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Routes of learning : highways, pathways, and byways in the history of mathematics
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Routes of learning : highways, pathways, and byways in the history of mathematics

I. Grattan-Guinness

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Searching for reasons : my way in and onward
The mathematics of the past : distinguishing its history from our heritage
Decline, then recovery : an overview of activity in the history of mathematics during the twentieth century
On certain somewhat neglected features of the history of mathematics
General histories of mathematics? Of use? To whom?
Too mathematical for historians, too historical for mathematicians
History of science journals : "to be useful, and to the living"?
Scientific revolutions as convolutions? A skeptical inquiry
On the relevance of the history of mathematics to mathematical education
Achilles is still running
Numbers, magnitudes, ratios, and proportions in Euclid's Elements : how did he handle them?
Some neglected niches in the understanding and teaching of numbers and number systems
What was and what should be the calculus?
Manifestations of mathematics in and around the Christianities : some examples and issues
Christianity and mathematics : kinds of links, and the rare occurrences after 1750
Mozart 18, Beethoven 32 : hidden shadows of integers in classical music
Lagrange and Mozart as critics of Descartes
Four pretty but little-known theorems involving the triangle.

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Routes of learning : highways, pathways, and byways in the history of mathematics by I. Grattan-Guinness. ISBN 9780801892486. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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