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MATHEMATICA
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Umberto Bottazzini is Associate Professor of History of Mathematics at the University of Bologna. His main research area is the history of 19th-century mathematics, particularly real and complex analysis and related topics. Among his recent publications are The Higher Calculus: A History of Real and Complex Analysis from Euler to Weierstrass (Springer, 1986) as well as 28 chapters on the history of mathematics and logic in the newly published Storia della scienza moderna e contemporanea, edited by P. Rossi (Utet, 1988). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics (IUHPS/IMU). He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Archive for History
of Exact Sciences.
Sonja Brentjes is a collaborator at the Karl-Sudhoff-Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin und Naturwissenschaften of the Karl-Marx-University, Leipzig, GDR. Her research interests include the history of Islamic mathematics, and women in science in Germany and the Third World of the 19th and 20th centuries. Menso Folkerts is Chairman of the Institute for History of Science at the LudwigMaximilians-Universitat, Munich (FRG). His main research field is the history of mathematics in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He is preparing a catalog of mathematical texts in Western manuscripts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Stefano Francesconi is studying mathematics
at the University
of Bologna.
Charles C. Gillispie is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He also held the Chaire d’Histoire des Sciences of the Fondation de France, 1980-1982 and 1985-1987, and taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography and is the author of The Edge of Objectivity (1960) and Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime (1980), among other works. Jan P. Hogendijk is a member of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. His research interests include the history of geometry in antiquity and the Middle Ages. Yasukatsu Maeyama works at the Institute for History of Sciences, University Frankfurt. His recent publications concern the history of astronomy.
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Erwin Neuenschwander is Privatdozent for the History of Mathematics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is currently engaged in a research project to 406 03150860/89
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produce a new biography of Bernhard Riemann on Greek and 19th-century mathematics.
and has published
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several papers
Walter W. Piegorsch is a mathematical statistician with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. in statistics at the Biometrics Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. His areas of research include confidence region construction in regression analysis and the historical development of statistical thought as prompted by problems in the biological sciences. A recent publication in the latter area, in which he reviewed the controversy over Gregor Mendel’s 19th-century experiments with the garden pea, appeared in History of Science (24 (1986), 173-182). Roshdi Rashed a acquis la Doctorat d’Etat de l’universite de Paris et est Directeur de Recherche au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris). Parmi ses livres ¢s est Sharaf al-Din al-Tiisi, Oeuvres Mathe’matiques-AlgPbre et Gkume’trie au XIIPme sikle, I et 11, 1986 (Paris, Les Belles Lettres). II prepare actuellement l’edition, la traduction et l’analyse de I’oeuvre mathematique d’Ibn al-Haytham (a paraitre aux Belles Lettres). Karin Reich is Professor of History of Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart and Professor of History of Natural Sciences and Technology at the Fachhochschule fur Bibliothekswesen, Stuttgart. Her main research interests are the history of modern mathematics and astronomy. She has published articles and books on the history of differential geometry and on Gauss. Erhard Scholz is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, University of Wuppertal (FRG). His main interests are the history of mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular the relationship between theoretical mathematics and applications, modern geometry, topology, groups, crystallography, physics, and also philosophical influences. Christoph J. Scriba is Professor of the History of Science at the Institut fur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Technik of the University of Hamburg, and was Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the 18th International Congress of History of Science, which was held in Hamburg and Munich on August l-8, 1989. Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze holds a DrSc. degree and specializes in the history of mathematics (19th and 20th centuries). He is a Wissenschaftlicher Oberassistent.
MATHEMATICA
16 (1989),
406-407
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Umberto Bottazzini is Associate Professor of History of Mathematics at the University of Bologna. His main research area is the history of 19th-century mathematics, particularly real and complex analysis and related topics. Among his recent publications are The Higher Calculus: A History of Real and Complex Analysis from Euler to Weierstrass (Springer, 1986) as well as 28 chapters on the history of mathematics and logic in the newly published Storia della scienza moderna e contemporanea, edited by P. Rossi (Utet, 1988). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics (IUHPS/IMU). He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Archive for History
of Exact Sciences.
Sonja Brentjes is a collaborator at the Karl-Sudhoff-Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin und Naturwissenschaften of the Karl-Marx-University, Leipzig, GDR. Her research interests include the history of Islamic mathematics, and women in science in Germany and the Third World of the 19th and 20th centuries. Menso Folkerts is Chairman of the Institute for History of Science at the LudwigMaximilians-Universitat, Munich (FRG). His main research field is the history of mathematics in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He is preparing a catalog of mathematical texts in Western manuscripts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Stefano Francesconi is studying mathematics
at the University
of Bologna.
Charles C. Gillispie is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He also held the Chaire d’Histoire des Sciences of the Fondation de France, 1980-1982 and 1985-1987, and taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography and is the author of The Edge of Objectivity (1960) and Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime (1980), among other works. Jan P. Hogendijk is a member of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. His research interests include the history of geometry in antiquity and the Middle Ages. Yasukatsu Maeyama works at the Institute for History of Sciences, University Frankfurt. His recent publications concern the history of astronomy.
of
Erwin Neuenschwander is Privatdozent for the History of Mathematics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is currently engaged in a research project to 406 03150860/89
$3.00
Copyright 0 1989 by Academic Press, Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.
HM
16
NOTES
ON CONTRIBUTORS
produce a new biography of Bernhard Riemann on Greek and 19th-century mathematics.
and has published
407
several papers
Walter W. Piegorsch is a mathematical statistician with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. in statistics at the Biometrics Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. His areas of research include confidence region construction in regression analysis and the historical development of statistical thought as prompted by problems in the biological sciences. A recent publication in the latter area, in which he reviewed the controversy over Gregor Mendel’s 19th-century experiments with the garden pea, appeared in History of Science (24 (1986), 173-182). Roshdi Rashed a acquis la Doctorat d’Etat de l’universite de Paris et est Directeur de Recherche au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris). Parmi ses livres ¢s est Sharaf al-Din al-Tiisi, Oeuvres Mathe’matiques-AlgPbre et Gkume’trie au XIIPme sikle, I et 11, 1986 (Paris, Les Belles Lettres). II prepare actuellement l’edition, la traduction et l’analyse de I’oeuvre mathematique d’Ibn al-Haytham (a paraitre aux Belles Lettres). Karin Reich is Professor of History of Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart and Professor of History of Natural Sciences and Technology at the Fachhochschule fur Bibliothekswesen, Stuttgart. Her main research interests are the history of modern mathematics and astronomy. She has published articles and books on the history of differential geometry and on Gauss. Erhard Scholz is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, University of Wuppertal (FRG). His main interests are the history of mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular the relationship between theoretical mathematics and applications, modern geometry, topology, groups, crystallography, physics, and also philosophical influences. Christoph J. Scriba is Professor of the History of Science at the Institut fur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Technik of the University of Hamburg, and was Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the 18th International Congress of History of Science, which was held in Hamburg and Munich on August l-8, 1989. Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze holds a DrSc. degree and specializes in the history of mathematics (19th and 20th centuries). He is a Wissenschaftlicher Oberassistent.