''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 History of mathematical notation, mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples ...

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. Ev ...

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 December 29, 1944, Santa Monica, California, Santa Monica) is a Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He obtained his PhD f ...

(1977–1985) *

Eberhard Knobloch Eberhard Knobloch (born 6 November 1943) is a German historian of science and historian of mathematics, mathematics. Career Knobloch was born in Görlitz. From 1962 to 1967 he studied classics and mathematics at FU Berlin and Technische Uni ...

(1985–1994) * David E. Rowe (1994–1996) * Karen Hunger Parshall (1996–2000) * Craig Fraser and Umberto Bottazzini (2000–2004) * Craig Fraser (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 Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (2016–present)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

Mathematical Reviews ''Mathematical Reviews'' is a journal published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) that contains brief synopses, and in some cases evaluations, of many articles in mathematics, statistics, and theoretical computer science. The AMS also pu ...

, SCISEARCH, 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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