title: History of mathematics and history of science reunited?
abstract: For some years now, the history of modern mathematics and the history of modern science have developed independently. A step toward a reunification that would benefit both disciplines could come about through a revived appreciation of mathematical practice. Detailed studies of what mathematicians actually do, whether local or broadly based, have often led in recent work to examinations of the social, cultural, and national contexts, and more can be done. Another recent approach toward a historical understanding of the abstractness of modern mathematics has been to see it as a species of modernism, and this thesis will be tested by the raft of works on the history of modern applied mathematics currently under way.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing, Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK7 6AA, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gray
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008433:Mathematics / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*