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(2009)

Towards a Digital Mathematics Library. Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, July 8-9th, 2009

Teaching activities of Jan Mařík

Jiří Veselý (1996)

Mathematica Bohemica

This paper contains a biography of the late Jan Marik and a description of his teaching activities and methods.

Textes & documents - A new source for medieval mathematics in the iberian peninsula: the commercial arithmetic in Ms 10106 (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid)

Javier Docampo Rey (2009)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

This paper contains a critical edition of a short commercial arithmetic written in Castilian (ca. 1400). The manuscript has certain characteristic features, like the presence of composite fractions, that distinguishes it from other known treatises of the Iberian peninsula. The document appears to improve considerably our knowledge of the origins and the transmission of vernacular commercial arithmetic in Europe.

Textes & documents - Opposition to the boycott of german mathematics in the early 1920s: letters by Edmund Landau (1877–1938) and Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964)

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (2011)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

This paper, through the publication of two of their letters, sheds light on the political positions of two influential mathematicians of the first half of the 20th century, the German Edmund Landau and the American Edwin Bidwell Wilson. It provides substantial evidence for the widespread rejection of the political boycott of German mathematics not only by the Germans but also by the community of American mathematicians in the early 1920s.

The Area and the Side I Added: Some old Babylonian Geometry

Duncan J. Melville (2005)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

There was a standard procedure in Mesopotamia for solving quadratic problems involving lengths and areas of squares. In this paper, we show, by means of an example from Susa, how area constants were used to reduce problems involving other geometrical figures to the standard form.

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