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How history of mathematics can help to face a crisis situation: the case of the polemic between Bernoulli and d’Alembert about the smallpox epidemic
In this article, I present the eighteenth century’s polemic of Bernoulli and d’Alembert concerning the smallpox epidemic and a prevention method called inoculation. Through an analysis of the polemic and the related resources, I show that this historical debate has various interests for mathematics...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8283094/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34934237 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10649-021-10077-6 |