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LONG-TERM HISTORY AND EPHEMERAL CONFIGURATIONS

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Mathematical concepts and results have often been given a long history, stretching far back in time. Yet recent work in the history of mathematics has tended to focus on local topics, over a short term-scale, and on the study of ephemeral configurations of mathematicians, theorems or practices. The first part of the paper explains why this change has taken place: a renewed interest in the connections between mathematics and society, an increased attention to the variety of components and aspects of mathematical work, and a critical outlook on historiography itself. The problems of a long-term history are illustrated and tested using a number of episodes in the nineteenth-century history of Hermitian forms, and finally, some open questions are proposed.
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hal-02334505 , version 1 (29-10-2019)

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Catherine Goldstein. LONG-TERM HISTORY AND EPHEMERAL CONFIGURATIONS. International Congress of Mathematicians, Aug 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. pp.487-522. ⟨hal-02334505⟩
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