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(2018) Research in history and philosophy of mathematics, Basel, Birkhäuser.
New evidence suggests that David Rittenhouse (1732–1796) may have been a more mathematically sophisticated scientist than has previously been thought. Based on his correspondence with Jefferson, some of the scratch work in his diary, and a new examination of some of the mathematical literature known to have passed through his hands as Librarian of the American Philosophical Society (APS), Rittenhouse's mathematical papers appear in a different light.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90983-7_5
Full citation:
Alexander, M. W. (2018)., What mathematics Rittenhouse knew, in M. Zack & D. Schlimm (eds.), Research in history and philosophy of mathematics, Basel, Birkhäuser, pp. 69-89.