Bernard Bolzano -- Not as unknown to his contemporaries as is commonly believed?
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Bernard Bolzano -- Not as unknown to his contemporaries as is commonly believed?
zbMATH Open document ID: 0768.01008
author: Gert Schubring
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 1993-05-16T00:00:00Z
review text: The author reports an important finding in the literature of Bolzano's time: a long review of 1821 of three of his recent book(let)s on mathematics, including the (now) famous one of 1817 on the intermediate value theorem. The author was one J. J. I. Hoffmann, a mathematician from Southern Germany; the main parts of his review, which is quite competent, are reproduced. It appeared in the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur- Zeitung, a known type of publication in Germany at that time but now usually ignored by historians. Some basic questions of historiography are exemplified by this find.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 26-03
zbMATH DE Number: 168474
zbMATH Keywords: intermediate value theorem
reviewed by: Ivor Grattan-Guinness
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: hmat.1993.1005
OpenAlex ID: W2071357330
cites work: Bolzano, Cauchy and the ``New Analysis'' of the early nineteenth century
cites work: Q5617618
cites work: Q3250566
cites work: Q4058955
DOI: 10.1006/HMAT.1993.1005
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 168474