- See Grattan-Guinness I. Does History of Science treat of the history of science? The case of mathematics History of Science 1990 28 147 173 (p. 158), where the world-wide non-contact with historians of science is considered. This paper was written for a conference held in the USA on current trends in the history of science, but was rejected from the proceedings.
- Dubbey , J.M. 1970 . The Development of Modern Mathematics London, Butterworth
- Pepper spoke on Thomas Harriot, in whose memory a plaque was, coincidentally, unveiled at the Bank of England the same evening. On both events, see Nature 1971 233 78 79
- A summary version of this lecture was published by Temple Measurement from Gauss to Whitehead Nature 1972 237 492 494
- See the special issue of the journal For the learning of mathematics June 1991 11 2
- Hay , C. , ed. 1988 . Mathematics from Manuscript to Print , Oxford : Clarendon Press .
- See Grattan-Guinness I. Mathematics, mechanics and astronomy: Newton (1687), Lagrange (1788), Poincaré (1889) Historia mathematica 1988 15 165 170 and ‘From Fourier to fractals’, Historia mathematica, 17 (1990), 263–67
- See Does History of Science treat of the history of science? The case of mathematics History of Science 1990 28 158 158 the general considerations of the next two Sections are also discussed there in more detail.
- For some considerations of these issues, see Revolutions in Mathematics Gillies D. Clarendon Press Oxford 1992 or I. Grattan-Guinness, ‘Scientific revolutions as convolutions? A sceptical enquiry’, in S. S. Demidov, M. Folkerts, D. E. Rowe, and C. J. Scriba, editors, Amphora. Festschrift für Hans Wussing zu seinem 65. Geburtstag (Basel, Birkhäuser, 1992), pp. 279–87.
- National societies for the history of mathematics have been formed in Canada in 1974 (also covering the philosophy of mathematics, and publishing a Newsletter), and in India in 1978 (with a journal Ghanita Bharati
- A considerable number of people and some équipes work on the subject in Paris, where the Cahiers duséminaire d‘histoire des mathématiques is published; meetings on it take place from time to time at the mathematics conference centre near Marseille. The corresponding venue in the Federal Republic of Germany, at Oberwolfach, reserves a week for it about once every two years, interspersed with some smallgroup workshops recently, and the German Mathematicians‘ Association now has a History section, partly because of the absorption of the corresponding society of the former German Democratic Republic, where the subject was very well developed. In Mexico a group publishes the journal Mathesis, which is especially concerned in the history of foundational questions. No comparable situations exist in Britain. See also the next footnote.
- A word of praise is in order here for the new Italian bimonthly magazine on mathematics and its history, Lettera Pristem (the latter word is the acronym of a study group), which treats BSHM events prominently. The subject also appears occasionally in the similar publication Informazione filosofiche. The Italian Mathematical Society has sponsored since 1980 a research journal, the Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Mathematiche.
- Quotation from a recent letter from Dubbey.
- This appealing analogy is due to Tony Crilly, to whom the Society owes a special debt for his services both as Secretary and Treasurer.
- It is symptomatic that the only university chairs in the subject have been the personal ones awarded to G. J. Whitrow in London, and D. T. Whiteside in Cambridge—and neither in History Faculties.
- The Leverhulme Foundation has recently awarded to the OU Group a grant for a three-year study of British mathematical activity between 1860 and 1940.
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