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HISTORIA MATHEMATICA 23 (1996), 114–115 ARTICLE NO. 0012 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Tom Archibald teaches mathematics, history of mathematics, and history of science at Acadia University. His current research concerns the history of mathematical analysis in the 18th and 19th centuries and the history of mathematics in Canada. At present he is President of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics. Tadeusz Bato ´g is Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan ´ , Poland. His research interests center on mathematical logic and its applications to the foundations of phonology as well as on the philosophy of mathematics and the history of logic. His publications include The Axiomatic Method in Phonology, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967; Foundations of Logic [in Polish], Poznan ´ : Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 1986; and Studies in Axiomatic Foundations of Phonology, Poznan ´ : Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 1994. T. W. Gamelin received his B.S. from Yale in 1960 and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1963. After stints at MIT and at La Plata, Argentina, he joined the Mathematics Department at UCLA in 1968. He has taken leaves of absence and sabbaticals to work at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Oxford University, the University of Washington, the Universita ¨ t des Saarlandes, the Universitat de Vale ` ncia, and Brown University. His research specialty, function algebras, bridges complex analysis and functional analysis. An amateur mathemat- ics historian, he has taught courses in history of mathematics, and one of his Ph.D. students (Otto Bekken) has become a genuine mathematics historian. He became interested in the history of complex dynamical systems in connection with work on a research monograph with L. Carleson, when, in the course of reading original papers, he was struck by the discrepancy between the historical record and current accounts. Thomas Hawkins is Professor of Mathematics at Boston University. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 with a joint degree in mathematics and history of science. His doctoral thesis was published as Lebesgue’s Theory of Integration: Its Origins and Development, 2nd ed., New York: Chelsea, 1975. Since then his research has focused on other aspects of the history of 19th- and early 20th-century mathematics. He is currently completing research for a book on the theory of Lie groups from Lie to Weyl. Patti Wilger Hunter is a graduate student in the history of mathematics at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation research focuses on the history of statistics in the United States. 114 0315-0860/96 $18.00 Copyright 1996 by Academic Press, Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.
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Tom Archibald teaches mathematics, history of mathematics, and history of scienceat Acadia University. His current research concerns the history of mathematicalanalysis in the 18th and 19th centuries and the history of mathematics in Canada.At present he is President of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophyof Mathematics.
Tadeusz Batog is Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Scienceat the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. His research interests centeron mathematical logic and its applications to the foundations of phonology as wellas on the philosophy of mathematics and the history of logic. His publicationsinclude The Axiomatic Method in Phonology, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,1967; Foundations of Logic [in Polish], Poznan: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM,1986; and Studies in Axiomatic Foundations of Phonology, Poznan: WydawnictwoNaukowe UAM, 1994.
T. W. Gamelin received his B.S. from Yale in 1960 and his Ph.D. from UCBerkeley in 1963. After stints at MIT and at La Plata, Argentina, he joinedthe Mathematics Department at UCLA in 1968. He has taken leaves of absenceand sabbaticals to work at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, OxfordUniversity, the University of Washington, the Universitat des Saarlandes, theUniversitat de Valencia, and Brown University. His research specialty, functionalgebras, bridges complex analysis and functional analysis. An amateur mathemat-ics historian, he has taught courses in history of mathematics, and one of hisPh.D. students (Otto Bekken) has become a genuine mathematics historian. Hebecame interested in the history of complex dynamical systems in connectionwith work on a research monograph with L. Carleson, when, in the course ofreading original papers, he was struck by the discrepancy between the historicalrecord and current accounts.
Thomas Hawkins is Professor of Mathematics at Boston University. He obtainedhis doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 with a joint degree inmathematics and history of science. His doctoral thesis was published as Lebesgue’sTheory of Integration: Its Origins and Development, 2nd ed., New York: Chelsea,1975. Since then his research has focused on other aspects of the history of 19th-and early 20th-century mathematics. He is currently completing research for a bookon the theory of Lie groups from Lie to Weyl.
Patti Wilger Hunter is a graduate student in the history of mathematics at theUniversity of Virginia. Her dissertation research focuses on the history of statisticsin the United States.
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Y. Tzvi Langermann holds a Ph.D. in history of science from Harvard. He is onthe staff of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jewish National andUniversity Library, Jerusalem, where he is responsible for cataloguing scientificand philosophical texts. His research interests include science in Jewish and Islamiccivilizations, the interface between religion, philosophy, and science, and the intel-lectual history of the Jews of Yemen.
Ian Mueller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and a memberof the Academie internationale d’histoire des sciences. He is the author of Philoso-phy of Mathematics and Deductive Structure in Euclid’s Elements, Cambridge, MA:MIT Press, 1981. He is currently at work on a translation of Alexander of Aphrodi-sias’s commentary on Aristotle’s modal logic.
Roman Murawski, Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Scienceat the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, focuses his research onmathematical logic, the foundations of mathematics, the philosophy of mathematics,and the history of logic. Among his publications are Philosophy of Mathematics:Anthology of Classical Texts [in Polish], Poznan: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM,1986; Development of Logical Symbolism [in Polish], Poznan: Wydawnictwo Nau-kowe UAM, 1986; Recursive Functions and Elements of Metamathematics: Problemsof Completeness, Decidability, Godel’s Theorems [in Polish], Poznan: WydawnictwoNaukowe UAM, 1990; Mechanization of Reasoning in a Historical Perspective,Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1995 (co-author: W. Marciszewski); and Philoso-phy of Mathematics: An Outline of History [in Polish], Warsaw: WydawnictwoNaukowe PWN, 1995.
Peter Schreiber is Professor of Geometry and Foundations of Mathematics atGreifswald University. He also lectures on history of mathematics and is currentlychair of the section for history of mathematics in the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung. His main interests concern the prehistory of computer sciences inclassical mathematics (algorithms, complexity, coding, etc.).
Oscar Sheynin is the author of numerous studies on the history of statistics. He isan Effective Member of the International Academy of the History of Science andin 1991 became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
