This book examines the historically unique conditions under which the International Congress of Mathematicians took place in Oslo in 1936. This Congress was the only one on …
Abstract Distributions in Postwar Mathematics examines the intertwined histories of French mathematician Laurent Schwartz's theory of distributions and the American-hosted 1950 …
HK Sørensen - Historia Mathematica, 2014 - Elsevier
The present paper analyses the confluence of agendas held by Danish mathematicians and German refugees from Nazi oppression as they unfolded and shaped the mathematical …
The merger of various Nordic mathematical journals in 1953 into Mathematica Scandinavica (for research) and into Nordisk Matematisk Tidsskrift (for the more elementary topics, from …
N Michel - The Richness of the History of Mathematics: A Tribute …, 2023 - Springer
This chapter explores the epistemology of geometry expounded by Danish mathematician Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen towards the end of his career. Zeuthen's views, a defense and …
LE Turner - European Mathematical Society Magazine, 2023 - ems.press
The 29th Nordic Congress of Mathematicians (NCM) will be held in Aalborg, Denmark, in July 2023, under the auspices of the Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish …
The custom of organizing international congresses of mathematicians was inaugurated in Zurich in 1897, though some historians date this tradition back to a mathematical gathering …
SP Weldon, JA STEWART, JS BUSS, S RATOWT… - Isis, 2012 - academia.edu
The Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science was begun in 1913 by the historian of science George Sarton as part of his new journal Isis. It seeks to provide, each year, a …