Mathematical Europe: histories, myths, identities. Based on a satellite colloquium of the European Congress of Mathematics, Paris, France, April 3--6, 1992 (Q2785777)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThis volume contains besides a Preface (in French) and an Introduction (in French and in English), 23 contributions grouped into three sections: Les origines des mathématiques européennes, L'Europe mathématique à ses frontières, À l'intérieur de l'Europe mathématique. Each section starts with an introductory article by Catherine Goldstein, Jim Ritter, and Jeremy Gray, respectively. The collection ends with Conclusion (in French and in English), a Complementary Bibliography, a short Biography of the authors and a useful Index.NEWLINENEWLINEIndexed articles:NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Goldstein, Catherine}, On the research of the origins: contents, sources, communities and histories, 15-30 [Zbl 0880.01014]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Vitrac, Bernard}, Myths (and realities?) in the history of ancient Greek mathematics, 31-51 [Zbl 0881.01003]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Plofker, Kim}, How to appreciate Indian techniques for deriving mathematical formulas?, 53-65 [Zbl 0873.01008]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Rashed, Roshdi}, Classical modernity and Arabic science, 67-81 [Zbl 0873.01007]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Lévy, Tony}, Hebrew mathematical literature in Europe (XIth-XVIth centuries), 83-99 [Zbl 0877.01016]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Høyrup, Jens}, The formation of a myth: Greek mathematics -- our mathematics, 101-119 [Zbl 0873.01003]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Cifoletti, Giovanna}, The creation of the history of algebra in the sixteenth century, 121-142 [Zbl 0873.01010]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Fletcher, Colin}, Mersenne: His correspondence and the \textit{academia parisiensis}, 143-153 [Zbl 0872.01038]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Dhombres, Jean}, A Baroque mathematics in Europe: networks, ambitions, and actors, 155-181 [Zbl 0871.01005]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Bos, Henk}, Tradition and modernity in early modern mathematics: Viète, Descartes and Fermat, 183-204 [Zbl 0876.01026]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Ritter, Jim}, The limits of European mathematics: centres and peripheries, 207-218 [Zbl 0876.01065]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Chemla, Karine}, What does the expression ``European mathematics'' mean when viewed from China?, 219-245 [Zbl 0877.01002]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Horiuchi, Annick}, On the recomposition of the Japanese mathematical scene at the beginning of the Meiji era, 247-268 [Zbl 0877.01004]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Folta, Jaroslav}, ``Local'' and ``general'' developments in mathematics: The case of the Czech Lands, 269-288 [Zbl 0872.01039]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Pawlikowska-Brożek, Zofia}, On mathematical life in Poland, 289-301 [Zbl 0871.01025]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Phili, Christine}, The reconstruction of mathematics in Greece: the contribution of Ioannis Carandinos (1784--1834), 303-319 [Zbl 0876.01031]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Ortiz, Eduardo}, The nineteenth-century international mathematical community and its connection with those on the Iberian periphery, 321-343 [Zbl 0877.01021]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Gray, Jeremy}, Nineteenth-century mathematical Europe(s), 347-360 [Zbl 0872.01012]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Schubring, Gert}, Changing cultural and epistemological views on mathematics and different institutional contexts in nineteenth-century Europe, 361-388 [Zbl 0880.01013]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Gispert, Hélène}, A comparison between French and Italian mathematical journals 1860-1875, 389-406 [Zbl 0884.01022]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Gispert, Hélène; Tobies, Renate}, A comparative study of the French and German Mathematical Societies before 1914, 407-430 [Zbl 0876.01062]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Schreiber, Peter}, Johann August Grunert and his \textit{Archiv der Mathematik und Physik} as an integrative factor of everyone's mathematics in the middle of the nineteenth century, 431-444 [Zbl 0884.01023]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Durand-Richard, Marie-José}, The British algebraic school: Conceptual and institutional conditions for a symbolic calculus as a foundation for knowledge, 445-477 [Zbl 0871.01021]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Duda, Roman}, \textit{Fundamenta Mathematicae} and the Warsaw school of mathematics, 479-498 [Zbl 0876.01034]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Nový, Luboš}, Mathematics and the evolution of the Czech nation, 499-515 [Zbl 0871.01022]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Mehrtens, Herbert}, Modernism vs. counter-modernism, nationalism vs. internationalism: style and politics in mathematics 1900-1950, 517-529 [Zbl 0872.01017]