Karl Marx and Mathematics

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Pradip Baksi translator and editor of the first Bengali and English editions of these manuscripts (1994) and, of some texts of Rammohun Roy (1998), and of Karl Marx (1999) on India.

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This collection is the revised edition of the Special Supplement to Karl Marx, Mathematical Manuscripts (1994; Calcutta: Viswakos) titled Marx and Mathematics.
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1. Introduction, 20192. Introduction, 1994

Part One: History
EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS 3. Marx to Engels: 11 January 1858, 6 July 1863 4. Engels to F.A. Lange: 29 March 1865 5. Marx to Engels: 31 May 1873 6. Engels to Marx:18 August 1881, 21 November 1882 7. Marx to Engels: 22 November 1882
EXCERPTS FROM REMINISCENCES

8. Engels': Speech at Marx's funeral, 17 March 1883 9. Preface to the second edition of Anti-Dühring, 23 September 1885, Paul Lafargue: 1890 10. A note on the history of collecting, deciphering, editing and publication of Marx's 11. Mathematical Manuscripts, 1994 - Pradip Baksi 12. Notes to references in the preceding pages
   BIBLIOGRAPHY
9. Different editions of Karl Marx's Mathematical Manuscripts 14. Books and articles on Karl Marx's Mathematical Manuscripts 15. Additions to the Bibliography 16. Emil Julius Gumbel (1891-1966): The first editor of the Mathematical Manuscripts of Karl Marx - Annette Vogt
   Part Two: Investigations
10. The Concept of Differential according to Marx and Hadamard 17. Marx's "Mathematical Manuscripts" and development of history of mathematics
    in the USSR 18. On the logical apparatus working in Karl Marx's Capital and Mathematical Manuscripts 19. On the problem of situating Marx's mathematical manuscripts in the history of ideas 20. The differential calculus, mathematicians and economists in the nineteenth century:
    Part Three: Plural Mathematics
11. Mathematics and its history in retrospective 22. Nonstandard analysis and the history of classical analysis 22. The new structural approach in mathematics and some of its methodological problems 23. Reflections on seven themes of philosophy of mathematics 24. Emergence and development of the concept of constructivisability in mathematics 25. Appendices: Two Bibliographies 26. Appendix I. A bibliography on Hegel and mathematics 27. Appendix II. A bibliography on mathematics and semiotics