Who linked Hegel's philosophy with the history of mathematics? Hint: he also gave the Steiner surface its name

DOI10.1007/s00283-013-9409-1zbMath1284.01035OpenAlexW2054518653MaRDI QIDQ393486

David E. Rowe

Publication date: 23 January 2014

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-013-9409-1

zbMATH Keywords

Ernst Eduard KummerGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelJakob SteinerKarl WeierstrassRoman surfaceSteiner surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of algebraic geometry (14-03) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of geometry (51-03)

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• Mathematical models as artefacts for research: Felix Klein and the case of Kummer surfaces
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