Mathematics and the Historian's Craft: The Kenneth O. May Lectures [Paperback]

The Kenneth May Lectures have never before been published in book form

Important contributions to the history of mathematics by well-known historians of science

Should appeal to a wide audience due to its subject area and accessibility

Preface.- Introduction: The Birth and Growth of a Community by Amy Shell-Gellasch.- History or Heritage? An Important Distinction in Mathematics and for Mathematics Education, by Ivor Grattan-Guinness.- Ptolemys Mathematical Models and their Meaning, by Alexander Jones.- Mathematics, Instruments and Navigation, 1600-1800, by Jim Bennett.- Was Newtons Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurins Treatise of Fluxions, byJudith V. Grabiner.- The Mathematics and Science of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), by Ruediger Thiele.- Mathematics in Canada before 1945: A Preliminary Survey by Thomas Archibald and Louis Charbonneau.- The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community, by Karen Hunger Parshall.- 19th Century Logic Between Philosophy and Mathematics, by Volker Peckhaus.- The Battle for Cantorian Set Theory, by Joseph W. Dauben.- Hilbert and his Twenty-Four Problems, by Ruediger Thiele.- Turing and the Origins of AI, by Stuart Shanker.- Mathematics and Gender: Some Cross-Cultural Observations, by Ann Hibner Koblitz.

From the reviews:

The full set of Kenneth O. May Lectures given at the Annual meetings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics since 1988, are presented in this volume as a tribute to Kenneth May & . The essays, varying greatly in nature as well as scope, concern themes of interest to the Society & . this book contains a lot of interesting material besides: there is something for just about every one, not just specialists in the History of Mathematics. Recommended! (Michael Berg, MathDL  Online, April, 2006)

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