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‘Disturbed’ by Euclid: Thomas Fincke and the reading of Ramist mathematics in sixteenth-century Germany 被欧几里得“扰乱”:托马斯·芬克和16世纪德国的拉米斯数学阅读
IF 0.5 3区 哲学
Historia Mathematica Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2020.10.001
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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Hjelmslev's geometry of reality 海姆斯列夫的实在几何学
IF 0.5 3区 哲学
Historia Mathematica Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2020.08.003
Jesper Lützen
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Notes on contributors 贡献者说明
IF 0.5 3区 哲学
Historia Mathematica Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0315-0860(21)00017-3
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Francesco Carlini: Kepler's equation and the asymptotic solution to singular differential equations Francesco Carlini:开普勒方程和奇异微分方程的渐近解
IF 0.5 3区 哲学
Historia Mathematica Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2020.06.001
Andrea Sacchetti
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引用次数: 2
Probability and exams: The work of Antonio Bordoni 概率与考试:安东尼奥·博尔多尼的作品
IF 0.5 3区 哲学
Historia Mathematica Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2020.02.001
Riccardo Rosso
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引用次数: 1
W.F. Sheppard's correspondence with Karl Pearson and the development of his tables and moment estimates w·f·谢泼德与卡尔·皮尔森的通信以及他的表格和矩估计的发展
IF 0.5 3区 哲学
Historia Mathematica Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2020.06.002
Lori L. Murray , David R. Bellhouse
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Analytic and arithmetic methods in Liouville's identities 刘维尔恒等式的解析和算术方法
IF 0.5 3区 哲学
Historia Mathematica Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2020.06.003
Maria Rosaria Enea , Giovanni Ferraro
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A historical note on the 3/2-approximation algorithm for the metric traveling salesman problem 关于度量旅行商问题的3/2逼近算法的历史注释
IF 0.5 3区 哲学
Historia Mathematica Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2020.04.003
René van Bevern , Viktoriia A. Slugina
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引用次数: 30
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Historia Mathematica Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/S0315-0860(20)30087-2
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IF 0.5 3区 哲学
Historia Mathematica Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2020.01.003
Victor J. Katz
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