Facetten der Mathematikgeschichte

Introduction: Writing the History of Mathematics.- Otto Toeplitz in Memory.- Aim and Method of the Exact Sciences.- Part I: People.- Otto Toeplitz in Memory.- About Leonhard Euler.- Who was Diophant?.- Hausdorff as a Measure Theorist.- Unequal Partners in Mathematics in the Third Reich": Heinrich Behnke and Wilhelm Süss.- Émilie du Châtelet (17061749) "Posterity will look at you with astonishment".- An incident Heinz Hopf faced in Karlsruhe in 1939.- A mathematician who cannot calculate? Carl Friedrich Gauss' caricature of Abraham Gotthelf Kästner.- Part II: Institutions.- Göttingen's High Times. Banach and the Lviv School of Functional Analysis.- Plato and Mathematics.- Schur's Zurich Lecture on Representation Theory.- Between Aestheticisation and Historicisation: The Collection of Geometric Models of the Göttingen Mathematical Institute.- Mathematical Models as Artefacts for Research: Felix Klein and the Case of Kummer Surfaces. Euclid in tiles: the mathematical azulejos of the Jesuit college in Coimbra.- Una tribus ratio: Iconography of knowledge transfer and self-representation of the Jesuits in the mathematics hall of the Santo Antão College in Lisbon.- Einmischung unerwünscht" Das Scheitern der Zusammenberufung der Topologen Herbert Seifert und William Threlfall an die Universität Frankfurt im Jahr 1939.- Die mutvoll Trotzigen": The first female mathematics students at the Royal Prussian University of Marburg.- Part III: Concepts, proofs, theorems.- Geometric constructions.- When does algebra begin?.- The problem of parabolic and hyperbolic quadrature through the ages.- The foundations of geometry at the turn of the 19th century.- On the history of the foundations of geometry.- On Mr Bottema's criticism.- On the history of the isoperimetric problem.- Hermann Grassmann's analysis in vector spaces.- The influence of Magnus on the work of Cremona.- A classical approach to the study of Archimedean four-dimensional polytopes.- Dido's problem.- The mathematisation of grain in ancient Egypt.