Matematika v Polsku, její rozvoj a triumfy
Text je věnován návštěvám slavných světových matematiků v proslulých českých lázních Karlovy Vary. Je založen na informacích ze seznamů lázeňských hostů a na dochované korespondenci.
The article discusses several examples of power struggles in Nazi Germany’s mathematical community. Among them are the fate of German participation in J.E.L. Brouwer’s journal Compositio mathematica in 1934/35. Ludwig Bieberbach put an end to this participation for political reasons. Special attention is paid to developments in the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV), above all to the presidency of Wilhelm Süss in the years 1937 to 1945. The pre-war years of his presidency were overshadowed...
This note suggests that a fruitful way of investigating the history of mathematics lies in consideration of its pedagogical purposes. As a general illustration of the directions that such an approach might take, the paper discusses early-modern arguments for the practical utility of mathematics and its capacity to inculcate good habits of thought, as well as the appearance of new uses for mathematical training in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that served the purpose of the...
Publishing in Mathematics and theoretical areas in Computer Science and Physics has been predominantly using TeX/LaTeX as a formatting language in the last two decades. This large corpus of born-digital material is both a boon — LaTeX is semi-semantic format where the source often contains indications of the author’s intentions — and a problem — TeX is Turing-complete and authors use this freedom to use thousands of styles and millions of user macros. Several tools have been developed to convert...