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Epistemologies of the Living between 1900 and 1960
“We suspect that, to do mathematics, it would suffice that we be angels. But to do biology, even with the aid of intelligence, we sometimes need to fe
Conditional Inequalities: American Pure and Applied Mathematics from the Cold War to the Present
In her dissertation project, Alma Steingart tracked the development of the American mathematical community in the decades following World War II. Math
Commentaries on Mathematical Texts in a Comparative Perspective
Commentaries from many cultures and scholarly fields have been edited and studied increasingly over the past years, from a variety of perspectives, ab
Working Group Participants, Karine Chemla, SPHERE, Université Paris VII CNRS, Workshops 2017, Commentaries Workshop, August 1–15, 2017
Institutskolloquium | Apr 24, 2018 | 14:00 to 16:00
Medieval Computus: Three Arguments for its Significance to Historians of Science
MoreInstitute's Colloquium | Apr 24, 2018 | 14:00 to 16:00
Medieval Computus: Three Arguments for its Significance to Historians of Science
MoreCarl Stumpf and the Principles of Experimental Phenomenology: Historical and Theoretical Foundations
Charles-Edouard Niveleau's work aims to rediscover the historical (although forgotten) roots of the phenomenological movement that appeared through a
Mathematical Practices in Early Modern India
While the origin of technological and mechanical knowledge in important societal practices appears obvious, it is less so in the case of mathematics.
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The project, launched by the French Institute of Pondicherry, the ETH Zurich, and the MPIWG, aims at a social history of mathematical practices situat
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An important aspect of the project is the identification and preservation of the huge corpus of relevant extant vernacular sources spread all over Ind
Bourgeois Berlin and Laboratory Science
Laboratory science, in the modern sense of laboratory teaching and research carried on at universities, only came into existence in the first half of