The mathematics of the past: distinguishing its history from our heritage

By Ivor Grattan-Guinness. 2004

93 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Geometry and Topology, Statistics and Probability, Theoretical Computer Science

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In Geometry and Topology

1. Alexandre V. Borovik
2. Mikhail G. Katz
3. David Sherry

In Statistics and Probability

1. Alexandre V. Borovik
2. Mikhail G. Katz
3. David Sherry

In Theoretical Computer Science

1. David Sherry
2. Mikhail G. Katz
3. Alexandre V. Borovik
4. Piotr Błaszczyk

Citations in the corpus

• Who Gave You the Cauchy–Weierstrass Tale? The Dual History of Rigorous Calculus (2011, background): “On the contrary, their own pre-Weierstrassian muddles 65 need historical reconstruction ( Grattan-Guinness 2004, p. 176 ).”
• Leibniz’s Infinitesimals: Their Fictionality, Their Modern Implementations, and Their Foes from Berkeley to Russell and Beyond (2012, background): “A Hewitt-Łoś framework allows one to work in a Bcontinuum satisfying the transfer principle. A helpful ‘‘semicolon’’ notation for presenting an extended decimal expansion of a hyperreal was described by Lightstone (1972). See also Roquette (2010) for infinitesimal reminiscences.”