley. “Mary Boole and Curve
Stitching: A Look into Heaven.” Endeavour 28
(2004): 36–38.
2099. KAPLAN, Pierre. “L’équation de Pell-Fermat,
de Fermat à nos jours et un problème de Gauss.” In
MORELON and HASNAWI [ref. 21], 205–219.
2100. KENT, Deborah Anne. “Benjamin Peirce and
the Promotion of Research-Level Mathematics in
America: 1830–1880.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/09
(2006): 3436.
Dissertation at the University of Virginia, 2005. Adviser:
Parshall, Karen V. H. UMI pub. no. 3189297. 368 pp.
2101. MARCHISOTTO, Elena Anne Corie. “The
Projective Geometry of Mario Pieri: A Legacy of
Georg Karl Christian von Staudt.” Hist. Math. 33
(2006): 277–314.
2102. MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA, María Ángeles. Las
Matemáticas en la Ingeniería: Las Matemáticas en
los Planes de Estudios de los Ingenieros Civiles
en España en el siglo XIX. Cuadernos de Historia
de la Ciencia, 16. (2 vols.: 1286 pp.) Zaragoza:
SEHCTAR, 2004. ISBN: 8489584133.
2103. MAUREY, Bernard, and Jean-Pierre TACCHI.
“La genèse du théorème de recouvrement de Borel.”
Rev. Hist. Math. 11 (2005): 163–204.
2104. MOHUN, Arwen. “On the Frontier of The
Empire of Chance: Statistics, Accidents, and Risk
in Industrializing America.” Sci. Context 18 (2005):
337–357.
Explores themes discussed in Gerd GIGERENZER, Zeno
SWIJTINK, Theodore PORTER, Lorraine DASTON, John
BEATTY, and Lorenz KRÜGER, The Empire of Ehance
(1989).
2105. NEUMANN, Peter M. “The Concept of Primitivity
in Group Theory and the Second Memoir of
Galois.” Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 60 (2006): 379–429.
On the origin of the concept of primitivity in group theory.
2106. PHILLIPS, Christopher. “Augustus De Morgan
and the Propagation of Moral Mathematics.” Stud.
Hist. Phil. Sci. 36 (2005): 105–133.
2107. PHILLIPS, Christopher. “Robert Woodhouse
and the Evolution of Cambridge Mathematics.” Hist.
Sci. 44 (2006): 69–94.
2108. POINCARÉ, Henri, and Gösta MITTAG-
LEFFLER. La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré
et Gösta Mittag-Leffler : Avec en annexe les lettres
échangées par Poincaré avec Fredholm, Gyldén et
Phragmén. Edited by Philippe NABONNAND. Publications
des Archives Henri Poincaré. (421 pp.; bibl.;
index.) Berlin: Birkhäuser, 1999. ISBN: 3764359927.
2109. RONAN, Mark. Symmetry and the Monster:
One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics. (vii + 255
pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Oxford / New York: Oxford
Univ. Press, 2006. ISBN: 0192807226.