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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bos, Henk
• Mehrtens, Herbert
• Schneider, Ivo

Titel

Introduction

Ist Teil von

• Social History of Nineteenth Century Mathematics, p.199-201

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The three articles in this section raise the issue of social influences upon the concepts and methods of mathematics itself. In doing so they point to new modes of understanding and explaining developments of the internal structure of mathematics — developments which until now have been understood almost exclusively in terms of the internal logic of mathematical development.