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====================== HES POSTING ======================
Participants in this thread may be interested in an exactly parallel
set of discussions a few years ago among historians of mathematics.
The eminent Joseph W. Dauben responded to Andre Weil's 1988 Helsinki
International Congress talk which suggested that "The craft of
mathematical history can best be practiced by those of us who are or
who have been active mathematicians", or as Dauben says "...only
mathematicians like [Weil] himself were qualified to write history of
mathematics, and the better the mathematician, the better the history
was likely to be ..." [pace Paul Samuelson on Whig History(?)]
See Dauben's "Mathematics: An Historian's Perspective" in Chikara,
Mitsuo, and Dauben, (eds.) _The Intersection of History and
Mathematics_ .Boston: Birkhauser, 1994.
E. Roy Weintraub, Professor of Economics
Director, Center for Social and Historical Studies of Science
Duke University, Box 90097
Durham, North Carolina 27708-0097
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