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The Life of Peter Wynn
Peter Wynn was born on 1 September 1931 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, England, 22 miles (35 km) north of London. In Brezinski and Redivo-Zaglia...
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Different Perspectives on Mathematics in North America 1607–1865
It would be unreasonable to expect the inhabitants of North America to have produced great works of mathematics—judging by European standards—during...
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Pre-College Geometry, Mensuration, Trigonometry, Surveying, and Navigation 1607–1865
This chapter analyzes pre-college education developments in geometry, mensuration, trigonometry, surveying, and navigation between 1607 and 1865, in...
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On Gegenbauer Point Processes on the Unit Interval
In this paper we compute the logarithmic energy of points in the unit interval [-1,1] chosen from different Gegenbauer Determinantal Point Processes....
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Peirce on Abduction and Diagrams in Mathematical Reasoning
Questions regarding the nature and acquisition of mathematical knowledge are perhaps as old as mathematical thinking itself, while fundamental issues...
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Anamorphosis: Between Perspective and Catoptrics
This essay is conceived in two parts: the first part deals with the perspectival and artistic work of the Minim Father Jean François Niceron...
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Vittorio Giorgini Spatiology–Morphology Architect
Impetuous, versatile, nonconformist Florentine architect Vittorio Giorgini (1926–2010), son of Giovan Battista, pioneer of Made in Italy around the...
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Explicit Expressions for Higher Order Binomial Convolutions of Numerical Sequences
We give explicit expressions for higher order binomial convolutions of sequences of numbers having a finite exponential generating function....
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The Mathematical Landscape up to the Mid-Twentieth Century
The aim of this chapter is to give a picture of the knowledge already acquired around the middle of the twentieth century in the areas that interest...
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Continuum and Atomism in Scholasticism
The Arabic realm quickly developed into a world empire of unprecedented size. To the East it extended to India and in the West large parts of Spain...
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College Mathematics, 1607–1865
Throughout the period 1607–1865 most families had very few books other than a Bible in their homes, and most people did not know much mathematics...
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Life of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan, the brilliant twentieth-century Indian mathematician, has been compared with all-time great Leonhard Euler, Carl Friedrich Gauss...
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Vitæ
In this chapter, we give an account of the life of the main contributors encountered during our exploration of the country of rational extrapolation...
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Teaching Descriptive Geometry in the United States (1817–1915): Circulation Among Military Engineers, Scholars, and Draftsmen
In the United States, descriptive geometry was a subject very few mathematicians, teachers, or engineers knew about before 1820. Most of them were...
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Anamorphosis: Between Perspective and Catoptrics
This essay is conceived in two parts: the first part deals with the perspectival and artistic work of the Minim Father Jean François Niceron...
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Writers
In order to frame the methods and concepts of stonecutting in their historical context, this chapter surveys the biographies of the most relevant...
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Serendipitous vs. systematic search for room-temperature superconductivity
This article summarizes the results from a decade of research which began following a serendipitous discovery and continued with a systematic,...
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Twenty-Sixth Colorado Mathematical Olympiad
Colorado Springs sophomore Alan Gardner wins gold
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Some Classical Problems in Random Geometry
This chapter is intended as a first introduction to selected topics in random geometry. It aims at showing how classical questions from recreational...