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A Tale of Three Cities: Thebes, Babylon, and Alexandria
The interface of the “scientific tradition” of mathematics with the traditions of American elementary education has grown in the past 200 years with...
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Map** Philosophy: Peirce’s Quincuncial Projection
From very early on in his career both as a scientist and as a philosopher, Peirce paid close attention to the role played in cognition by maps. For...
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The Survey of the Ballistic Imprints for a Renewed Image of Unearthed Pompeii
The paper collects prior studies about the cavities in the northern portion of Pompeii’s fortification. The exceptional circumstances that...
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Meritocratism, Errors, and The Community of Inquiry
Charles Sanders Peirce was brought up in a family with two other mathematicians: his older brother James Mills and his father Benjamin. Benjamin...
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Computation in the Arthaśāstra
The Arthaśāstra () of Kauṭilya (ca. first century BCE-third century CE) is the most important source on state administration from classical India....
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A Tale of Three Cities: Thebes, Babylon, and Alexandria
The interface of the “scientific tradition” of mathematics with the traditions of American elementary education has grown in the past 200 years with...
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The Impact of Political Decisions on Mathematics
This last chapter analyzes a selection of cases where political decisions affected, positively or not, the research and teaching of mathematics: the...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Analysis of modern circulation industry development level using industrial structure mechanism
This study focuses on China’s industrial transformation and urban income inequality. It is shown that between 2011 and 2020, improvements in China’s...
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Guido Castelnuovo and His Family
In this paper the importance is discussed of studying the direct influence of Guido Caselnuovo’s family environment in sha** his interests in...
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The Co-Video Mathematician
Many of my experiences during the pandemic and the response are probably similar to most. Some days I can’t see the differences from how it was...
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The History of “The Politics of Population” in the United States
The article documents some key events in the development of “statistics in the public interest” in the US federal statistical system since the...
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Mathematics Textbooks and the Gradual Decline in the Use of Middle- to Advanced-Level Abbaco Arithmetic 1607–1865
This chapter focuses on the influence of textbooks and textbook authors on the teaching and learning of middle- to more advanced-level abbaco...
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Ronald Ross and Hilda Hudson: A Collaboration on the Mathematical Theory of Epidemics
In 1916 Ronald Ross published the first of three papers entitled ‘An Application of the Theory of Probabilities to the Study of a priori Pathometry’,...
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Complex-scaled infinite elements for resonance problems in heterogeneous open systems
The technique of complex scaling for time harmonic wave-type equations relies on a complex coordinate stretching to generate exponentially decaying...
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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...