Loren Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loren Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loren |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Science and the Soviet Social Order
Soft" Area Studies versus "Hard" Social Science: A False Opposition
Much criticism of area studies has come from social scientists, some of whom consider area studies to be "soft," emphasizing description and culture, while social science is "hard," emphasizing mathematics, rigor, and replicability. Loren Graham, an area studies specialist, and Jean-Michel Kantor, a mathematician, maintain that this contrast is simplistic and undervalues area studies. They show that an area studies approach can help understand, n…
A Comparison of Two Cultural Approaches to Mathematics: France and Russia, 1890-1930
Many people would like to know where scientific ideas come from and how they arise. In the case of mathematics, new ideas often come in the form of new “mathematical objects”: groups, vector spaces, sets, etc. Some people think these new objects are invented, others that they are discovered. By exploring the birth of descriptive set theory in France and Russia in the period 1890–1930 we show that the leading French mathematicians worked within a …
Eloges
Science, Technology, and Ecopolitics in the USSR
News of the Profession
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The Origins and Developments of Systems Thinking in the Soviet Union: Political and Philosophical Controversies from Bogdanov and Bukharin to Present-Day Re-Evaluations
Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories
Biomedicine and the Politics of Science in the USSR
Why Can't History Dance Contemporary Ballet? or Whig History and the Evils of Contemporary Dance
Problema preryvnosti i nepreryvnosti prostranstva i vremeni (The Problem of Discontinuity and Continuity in Space and Time) . M. D. Akhundov
Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki (Problems of the History of Science and Technology)
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938
The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party, 1927-1932
Istoriia kristallografii v Rossii . I. I. Shafranovskii
Einshtein (Einstein) . B. G. Kuznetsov
Soft" Area Studies versus "Hard" Social Science: A False Opposition
Much criticism of area studies has come from social scientists, some of whom consider area studies to be "soft," emphasizing description and culture, while social science is "hard," emphasizing mathematics, rigor, and replicability. Loren Graham, an area studies specialist, and Jean-Michel Kantor, a mathematician, maintain that this contrast is simplistic and undervalues area studies. They show that an area studies approach can help understand, n…
Why Can't History Dance Contemporary Ballet? or Whig History and the Evils of Contemporary Dance
Eloges
Istoriia kristallografii v Rossii . I. I. Shafranovskii
Einshtein (Einstein) . B. G. Kuznetsov
The Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Communist Party, 1927-1932
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938
Problema preryvnosti i nepreryvnosti prostranstva i vremeni (The Problem of Discontinuity and Continuity in Space and Time) . M. D. Akhundov
Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki (Problems of the History of Science and Technology)
Biomedicine and the Politics of Science in the USSR
Why Can't History Dance Contemporary Ballet? or Whig History and the Evils of Contemporary Dance
Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories
The Origins and Developments of Systems Thinking in the Soviet Union: Political and Philosophical Controversies from Bogdanov and Bukharin to Present-Day Re-Evaluations
News of the Profession
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Science, Technology, and Ecopolitics in the USSR
Eloges
A Comparison of Two Cultural Approaches to Mathematics: France and Russia, 1890-1930
Many people would like to know where scientific ideas come from and how they arise. In the case of mathematics, new ideas often come in the form of new “mathematical objects”: groups, vector spaces, sets, etc. Some people think these new objects are invented, others that they are discovered. By exploring the birth of descriptive set theory in France and Russia in the period 1890–1930 we show that the leading French mathematicians worked within a …
Soft" Area Studies versus "Hard" Social Science: A False Opposition
Much criticism of area studies has come from social scientists, some of whom consider area studies to be "soft," emphasizing description and culture, while social science is "hard," emphasizing mathematics, rigor, and replicability. Loren Graham, an area studies specialist, and Jean-Michel Kantor, a mathematician, maintain that this contrast is simplistic and undervalues area studies. They show that an area studies approach can help understand, n…
Science and the Soviet Social Order
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