Studying appropriations of past lives: using metabiographical approaches in the history of mathematics

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Acknowledgments

This paper is based on an invited lecture at the conference ‘Mathematical Biography: A MacTutor Celebration’, St Andrews University, September 2016. The author is grateful for the discussions at this meeting and at invited presentations in the ‘Seminar SAW: Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World’, Paris, May 2016 and the ‘27th Novembertagung: History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice’, Sandbjerg, November 2016.

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