Artículo
Gauss and the Mathematical Background to Standardisation
Autor/es | Ferreirós Domínguez, José Manuel |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filosofía y Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia |
Fecha de publicación | 2020 |
Fecha de depósito | 2020-08-24 |
Publicado en |
|
Resumen | Our aim is to explore the links between standardisation, the quantifying spirit, and the discipline mathematics. To do so, we consider the work of Gauss, renowned as a pure mathematician, but professionally an astronomer, ... Our aim is to explore the links between standardisation, the quantifying spirit, and the discipline mathematics. To do so, we consider the work of Gauss, renowned as a pure mathematician, but professionally an astronomer, and one heavily engaged with all kinds of measuring and precision initiatives. He contributed to the mathematical correction of data with the method of least squares; to observations of high precision in his geodetic work; to the introduction of absolute measures in his collaborations with Weber on terrestrial magnetism; and to the rationalisation of weights and measures in the state of Hannover. Ultimately, the question is to what extent such precision and standardisation activities may have been rooted in the mathematical way of thinking. Mathematics in our tradition has had a strong contemplative bias (theory, "theorein" in Greek means to contemplate), but it’s a fact that mathematics has always had a non-eliminable technical side. |
Agencias financiadoras | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO). España |
Identificador del proyecto | FFI2017-84524-P
P12-HUM-1216 |
Cita | Ferreirós Domínguez, J.M. (2020). Gauss and the Mathematical Background to Standardisation. HoST : Journal of History of Science and Technology, 14 (1), 32-51. |
Ficheros | Tamaño | Formato | Ver | Descripción |
---|---|---|---|---|
gauss_ferreiros.pdf | 398.8Kb | [PDF] | Ver/ | |
Este registro aparece en las siguientes colecciones
Este documento está protegido por los derechos de propiedad intelectual e industrial. Sin perjuicio de las exenciones legales existentes, queda prohibida su reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública o transformación sin la autorización del titular de los derechos, a menos que se indique lo contrario.