The beginning of the history of mathematics on different international scenes and the case of the Encyclopedia project by Felix Klein and Jules Molk.

DOI10.1006/HMAT.1999.2260MaRDI QIDQ1969913zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hélène Gispert

Publication date 30 January 2001

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/hmat.1999.2260

zbMATH Keywords

Encyklopädie der mathematischen WissenschaftenEncyklopédie des sciences mathématiques pures et appliquéesFelix KleininternationalizationJules Molk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematics at institutions and academies (non-university) (01A74) Historiography (01A85)

Review text

History of mathematics was a subject for the first international conferences of mathematics as well as of philosophy and history. Unfortunately, this did not last very long. History of mathematics also played a role in the ``Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik and in the ``Enzyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften, initiated by Felix Klein, published from 1898 onwards. The different volumes allow an impression of the different accesses applied by the authors. Klein's original idea of a volume ``mathematics as a part of the cultural life had to be abandoned. The historical view was also present in the French edition of the ``Encyklopädie, for which Jules Molk was responsible. Molk was a collaborator of Paul Tannery. As a consequence several contributions were not merely translated but historically completed and actualized.

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