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 …

During the first decade of its existence, the American Mathematical Monthly regularly
published short biographies of mathematicians. When read as appropriations of past lives …

Introduction Biographies of mathematicians may be written for any number of more or less
explicitly stated reasons: The biographer might have the ambition to present …

Matematikhistorie er et fascinerende interdisciplinært felt, som trækker forbindelser både til
matematik, historie og videnskabsteori. Som sådan har feltet opnået en egen akademisk …

It was in 1881 that Mittag-Leffler first wrote to Henri Poincaré, soon after Hermite had called
his attention to this talented young mathematician, who had just finished his doctoral thesis …

In this volume, we show through detailed case studies, how the historiography of
mathematics has been influenced by the contexts and motivations of its practitioners. 1 The …