G: Preprints etc. which have not or not yet given rise to a proper publication

 

  A

Books.

  B

Articles in periodicals. 

  C

Articles in Festschriften, proceedings-volumes and other anthologies.

  D

Articles in encyclopediae and encyclopaedic works. 

  E

Book reviews.

  F

Lecture notes and teaching compendia.

 

 

G:1

“Bidrag til analyse af skolefaget matematik, med visse konklusioner angående læreruddannelsen på RUC. En foreløbig skitse”. Arbejdspapir til planlægningen af RUC's matematiklæreruddannelse, december 1973. Republished pp. 41–86 in Rushåndbog 1974. København: Det Naturvidenskabelige Hovedområde ved Københavns Universitet, 1974.

 

G:2

“On Some Implications of a Piagetian Theory of Intelligence for Mathematics Education”. Institut for Økonomi, Politik og Administration, Roskilde Universitetscenter. Skriftserie 1976 nr. 5.

 

G:3

Metodologi, normer og forskningsstyring. Oplæg til filosofisk konktaktmøde d. 3.–4. december 1977. Institut for Økonomi, Politik og Administration, Roskilde Universitetscenter. Skriftserie 1977 nr. 10.

 

G:4

”Krigsøkonomien og det tekniske og videnskabelige fremskridt”. Mimeo, Roskilde Universitetscenter, april 1980.

G:5

Wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt durch Rüstung. (Deutsche Bearbeitung [of G:4]: Bernhelm Booß). Mimeo, Roskilde Universitetscenter, 1980.

G:6

“Oldbabylonisk algebra og geometrisk heuristik. En undersøgelse af en uventet begrebsverden”. Roskilde: Roskilde Universitetscenter, Institut for Uddannelsesforskning, Medieforskning og Videnskabsteori, 1982.

 

G:7

(ed., trans., commentary), G. A. Melikichvili, “Til spørgsmålet om de ældste klassesamfunds karakter”. Mimeo, Roskilde Universitetscenter, Institut for Uddannelsesforskning, Medieforskning og Videnskabsteori, February 1983.

 

G:8

“Om fredsforskning som tværvidenskab og om fredsforskning på RUC”. Mimeo, Roskilde Universitetscenter, Institut for Uddannelsesforskning, Medieforskning og Videnskabsteori, February 1983.

 

G:9

with Bernhelm Booss-Bavnbek. “On Mathematics and War. An Essay on the Implications, Past and Present, of the Military Involvement of the Mathematical Sciences for Their Development and Potentials.” Draft Translation and Revision [of A:4] by Jens Høyrup. Sixth International Congress on Mathematical Education, Fifth Special Day on Mathematics, Education, and Society, Budapest, July 31, 1988. Roskilde: Roskilde University Centre, Institute of Educational Research, Media Studies and Theory of Science, 1988. Included in A:10.

 

G:10

“Platonism or Archimedism: On the Ideology and Self-Imposed Model of Renaissance Mathematicians (1400 to 1600)”. Beitrag zum Kurs Renaissance-Philosophie und neuzeitliches Denken III: Die klassischen Interpretationen im Lichte der modernen Forschung. Preprint, Roskilde Universitetscenter, September 1, 1990. Croatian publication in B:26. Included in A:10.

 

G:11

“Sub‑scientific Mathematics: Undercurrents and Missing Links in the Mathematical Technology of the Hellenistic and Roman World”. Filosofi og videnskabsteori på Roskilde Universitetscenter. 3. Række: Preprints og Reprints 1990 nr. 3. Forthcoming in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, II vol. 37,3 (if that volume should ever happen to appear!). Manuscript.

 

G:12

“Mathematics and Early State Formation, or, the Janus Face of Early Mesopotamian Mathematics: Bureaucratic Tool and Expression of Scribal Professional Autonomy”. Revised contribution to the symposium «Mathematics and the State», XVIIIth International Congress of History of Science, Hamburg/Munich, 1st–9th August 1989. Filosofi og videnskabsteori på Roskilde Universitetscenter. 3. Række: Preprints og Reprints 1991 nr. 2. Included in A:10.

 

G:13

“The Antecedents of Algebra”. Filosofi og Videnskabsteori på Roskilde Universitetscenter. 3. Række: Preprints og Reprints 1994 Nr. 1. Contribution to Encyclopedia on the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, vol. II, ed. Alejandro Garciadiego. Forthcoming?

 

G:15

On the Mensuration of the Liber mensurationum. Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Preprint 13 (1995).

G:17

VAT. LAT. 4826: Jacopo da Firenze, Tractatus algorismi. Preliminary transcription of the manuscript, with occasional commentaries”. Filosofi og Videnskabsteori på Roskilde Universitetscenter. 3. Række: Preprints og Reprints 1999 Nr. 3.

 

G:18

“Embedding: Multi-purpose Device for Understanding Mathematics and Its Development, or Empty Generalization?” Filosofi og Videnskabsteori på Roskilde Universitetscenter. 3. Række: Preprints og Reprints 2000 Nr. 8. Forthcoming in the proceedings of IX Congreso de la Asociación Española de Semiótica Humanidades, ciencia y tecnologia, Valencia, 30 noviembre – 2 de diciembre 2000.

 

G:20

“Early Mesopotamia: A Statal Society Shaped by and Shaping Its Mathematics”. Contribution au colloque “Les Mathematiques et l'état”, Cirm-Luminy, 15 octobre–19 octobre 2001. Mimeo, Roskilde University, October 2001.

 

G:21

“Was Babylonian Mathematics Created by `Babylonian Mathematicians´?”. Paper presented to 4. Internationales Kolloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft «Wissenskultur im Alten Orient», (Münster/Westf. 20.–22.2.‌‌2002). Mimeo, Roskilde University, 14.2.2002. Forthcoming in the proceedings.

 

G:22

“L'Algèbre de Jacopo de Florence: un défi à l'historiographie de l'algèbre presque-moderne”. Contribution au 7ème colloque maghrébin d'histoire des mathématiques arabes, Marrakech, 30 mai au 1er juin 2002. Mimeo, 28 May, 2002.

 

G:23

“Practitioners – School Teachers – ‘Mathematicians’: the Divisions of Pre-Modern Mathematics and Its Actors”. Contribution to the conference “Writing and Rewriting the History of Science 1900–2000”, Les Treilles, 5–11 September 2003. Mimeo, September 2003.

 

G:24

The rare traces of constructional procedures in `practical geometries´. Filosofi og Videnskabsteori på Roskilde Universitetscenter. 3. Række: Preprints og Reprints 2006 Nr. 2.

 

G:26

Jacopo da Firenze, Tractatus algorismi: An edition of the manuscript Milan, Trivulziana MS 90,
collated with Florence, Riccardiana MS 2236
. Filosofi og Videnskabsteori på Roskilde Universitetscenter. 3. Række: Preprints og Reprints 2007 Nr. 2.

 

G:29

 

 

Über den italienischen Hintergrund der Rechenmeister-Mathematik. Beitrag zur Tagung Die Rechenmeister in der Renaissance und der frühen Neuzeit. Stand der Forschung und Perspektiven”, München, Deutsches Museum, 29. Februar 2008. Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Preprint 349.  http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Preprints/P349.PDF . With a correction on p. 35.

 

G:31

Proportions in the Liber abbaci”. Contribution to the proceedings of the meeting Proportions : Arts – Architecture – Musique – Mathématiques – Sciences ”, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, 30 June to 4 July, 2008. Brepols does not allow web diffusion of the preprint, but if you need it you may ask for it by email (jensh@ruc.dk).

 

G:32

 

Proportions in and around the Italian Abbacus Tradition. Contribution to the meeting Proportions : Arts – Architecture – Musique – Mathématiques – Sciences ”, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, 30 June to 4 July, 2008. Forthcoming in Physis 46 (2009).

 

G:33

 

“Forgetting, celebrating and reconstructing past science. Contribution to the meeting Despre uitare : Forme ale rememorarii ”, Bucureêti, 15–16.05.2009.

 

G:36

 

 

“Old Babylonian ‘Algebra’, and What It Teaches Us about Possible Kinds of Mathematics”. Contribution to the ICM Satellite Conference Mathematics in Ancient Times, Kerala School of Mathematics, Kozhikode, 29 August  –  1 September 2010. Preprint, 8 September 2010.

 

G:38

 

 

“As the Outsider Walked In: The Historiography of Mesopotamian Mathematics Until Neugebauer”. Paper presented to the conference “Otto Neugebauer between History and Practice of the Exact Sciences”, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, November 12–13, 2010. Preprint, 17 November 2010 ”.

 

G:39

 

 

“Fibonacci – Protagonist or Witness? Who Taught Catholic Christian Europe about Mediterranean Commercial Arithmetic?”. Paper presented at the workshop “Borders and Gates or Open Spaces? Knowledge Cultures in the Mediterranean During the 14th and 15th Centuries”. Preprint, 26 December 2010 ”.

 

G:40

 

 

The Fifteenth-Seventeenth Century Transformation of Abbacus Algebra: Perhaps – Though Not Thought of by Edgar Zilsel and Joseph
Needham – the Best Illustration of the ‘Zilsel-Needham thesis’
. Summer School on the History of Algebra, Institute for the History of the Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, 1–2 September 2011. Preprint, 17 September 2011.
 

:G:41

 

 

Explicit and less explicit algorithmic thinking, 1200–1500: Jordanus de Nemore, and the contrast between Barthélemy de Romans et Chuquet. Contribution to the workshop Pratiques algorithmiques dans les mathématiques pré-modernes, Université de Lille 3, 12-14 octobre 2011. Preprint, 18 October 2011.
 

G:42

 

History of Mathematics Education in the European Middle Ages, written for Gert Schubring & Alexander Karp (eds), Handbook on History of Mathematics Education. Preprint, 16 May 2012.
 

 
 

 

 

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