Placing a global mathematical literature

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The problem of comprehensive and timely mathematical bibliography was at the forefront of mathematicians’ international and global ambitions in the twentieth century. The Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete and its slightly younger counterpart Mathematical Reviews formed a lynchpin for a widely distributed publishing infrastructure that created a meaningfully global mathematical literature, changing in the process how mathematicians organized their research communities and their ideas alike. This chapter examines how geographic markers of place appear and recede from view in these review journals and their operating apparatus. Combining evidence from comparatively central and peripheral locations and institutions, it shows how tracking the changing visibility and salience of specific locations can help to situate and historicize instruments and practices of connection-making and decontextualization at the root of modern mathematics.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch in History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Subtitle of host publicationThe CSHPM 2021 Volume
EditorsMaria Zack, David Waszek
PublisherBirkhäuser Cham
Chapter12
Pages199-212
Number of pages14
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9783031214943
ISBN (Print)9783031214967, 9783031214936
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 May 2023

Publication series

NameAnnals of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/ Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques
PublisherBirkhäuser Cham

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