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Baltimore, MD, USA 
18 July, 2008

by Joseph W. Dauben

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The symposium speakers (from left to right): William Noel, Abigail Quandt, Liu Dun, Joseph Dauben, Doug Emery, and Michael Toth
 

ICHM Co-Sponsored Session on 
"Case Studies in the Internationalization of Mathematics: Goals, Strategies, and Outcomes in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"
Saturday, 8 November, 2008

By Karen V. H. Parshall

By Karen V. H. Parshall

This set of lectures, delivered by an international group of historians of mathematics, once again formed the first day of a two-day Special Session on the History of Mathematics at the Joint Mathematics Meetings held this year in Washington, D.C.

The session was organized by Joseph W. Dauben (The Graduate Center of the City University of New York), Patti W. Hunter (Westmont College), Deborah Kent (Hillsdale College), and Karen V. H. Parshall (University of Virginia)
 

Five of the symposia at ICHST09 were co-sponsored by the ICHM. These symposia are listed below with the names of their organizers, descriptions of their purpose, as well as the names of speakers, with titles of their papers and abstracts.

The idea of creating an International Commission on the History of Mathematics was first discussed in Paris in 1968 at the 12th International Congress of History of Science. On that occasion, it was resolved that a subcommittee—with Kenneth O.

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