Report of the Activities of the International Commission for the History of Mathematics (ICHM) in 2014 for the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS) Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST)

Craig Fraser (Chair)

Meetings of the Executive Committee (EC) of the ICHM

The Executive Council of the ICHM had three electronic meetings (E-meetings) in 2014, and will have a fourth E-meeting in December.

Webpage

The ICHM continues to maintain a webpage (http://www.unizar.es/ichm/home.htm) of its activities and of matters of interest to historians of mathematics internationally. It is updated at least four times yearly.

Conferences co-sponsored by the ICHM The ICHM continues actively to solicit and to co-sponsor special sessions and conferences internationally. These conferences are posted on the ICHM website (http://www.unizar.es/ichm/events.htm): ICHM Co-Sponsored AMS-MAA Special Sessions on History of Mathematics (San Antonio, Texas, USA, January 10-11, 2015) ICHM Co-Sponsored Research workshop: Reading mathematics in the early modern world (All Souls College, Oxford, UK, December 18-19, 2014) ICHM Co-Sponsored International Conference History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia V – Visual and textual representations in exchanges between Europe and East Asia (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 7-9, 2014) ICHM Co-Sponsored Memorial in Honor of Xu Yibao (VI ISACBRST, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, USA, October 4, 2014) ICHM Co-Sponsored Conference Valediction to Jeremy Gray (Mercure Parkside House, Milton Keynes MK6 3LR, UK, September 11-12, 2014) ICHM Co-Sponsored Meeting Bolzano in Prague 2014 (Villa Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic, July 16 – 19, 2014)

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ICHM Co-Sponsored 12th Austrian Symposium on the History of Mathematics (Miesenbach, Lower Austria, May 4-10, 2014) ICHM Co-Sponsored Special Sessions on History of Mathematics at the Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America (Baltimore, Maryland, USA, January 11-12, 2014) Reports on these conferences are posted or will be posted on the ICHM website (http://www.unizar.es/ichm/activity.htm):

ICHM Co-Sponsored Memorial in Honor of Xu Yibao (VI ISACBRST, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, USA, October 4, 2014) Organizer: Joseph W. Dauben (CUNY, USA)

Report on the ICHM Co-Sponsored Conference Valediction to Jeremy Gray (Mercure Parkside House, Milton Keynes MK6 3LR, UK, September 11-12, 2014) Organizer: June Barrow-Green (, Milton Keynes, UK)

Report on the ICHM Co-Sponsored Meeting Bolzano in Prague 2014 (Villa Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic, July 16-19, 2014) Organizers: Arianna Betti (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Steve Russ (, UK)

Report on the ICHM Co-Sponsored 12th Austrian Symposium on the History of Mathematics (Miesenbach, Lower Austria, May 4-10, 2014) Organizer: Christa Binder (Vienna, Austria)

Report on the ICHM Co-Sponsored Special Sessions on History of Mathematics at the Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America (Baltimore, Maryland, USA, January 11-12, 2014) Organizers: Sloan Despeaux (Western Carolina University, USA), Della Dumbaugh (University of Richmond, USA), Glen van Brummelen (Quest University, Canada)

Publications

Historia Mathematica is the official journal of the ICHM. It appears four times annually and publishes roughly 525 pages of original research in the history of mathematics from all times and cultures. The journal is currently edited by Thomas Archibald (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Niccolò Guicciardini (Universita' degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy). It is published by Elsevier Science and is available electronically to subscribers of ScienceDirect.

November 4, 2014

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