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Book Reactionary Mathematics

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  • Author : Massimo Mazzotti
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2023-05-12
  • ISBN : 0226826740
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Reactionary Mathematics written by Massimo Mazzotti and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenomena. The nineteenth century opened with a major shift in European mathematics, and in the Kingdom of Naples, this occurred earlier than elsewhere. Between 1790 and 1830 its leading scientific institutions rejected as untrustworthy the “very modern mathematics” of French analysis and in its place consolidated, legitimated, and put to work a different mathematical culture. The Neapolitan mathematical resistance was a complete reorientation of mathematical practice. Over the unrestricted manipulation and application of algebraic algorithms, Neapolitan mathematicians called for a return to Greek-style geometry and the preeminence of pure mathematics. For all their apparent backwardness, Massimo Mazzotti explains, they were arguing for what would become crucial features of modern mathematics: its voluntary restriction through a new kind of rigor and discipline, and the complete disconnection of mathematical truth from the empirical world—in other words, its purity. The Neapolitans, Mazzotti argues, were reacting to the widespread use of mathematical analysis in social and political arguments: theirs was a reactionary mathematics that aimed to technically refute the revolutionary mathematics of the Jacobins. Reactionaries targeted the modern administrative monarchy and its technocratic ambitions, and their mathematical critique questioned the legitimacy of analysis as deployed by expert groups, such as engineers and statisticians. What Mazzotti’s penetrating history shows us in vivid detail is that producing mathematical knowledge was equally about producing certain forms of social, political, and economic order.

Book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics written by Eleanor Robson and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook explores the history of mathematics, addressing what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. 36 self-contained chapters provide a fascinating overview of 5000 years of mathematics and its key cultures for academics in mathematics, historians of science, and general historians.

Book Tentativo di un progetto di necessaria riforma per la pubblica instruzione nel Regno di Napoli pubblicato nel 1820 e dopo dodici anni riveduto dall autore per riprodurlo con nuove sue importanti osservazioni

Download or read book Tentativo di un progetto di necessaria riforma per la pubblica instruzione nel Regno di Napoli pubblicato nel 1820 e dopo dodici anni riveduto dall autore per riprodurlo con nuove sue importanti osservazioni written by Vincenzo Flauti and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Universities

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  • Author : Mordechai Feingold
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2002-09-12
  • ISBN : 9780199256365
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book History of Universities written by Mordechai Feingold and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume XVII of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

Book Pensieri sull istruzione pubblica a  nostri tempi applicati al Regno di Napoli da servir d introduzione al progetto di riforma per essa pubblicato nel 1820 da un nostro professore

Download or read book Pensieri sull istruzione pubblica a nostri tempi applicati al Regno di Napoli da servir d introduzione al progetto di riforma per essa pubblicato nel 1820 da un nostro professore written by Vincenzo Flauti and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pensieri su la istruzione pubblica a  nostri tempi applicati al Regno di Napoli da servire d introduzione al progetto di riforma per essa pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1820

Download or read book Pensieri su la istruzione pubblica a nostri tempi applicati al Regno di Napoli da servire d introduzione al progetto di riforma per essa pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1820 written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rapporto a S E  il ministro dell interno sullo stato attuale dell istruzione pubblica nel regno di Napoli del direttore generale della medesima del cav  Matteo Galdi

Download or read book Rapporto a S E il ministro dell interno sullo stato attuale dell istruzione pubblica nel regno di Napoli del direttore generale della medesima del cav Matteo Galdi written by Napoli : Direzione generale di pubblica istruzione and published by . This book was released on with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Italienische Malerei im 19  Jahrhundert

Download or read book Italienische Malerei im 19 Jahrhundert written by Martina Hansmann and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Africa

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  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 748 pages

Download or read book Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boundaries of Europe

Download or read book The Boundaries of Europe written by Pietro Rossi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe’s boundaries have mainly been shaped by cultural, religious, and political conceptions rather than by geography. This volume of bilingual essays from renowned European scholars outlines the transformation of Europe’s boundaries from the fall of the ancient world to the age of decolonization, or the end of the explicit endeavor to “Europeanize” the world.From the decline of the Roman Empire to the polycentrism of today’s world, the essays span such aspects as the confrontation of Christian Europe with Islam and the changing role of the Mediterranean from “mare nostrum” to a frontier between nations. Scandinavia, eastern Europe and the Atlantic are also analyzed as boundaries in the context of exploration, migratory movements, cultural exchanges, and war. The Boundaries of Europe, edited by Pietro Rossi, is the first installment in the ALLEA book series Discourses on Intellectual Europe, which seeks to explore the question of an intrinsic or quintessential European identity in light of the rising skepticism towards Europe as an integrated cultural and intellectual region.

Book Handbook on Restorative Justice Programmes

Download or read book Handbook on Restorative Justice Programmes written by Yvon Dandurand and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present handbook offers, in a quick reference format, an overview of key considerations in the implementation of participatory responses to crime based on a restorative justice approach. Its focus is on a range of measures and programmes, inspired by restorative justice values, that are flexible in their adaptation to criminal justice systems and that complement them while taking into account varying legal, social and cultural circumstances. It was prepared for the use of criminal justice officials, non-governmental organizations and community groups who are working together to improve current responses to crime and conflict in their community

Book The Sinews of Power

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  • Author : John Brewer
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780674809307
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book The Sinews of Power written by John Brewer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Brewer provides a new framework for understanding Britain's emergence in the eighteenth century as a major international power. Warfare and taxes reshaped the English economy, but at the heart of these dramatic changes lay a tension between the nation's aspirations to be a major power and fear of the domestic consequences: the loss of liberty.