Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development

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Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development is written by Joseph W. Dauben and published by Springer Science & Business Media. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3764361670 (ISBN 10) and 9783764361679 (ISBN 13).

As an historiographic monograph, this book offers a detailed survey of the professional evolution and significance of an entire discipline devoted to the history of science. It provides both an intellectual and a social history of the development of the subject from the first such effort written by the ancient Greek author Eudemus in the Fourth Century BC, to the founding of the international journal, Historia Mathematica, by Kenneth O. May in the early 1970s.