The History Of Applied Mathematics And The History Of Society

@article{Stolz2004TheHO,
  title={The History Of Applied Mathematics And The History Of Society},
  author={Michael Stolz},
  journal={Synthese},
  year={2004},
  volume={133},
  pages={43-57}
}
  • M. Stolz
  • Published 1 October 2002
  • Philosophy, Computer Science
  • Synthese
Choosing the history of statistics and operations research as a casestudy, several ways of setting the development of 20th century appliedmathematics into a social context are discussed. It is shown that there isample common ground between these contextualizations and several recent research programs in general contemporary history. It is argued that a closer cooperation between general historians and historians ofmathematics might further the integration of the internalist andexternalist… 
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