TY - CHAP
T1 - How Useful Is the Term ‘Modernism’ for Understanding the History of Early Twentieth-Century Mathematics?
AU - Corry, Leo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The present article is intended as a critical assessment of some basic assumptions underlying the analysis of modernism in mathematics in its relationship with the broader aspects of cultural modernism, especially in the period 1890–1930. It discusses the potential historiographical gains of approaching the history of mathematics in the periods under such a perspective and suggests that a fruitful analysis of the phenomenon of modernism in mathematics must focus not on the common features of mathematics and other contemporary cultural trends, but rather on the common historical processes that led to the dominant approaches in all fields.
AB - The present article is intended as a critical assessment of some basic assumptions underlying the analysis of modernism in mathematics in its relationship with the broader aspects of cultural modernism, especially in the period 1890–1930. It discusses the potential historiographical gains of approaching the history of mathematics in the periods under such a perspective and suggests that a fruitful analysis of the phenomenon of modernism in mathematics must focus not on the common features of mathematics and other contemporary cultural trends, but rather on the common historical processes that led to the dominant approaches in all fields.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85179301067&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-40855-7_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-40855-7_16
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AN - SCOPUS:85179301067
T3 - Archimedes
SP - 393
EP - 423
BT - Archimedes
PB - Springer Nature
ER -