``A valuable monument of mathematical genius'': The Ladies' Diary(1704-1840)
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instance of: scholarly article
title: ``A valuable monument of mathematical genius'': The Ladies' Diary(1704-1840)
zbMATH Open document ID: 1163.01014
author: Joe Albree
author: Scott H. Brown
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 2009-03-25T00:00:00Z
review text: The paper views the mathematical contribution of \textit{The Ladies' Diary} (1704-1840) as a whole and emphasizes the leading role played by the magazine in the early development of British mathematical periodicals. In the beginning of the eighteenth century, there were no journals dedicated entirely to mathematics. \textit{The Diary}, starting in 1708, presented a variety of mathematical problems and their solutions to a wide audience of not necessarily mathematically-oriented readers for over 130 years. The purpose of the paper is two-fold. Firstly, the authors follow the year-to-year performance of the mathematical part of \textit{The Diary} and discuss representative samples of mathematical problems published in the magazine. Secondly, they position \textit{The Diary} in each of the British mathematical and scientific environments as they moved through the years of its existence dividing \textit{The Diary's} tenure into the four periods.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A90
zbMATH DE Number: 5532930
zbMATH Keywords: bibliographic studies
zbMATH Keywords: The Ladies' Diary
zbMATH Keywords: mathematical problems
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: j.hm.2008.09.005
OpenAlex ID: W2021613259
Wikidata QID: Q56442178
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DOI: 10.1016/J.HM.2008.09.005
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5532930