The history of the Russian study of Chinese astronomy
A short history of Russian researches in Chinese astronomy in 19-20 centuries
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Galina Sinkevich
Publications and source records attributed to Galina Sinkevich.
Historia matheseos. Early development stage history of mathematics, historiography
This article focuses on evolvement of the history of mathematics as a science and development of its methodology from the 4th century B.C. to the age of Enlightenment.
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On the history of nested intervals: from Archimedes to Cantor
The idea of the principle of nested intervals or the concept of convergent sequences which is equivalent to this idea dates back to the ancient world. Archimedes calculated the unknown in excess and deficiency, approximating with two sets of values: ambient and nested values. Buridan came up with a concept of a point lying within a sequence of nested intervals. Fermat, Gregory, Newton, MacLaurin, Gauss,and Fourier used to search for an unknown value with the help of approximation in excess and deficiency. In the 19-th century, in works of Bolzano, Cauchy, Lejeune Dirichlet, Weierstrass, and Cantor, this logical construction turned into the analysis argumentation method. The concept of a real number was elaborated in the 1870-s in works of Meray, Weierstrass, Heine, Cantor, and Dedekind. Cantor elaboration was based on the notion of a limiting point and principle of nested intervals. What we are going to consider now, is the genesis of this idea which dates back to the ancient world.
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Karl Weierstrass Bicentenary
Academic biography of Karl Weierstrass, his basic works, influence of his doctrine on the development of mathematics.
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Rolle Theorem and Bolzano-Cauchy Theorem from the end of the 17th century to K. Weierstrass epoch
A history of two Rolle Theorems, about the root of derivative and about root interval from 1690 till the end of XIX century.
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On the History of Number Line
The notion of number line was formed in XX c. We consider the generation of this conception in works by M. Stiefel (1544), Galilei (1633), Euler (1748), Lambert (1766), Bolzano (1830-1834), Meray (1869-1872), Cantor (1872), Dedekind (1872), Heine (1872) and Weierstrass (1861-1885).
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The Fate of Russian Translations of Cantor
This is the history of translating Cantor's works into Russian from 1892 to 1985 in Odessa, Moscow, Tomsk, Kazan, S.-Petersburg, Leningrad. Mathematicians and philosophers in Russia took the ideas of the theory of sets enthusiastically. Such renowned scholars and scientists as Timchenko, Shatunovsky, Vasiliev, Florensky, Mlodzeevsky, Nekrasov, Zhegalkin, Yushkevich Sr., Fet, Yushkevich Jr., Kolmogorov, and Medvedev took part in their popularisation. In 1970 Academician Pontryagin rated the theory of sets as useless for young mathematicians, and the translated works of Cantor were not published. This article first describes the tragic fate of this translation.
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