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Some remarks concerning reception of mathematics in Central-Eastern Europe
in the years 1850‒1920

Publication date: 19.09.2014

Technical Transactions, 2014, Fundamental Sciences Issue 1 NP (7) 2014, pp. 99 - 105

https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.14.061.2511

Authors

Roman Duda
Institute of Mathematics, University of Wrocław, Poland
Cracow University of Technology, Department of Thermal Power Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
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Some remarks concerning reception of mathematics in Central-Eastern Europe
in the years 1850‒1920

Abstract

In the flow of mathematical ideas from the West to Central-Eastern Europe one can distinguish several typical forms: 1) foreign mathematicians, invited to cultivate mathematics upon new ground (e.g. Euler in Russia); 2) domestic mathematicians who completed their studies abroad and continued research after returning home (e.g. W. Buniakowski or M. Ostrogradski in Russia); 3) domestic mathematicians who dared developing new directions, thus initiating original schools of mathematics (e.g. N. N. Lusin in Russia). A separate phenomenon was a startling discovery of non-euclidean geometry (N. N. Lobatchevsky in Russia, J. Bolyai in Hungary).

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Information: Technical Transactions, 2014, Fundamental Sciences Issue 1 NP (7) 2014, pp. 99 - 105

Article type: Original article

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Some remarks concerning reception of mathematics in Central-Eastern Europe
in the years 1850‒1920

English:

Some remarks concerning reception of mathematics in Central-Eastern Europe
in the years 1850‒1920

Authors

Institute of Mathematics, University of Wrocław, Poland

Cracow University of Technology, Department of Thermal Power Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Published at: 19.09.2014

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