Quo Vadis -- history of mathematics?

DOI10.1007/BF03024348MaRDI QIDQ1345641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Detlef D. Spalt

Publication date 12 June 1995

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024348

zbMATH Keywords

lack of refereeing control

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics and mathematicians (01A99)

Review text

Apparently `history of mathematics today has no topics and no methodological standards', but where `anything goes'. Yes, indeed.

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