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Written by Abraham Wolf as a sequel to A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th Centuries (1935), [1] [2] the book was first published in 1939. It comprises 32 chapters, [3] most of which pertain to the sciences, including astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, geography, mathematics, mechanics, medicine, meteorology, physics, and zoology. [4]
Dirk Jan Struik was born in 1894 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.His father Hendrik Jan Struik was a grammar school teacher with a passion for mathematics and history. Nearly a century later when Dirk received a Kenneth O. May Medal, he began his acceptance speech with a tribute to Hendrik for cultivating his son's appetite for knowledge. [4]
ICM virtual library of science (Polish journals and monographs) — Polish language site; Mathematical Gazetteer of the British Isles information about where mathematicians were born, lived, worked, died, or are buried or commemorated. Published by The British Society for the History of Mathematics.
Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC) is important in the history of mathematics for inspiring and guiding others. [50] His Platonic Academy, in Athens, became the mathematical center of the world in the 4th century BC, and it was from this school that the leading mathematicians of the day, such as Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 390 - c. 340 BC), came. [51]
The book received mixed reviews from critics. Herbert Blumer commended Wolf for writing "a very notable contribution to the history of science." [10] The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science contributor A. C. Crombie described A History of Science as "an invaluable source of information", [11] while C. W. G. of The Mathematical Gazette admitted to being "impressed by the wide reading ...
The history of science is often seen as a linear story of progress [27] but historians have come to see the story as more complex. [28] [29] [30] Alfred Edward Taylor has characterised lean periods in the advance of scientific discovery as "periodical bankruptcies of science". [31] Science is a human activity, and scientific contributions have ...
[8] [9] Islamic mathematics, in turn, developed and expanded the mathematics known to these civilizations. [10] Contemporaneous with but independent of these traditions were the mathematics developed by the Maya civilization of Mexico and Central America, where the concept of zero was given a standard symbol in Maya numerals.
By studying clay tablets, he discovered that the ancient Babylonians knew much more about mathematics and astronomy than had been previously realized. The National Academy of Sciences has called Neugebauer "the most original and productive scholar of the history of the exact sciences, perhaps of the history of science, of our age."