Tikaram and Chandrakala Dhananjaya: A collaborative couple in mathematics from Nepal
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 13:100899. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100899. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWithin the history of mathematics and mathematics education in Nepal, Tikaram and Chandrakala Dhananjaya are relatively well-known figures for their two books Śiśubodha Taraṅgiṇī and Līlāvatī. This is despite there being almost no archival or manuscript materials offering a window into their lives: we have no letters, notebooks, diaries, or school records. Rather than focusing on either individual in isolation, in this article we present an argument for considering the Dhananjayas as an analytically indivisible coll...
Source: Endeavour - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Deepak Basyal Brigitte Stenhouse Source Type: research
Tikaram and Chandrakala Dhananjaya: A collaborative couple in mathematics from Nepal
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 13:100899. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100899. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWithin the history of mathematics and mathematics education in Nepal, Tikaram and Chandrakala Dhananjaya are relatively well-known figures for their two books Śiśubodha Taraṅgiṇī and Līlāvatī. This is despite there being almost no archival or manuscript materials offering a window into their lives: we have no letters, notebooks, diaries, or school records. Rather than focusing on either individual in isolation, in this article we present an argument for considering the Dhananjayas as an analytically indivisible coll...
Source: Endeavour - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Deepak Basyal Brigitte Stenhouse Source Type: research
Marrying the radical, the conventional, and the mystical: Mathematics, gender and religion in the lives of William Kingdon and Lucy Lane Clifford
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 12:100901. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100901. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe avowed atheist, evolutionary naturalist and mathematician William Kingdon Clifford is often remembered for his essay, "The Ethics of Belief," in which he opposed organized religion in any form. As a mathematician, Clifford was an early advocate of non-Euclidean geometry in England. Combining William Rowan Hamilton's work on quaternions with Hermann Grassmann's theory of linear extension, he invented an original system of geometric algebra. Breaking with conservative traditionalism in his philosophical and mathematical wor...
Source: Endeavour - December 13, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Sylvia M Nickerson Source Type: research
Constructing the "home-side" of a scientific legacy: Mary Everest Boole, pedagogy, and domesticity
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 10:100900. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100900. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe Victorian writer Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) developed an idiosyncratic pedagogical treatment of arithmetic, algebra, and logic. Her pedagogy favored active, child-directed learning, and is now generally admired as ahead of its time, though it must be deciphered through fairly eccentric delivery. A recurring theme in Mrs. Boole's prolific writing is the misunderstood legacy of her late husband, the renowned mathematician and logician George Boole (1815-1864). As existing literature has shown, she worked to promote a mo...
Source: Endeavour - December 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David E Dunning Source Type: research
Constructing the "home-side" of a scientific legacy: Mary Everest Boole, pedagogy, and domesticity
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 10:100900. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100900. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe Victorian writer Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) developed an idiosyncratic pedagogical treatment of arithmetic, algebra, and logic. Her pedagogy favored active, child-directed learning, and is now generally admired as ahead of its time, though it must be deciphered through fairly eccentric delivery. A recurring theme in Mrs. Boole's prolific writing is the misunderstood legacy of her late husband, the renowned mathematician and logician George Boole (1815-1864). As existing literature has shown, she worked to promote a mo...
Source: Endeavour - December 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David E Dunning Source Type: research
Constructing the "home-side" of a scientific legacy: Mary Everest Boole, pedagogy, and domesticity
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 10:100900. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100900. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe Victorian writer Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) developed an idiosyncratic pedagogical treatment of arithmetic, algebra, and logic. Her pedagogy favored active, child-directed learning, and is now generally admired as ahead of its time, though it must be deciphered through fairly eccentric delivery. A recurring theme in Mrs. Boole's prolific writing is the misunderstood legacy of her late husband, the renowned mathematician and logician George Boole (1815-1864). As existing literature has shown, she worked to promote a mo...
Source: Endeavour - December 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David E Dunning Source Type: research
Bringing the history of mathematics home: Entangled practices of domesticity, gender, and mathematical work
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 8:100902. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100902. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough much scholarship on nineteenth and twentieth century mathematics has focused on processes of professionalization, historical mathematicians themselves rarely experienced their lives as neatly divisible into the professional and the private. Taking marriage as a focal point, this introduction brings the fruitful historiography of gender, collaborative couples, and domesticity in science into a broader conversation with the history of mathematics. By historicizing marriage and its relationship to mathematical careers, w...
Source: Endeavour - December 9, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David E Dunning Brigitte Stenhouse Source Type: research
Bringing the history of mathematics home: Entangled practices of domesticity, gender, and mathematical work
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 8:100902. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100902. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough much scholarship on nineteenth and twentieth century mathematics has focused on processes of professionalization, historical mathematicians themselves rarely experienced their lives as neatly divisible into the professional and the private. Taking marriage as a focal point, this introduction brings the fruitful historiography of gender, collaborative couples, and domesticity in science into a broader conversation with the history of mathematics. By historicizing marriage and its relationship to mathematical careers, w...
Source: Endeavour - December 9, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David E Dunning Brigitte Stenhouse Source Type: research
History in the pub: The historiography of J.D. Wetherspoon
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 5;48(1):100889. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100889. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTJ. D. Wetherspoon is a popular pub chain in the United Kingdom. Despite its prominence in British cultural life and active and deliberate engagement with history, it has received scant academic attention. Here, this engagement with history is explored with a particular focus on how Wetherspoon approaches the history of science. This paper highlights the focus of Wetherspoon on local history and, in particular, on local exceptionalism, before discussing how such an understanding of history informs wider debates-such as We...
Source: Endeavour - December 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Nathan Smith Source Type: research
The problem and probability of marriage for alumnae in Progressive Era United States
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 5:100890. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100890. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhen Bryn Mawr College opened in 1885, then-president James Rhoads highlighted the precautions taken to ensure that the young women students would remain healthy, in reaction to the publicized warnings of Scottish physician Thomas S. Clouston, M.D. Dr. Clouston's concern that girls' higher education would damage their health epitomized a growing anxiety around the status of wives and mothers at a time of increased educational opportunities for the so-called 'fairer sex'. To counter these opinions, college alumnae and administr...
Source: Endeavour - December 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jemma Lorenat Source Type: research
"All manner of gymnastic evolutions" for science: Dorothea Klumpke (1861-1942) and a life in astronomical research
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 5:100888. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100888. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn this article, the extraordinary life of the astronomer Dorothea Klumpke (1861-1942) is described in detail for the first time, focussing on the four phases of her career, in which she researched various astronomical questions both as an amateur and as an employee of an observatory and as one half of a couple in science. For this reason, Klumpke's biography provides insights into the cornucopia of research approaches in astronomy at the time, in which professional and amateur astronomers explored the heavens in observatories...
Source: Endeavour - December 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Eva Kaufholz-Soldat Source Type: research
History in the pub: The historiography of J.D. Wetherspoon
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 5;48(1):100889. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100889. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTJ. D. Wetherspoon is a popular pub chain in the United Kingdom. Despite its prominence in British cultural life and active and deliberate engagement with history, it has received scant academic attention. Here, this engagement with history is explored with a particular focus on how Wetherspoon approaches the history of science. This paper highlights the focus of Wetherspoon on local history and, in particular, on local exceptionalism, before discussing how such an understanding of history informs wider debates-such as We...
Source: Endeavour - December 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Nathan Smith Source Type: research
The problem and probability of marriage for alumnae in Progressive Era United States
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 5:100890. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100890. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhen Bryn Mawr College opened in 1885, then-president James Rhoads highlighted the precautions taken to ensure that the young women students would remain healthy, in reaction to the publicized warnings of Scottish physician Thomas S. Clouston, M.D. Dr. Clouston's concern that girls' higher education would damage their health epitomized a growing anxiety around the status of wives and mothers at a time of increased educational opportunities for the so-called 'fairer sex'. To counter these opinions, college alumnae and administr...
Source: Endeavour - December 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jemma Lorenat Source Type: research
"All manner of gymnastic evolutions" for science: Dorothea Klumpke (1861-1942) and a life in astronomical research
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 5:100888. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100888. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn this article, the extraordinary life of the astronomer Dorothea Klumpke (1861-1942) is described in detail for the first time, focussing on the four phases of her career, in which she researched various astronomical questions both as an amateur and as an employee of an observatory and as one half of a couple in science. For this reason, Klumpke's biography provides insights into the cornucopia of research approaches in astronomy at the time, in which professional and amateur astronomers explored the heavens in observatories...
Source: Endeavour - December 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Eva Kaufholz-Soldat Source Type: research
History in the pub: The historiography of J.D. Wetherspoon
Endeavour. 2023 Dec 5;48(1):100889. doi: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2023.100889. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTJ. D. Wetherspoon is a popular pub chain in the United Kingdom. Despite its prominence in British cultural life and active and deliberate engagement with history, it has received scant academic attention. Here, this engagement with history is explored with a particular focus on how Wetherspoon approaches the history of science. This paper highlights the focus of Wetherspoon on local history and, in particular, on local exceptionalism, before discussing how such an understanding of history informs wider debates-such as We...
Source: Endeavour - December 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Nathan Smith Source Type: research
