{"title":"Awarding the Montucla Prize for 2021","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"56 ","pages":"Pages 4-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.hm.2021.08.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48337034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
June Barrow-Green (Chair of the Executive Committee of the ICHM 2017–2021)
{"title":"Awarding of the May Prizes for 2021","authors":"June Barrow-Green (Chair of the Executive Committee of the ICHM 2017–2021)","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"56 ","pages":"Pages 1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.hm.2021.08.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43700768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The chords theorem recalled to life at the turn of the eighteenth century","authors":"Andrea Del Centina, Alessandra Fiocca","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper is a historical account of the chords theorem, for conic sections from Apollonius to Boscovich. We comment the most significant proofs and applications, focusing on Newton's solution of the Pappus four lines problem. Newton's geometrical achievements drew L'Hospital's attention to the chords theorem as a fundamental one, and led him to search for a simple and direct proof, that he finally obtained by the method of projection. Stirling gave a very elegant algebraic proof; then Boscovich succeeded in finding an almost immediate geometrical proof, and showed how to develop the elements of conic sections starting from this theorem.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"56 ","pages":"Pages 6-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.hm.2021.03.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43318826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Francesco G. Tricomi's heritage: Archive and miscellany","authors":"Erika Luciano","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>After providing a summarised biographical and scientific profile of F.G. Tricomi, we describe the structure and contents of his archive and miscellany, which jointly represent a documentary heritage of great historical importance, as well as one of the major patrimonies of the Department of Mathematics ‘G. Peano’ at the University of Turin.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"56 ","pages":"Pages 73-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.hm.2021.05.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42990627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ways of counting in Micronesia","authors":"Andrea Bender, Sieghard Beller","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In many languages in Micronesia, clever ways of extending their counting systems to numbers far beyond imagination were developed in precolonial times. Here, we provide an exhaustive overview of these systems, highlight their characteristics, and account for some of their most intriguing features. Based on a critical assessment of the available data and the in-depth analysis of both paradigmatic cases and peculiarities, we draw inferences about some more general patterns that suggest a rather long tradition of specific ways of counting both in Micronesia and the area beyond.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"56 ","pages":"Pages 40-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.hm.2021.04.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47023403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Edinburgh Mathematical Laboratory and Edmund Taylor Whittaker's role in the early development of numerical analysis in Britain","authors":"Alison Maidment","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2020.09.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2020.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In 1912, Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873–1956) was appointed to the Chair of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. The following year he opened the Edinburgh Mathematical Laboratory. The purpose of the Laboratory was practical instruction in topics which are now classed together as numerical analysis.</p><p>In this article I explore the inspiration, purpose, and impact of the Laboratory in the context of early 20th century British applied mathematics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"55 ","pages":"Pages 39-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.hm.2020.09.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45089162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On resolving singularities of plane curves via a theorem attributed to Alfred Clebsch","authors":"David E. Rowe","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper discusses a theorem in birational geometry that J.L. Coolidge attributed to Alfred Clebsch. The background is reconstructed from letters Felix Klein exchanged with Max Noether in 1894, when Noether was completing work on a lengthy report with Alexander Brill on the history of algebraic functions. Noether was deeply troubled to learn that Klein had informed him back in 1869 about relevant results that Clebsch and Leopold Kronecker had discussed in Berlin. These exchanges with Klein led to revisions in the Brill-Noether report, made in part to ensure Noether's own priority rights and larger intellectual legacy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"55 ","pages":"Pages 23-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.hm.2021.02.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41492471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “Circolo Matematico di Palermo” and the First World War: The crisis of scientific internationalism: a view through the unedited correspondence of De Franchis with Edmund Landau and other mathematicians","authors":"Cinzia Cerroni, Aldo Brigaglia","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.04.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2021.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this work the situation of the “Circolo Matematico di Palermo” between 1914 and 1928 is analyzed. It will be observed that during this time the Circolo was among the few European scientific associations with German as well as French associates. During the 1930s, the nationalist politics of Fascism and above all the racial laws dealt a deadly blow to the Circolo as an international scientific association. We will use the rich correspondence in the Circolo's archives to shed some light on this. In particular, the correspondence between M. De Franchis and E. Landau and other recently found documents will figure prominently.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"55 ","pages":"Pages 64-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.hm.2021.04.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"99370382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}