Leo Corry The Cohn Institute for History
and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
Tel-Aviv University,
Ramat Aviv, 69978, Israel
   
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Publications - History & Phil of Mathematics
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"Distributivity-like Results in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements: Between Geometry and Arithmetic", Mathesis Ser. V, Vol. 1 (2), (Jul. Dec. 2016).

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"Some distributivity-like results in the the medieval arithmetic of Jordanus Nemorarius and Campanus de Novara", Historia Mathematica 43 (2016), 310–331. (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2016.06.001)

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"Geometry and Arithmetic in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements: a View from Book II", Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 67(6) (2013): 637-705


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"How Useful is the Term ‘Modernism’ for Understanding the History of Early Twentieth-Century Mathematics?", Unpublished Manuscript - Forthcoming


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"Writing the Ultimate Mathematical Textbook: Nicolas Bourbaki’s Éléments de mathématique", in Eleanor Robson et al (eds.) Handbook of the History of Mathematics, Oxford, Oxford University Press (Forthcoming)

 


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"Calculating the Limits of Poetic License: Fictional Narrative and the History of Mathematics", Configurations 15 (3) (2007), 195-226. (German translation: "Berechnungen zur Grenze der poetischen Freiheit. Fiktionales Erzählen und die Geschichte der Mathematik", in Andrea Albrecht et al (eds.) Zahlen, Zeichen und Figuren Mathematische Inspirationen in Kunst und Literatur, Berlin: De Gruyter (2011), pp. 564-599. )

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"The Development of the Idea of Proof up to 1900". In: Tim Gowers (ed.) The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Princeton, Princeton University Press, (2008), 129-142

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"Axiomatics between Hilbert and the New Math: Diverging Views on Mathematical Research and their Consequences on Education", International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education 2 (2): (2007): 21-37


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"FLT Meets SWAC: Vandiver, the Lehmers, Computers and Number Theory", IEEE - Annals of the History of Computing 30 (1) (2008): 38-49


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"A Clash of Mathematical Titans in Austin: Robert Lee Moore and Harry Schultz Vandiver (1924-1974)”, Mathematical Intelligencer 29 (4), 62-74 (2007)


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"El Teorema de Fermat y sus Historias", Gaceta de la Real Sociedad Matemática Española 9 (2), 387-424 (2006).

Landmark Writings In Western Mathematics, 1640-1940, Amsterdam, Elsevier Science. (Forthcoming 2005)
Associate Editor - (with Ivor Grattan-Guinness - Editor in Chief).

New Studies in the History of Modern Mathematics, Editor for a Special Issue of Science in Context, Spring 2004, Cambridge University Press.

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"The History of Modern Mathematics – Writing and Re-Writing", Science in Context 17 (1-2) (2004), 1-21.

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"Jewish Mathematicians in Göttingen (1895-1933)" (Hebrew), Zmanim - Quarterly Journal of History, Tel-Aviv, 66: 91-101
מתמטיקאים יהודיים בגטינגן: 1895-1933 זמנים , 66: 91-101.

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"The Origins of Eternal Truth in Modern Mathematics: Hilbert to Bourbaki and Beyond", Science in Context, 12: 137-183 (1998).

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“Paradigms and Images in the History of Mathematics” in E. Ausejo and M. Hormigon (eds). Paradigms and Mathematics, Madrid, Siglo XXI (1996): 169-192.

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“La Teoría de las Proporciones de Eudoxio Vista por Dedekind”, Mathesis10: 35-68 (1994).

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“Kuhnian Issues, Scientific Revolutions and the History of Mathematics”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 24: 95-117 (1993)

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“Nicolas Bourbaki and the Concept of Mathematical Structure”, Synthese 92: 315-348 (1992) (Also available in French translation)

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“Reflexive Thinking in Mathematics: Formal and Non-formal Aspects”, in A. Diez et al (eds.) Proceedings of the Symposium on Structures in Mathematical Theories, San Sebastian (1990): 383-389.

“Linearity and Reflexivity in the Growth of Mathematical Knowledge” Science in Context 3: 409-440 (1989).