2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research of the popular and practical mathematics in the eighteenth-century Britain
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15500658
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology/History of science and technology
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
MIURA Nobuo Kobe University, Faculty of Cross-cultural Studies, 国際文化学部, 教授 (20219588)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Keywords | history of mathematics / mathematical instrument / mensuration / practical mathematics |
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| Research Abstract |
Thee were about twenty or thirty thousands of mathematical lovers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth-century Britain. They are called Philomath. France, Germany, or the other European countries had not such people. There are some reasons why mathematics was so popular in Britain in that time. After the advent of new printing press in London, many mathematical books or magazines were published, and there were many itinerary lecturers on mathematics anywhere in Britain. The contemporary navigation, mensuration and industry socially needed practical mathematics. Mathematics became popular among women as a recreation. There was a social network of mathematics, a kind of public-sphere, through a magazine, the Ladies Diary, in Britain. Mathematics of Philomath was not advanced Newtonian, but practical. They produced various mathematical instruments : English ones are inexpensive, while French are luxury and decorated.
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[Book] 基礎数学2005
Author(s)
三浦伸夫(他3名)
Publisher
実教出版(秋出版予定)
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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