Russian Translations and Translators of Western European works (XVIII - early twentieth century) devoted to the history of mathematics

Natalia Vasilievna Lokot

Antiquitates Mathematicae, Tome 2019 (2019).

Résumé

This work is a continuation of the author's presentation of the history of mathematics in Russia as a research area within the history of science (v. Lokot (2018)). The elements of the history of mathematics began to intensively emerge in the epoch of Peter the Great and have undergone several stages of development. There are five stages that Russian scientists have gone through, shaping the elements of research in the history of mathematics into the research area with its own subject, objectives and methods. This article continues the analysis of the first period, ie the stage of historical and scientific translations in the field of history of science. Chronologically, the translations of Western European works devoted to the history of mathematics have been analyzed, taking into account the personality of translators, who have relatively little space devoted to works on the history of mathematics.

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