Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Reactionary Mathematics
Author: Massimo MazzottiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226826732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenomena. The nineteenth century opened with a major shift in European mathematics, and in the Kingdom of Naples, this occurred earlier than elsewhere. Between 1790 and 1830 its leading scientific institutions rejected as untrustworthy the “very modern mathematics” of French analysis and in its place consolidated, legitimated, and put to work a different mathematical culture. The Neapolitan mathematical resistance was a complete reorientation of mathematical practice. Over the unrestricted manipulation and application of algebraic algorithms, Neapolitan mathematicians called for a return to Greek-style geometry and the preeminence of pure mathematics. For all their apparent backwardness, Massimo Mazzotti explains, they were arguing for what would become crucial features of modern mathematics: its voluntary restriction through a new kind of rigor and discipline, and the complete disconnection of mathematical truth from the empirical world—in other words, its purity. The Neapolitans, Mazzotti argues, were reacting to the widespread use of mathematical analysis in social and political arguments: theirs was a reactionary mathematics that aimed to technically refute the revolutionary mathematics of the Jacobins. During the Restoration, the expert groups in the service of the modern administrative state reaffirmed the role of pure mathematics as the foundation of a newly rigorous mathematics, which was now conceived as a neutral tool for modernization. What Mazzotti’s penetrating history shows us in vivid detail is that producing mathematical knowledge was equally about producing certain forms of social, political, and economic order.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British MuseumCatalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
A Short Title Catalogue of Eighteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Catalogue of the Dante Collection Presented by Willard Fiske: Works on Dante (H-Z). Supplement. Indexes. Appendix
Author: Willard FiskeCatalogue of the Dante Collection Presented by Willard Fiske
Author: Cornell University. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description