''Historia Mathematica: International Journal of History of Mathematics'' is an

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on the

history of mathematics The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments ...

published by

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. It was established by Kenneth O. May in 1971 as the free newsletter ''Notae de Historia Mathematica'', but by its sixth issue in 1974 had turned into a full journal. The

International Commission on the History of Mathematics The International Commission on the History of Mathematics was established in 1971 to promote the study of history of mathematics. Kenneth O. May provided its initial impetus. In 1974, its official journal Historia Mathematica began publishing. E ...

began awarding the Montucla Prize, for the best article by an early career scholar in ''Historia Mathematica'', in 2009. The award is given every four years.

Editors

The

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of the journal have been: * Kenneth O. May, 1974–1977 *

Joseph W. Dauben Joseph Warren Dauben (born 29 December 1944, Santa Monica) is a Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University. His fields of expertis ...

, 1977–1985 *

Eberhard Knobloch Eberhard Knobloch (born 6 November 1943, in Görlitz) is a German historian of science and mathematics. Career From 1962 to 1967 Knobloch studied classics and mathematics at the University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin, a ...

, 1985–1994 *

David E. Rowe David E. Rowe (born August 11, 1950) is an American mathematician and historian. He studied mathematics and the history of science at the University of Oklahoma, and took a second doctorate in history at the Graduate Center of the City Univers ...

, 1994–1996 *

Karen Hunger Parshall Karen Hunger Parshall (born 1955, Virginia; ''née'' Karen Virginia Hunger) is an American historian of mathematics. She is the Commonwealth Professor of History and Mathematics at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment in the Corcor ...

, 1996–2000 * Craig Fraser and

Umberto Bottazzini Umberto Bottazzini (born 1947 in Viadana, Lombardy) is an Italian historian of mathematics, writing on the history of mathematics and the foundations of mathematics. Biography Bottazzini graduated in 1973 with the ''Laurea'' degree from the Univer ...

, 2000–2004 * Craig Fraser, 2004–2007 *

Benno van Dalen Benno may refer to: People Mononym * (927–940), saint * (1049–1061) *Benno I of Osnabrück (bishop, 1052–1067) *Benno of Meissen (bishop, 1066–1106), saint *Benno II of Osnabrück (bishop, 1068–1088) *Benno of Santi Martino e Silvestro ( ...

, 2007–2009 *

June Barrow-Green June Barrow-Green (born 1953) is a Professor of History of Mathematics at the Open University and a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Education Barrow-Green obtained a BSc Hons in Mathematics in 1986 and an MSc in Mathemat ...

and

Niccolò Guicciardini Niccolò Guicciardini Corsi Salviati (born 28 May 1957 in Firenze) is an Italian historian of mathematics. He is a professor at the University of Milan, and is known for his studies on the works of Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton (25 Dece ...

, 2010–2013 *

and

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, 2013-2015 *

and Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, 2016–present

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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, and

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References

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A Brief History of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics (ICHM)

External links

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