abstract: Starting from the thesis that the history of mathematics, for saving its duration and support as a scientific discipline, has to look for the needs and problems of contemporary mathematics, six main problems of contemporary mathematics are listed (concerning partly its social state) and subsequently, 16 questions about the history of mathematics. Moreover, some analogues between the work-sharing of the historians of mathematics and that of the scientists are stated.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Mathematik und Informatik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Str. 15a, D-17487, Greifswald.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schreiber