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

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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 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 editors 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 expert ...

, 1977–1985 * Eberhard Knobloch, 1985–1994 * David E. Rowe, 1994–1996 * Karen Hunger Parshall, 1996–2000 *

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and Umberto Bottazzini, 2000–2004 *

, 2004–2007 * Benno van Dalen, 2007–2009 * June Barrow-Green and Niccolò Guicciardini, 2010–2013 * Niccolò Guicciardini and Tom Archibald, 2013-2015 * Tom Archibald and

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, 2016–present

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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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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