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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 

Pierre Dugac, charge d'un tours de mathgmatiques et d'histoire 
des mathgmatiques h 1'Universitg Pierre et Marie Curie a Paris; 
ses recherches portent sur les fondements de l'analyse du XVIIIe 
au XXe si&le. 

Giorigio Israel received a degree in mathematics in 1968 from 
the University of Rome, where he is presently Associate Professor 
of Mathematics. He has published articles and books on commuta- 
tive algebras, field theory, and differential equations and 
their applications, as well as several works in the history of 
science and mathematics on such topics as science and the French 
Revolution, aspects of contemporary mathematics, and, most re- 
cently, mathematics in Italy between the two World Wars. As a 
Fellow of the National Research Council, he is responsible for 
its program entitled "The Mathematical Work of Vito Volterra." 

Karsten Johnsen is Wissenschaftlicher Rat at the Seminar of 
Mathematics of the University Kiel. He received his Ph.D. from 
the University of Kiel in 1969 and his Dr. rer. nat. habil in 
1977. His main research interests are algebra, geometry, and 
history of mathematics. 

Wilbur Knorr teaches the History of Science at Stanford Univer- 
sity, where he is Assistant Professor in Classics and Philosophy. 
His recent work has explored problems in the interpretation of 
Archimedes and the ancient tradition of geometry and geometric 
science, and includes a study of the Archimedean mechanical 
tradition in the Middle Ages and a study of the development of 
the classical tradition of geometric problems. 

Yakov M. Rabkin is Associate Professor of Science Policy and 
History of Science at the Institut d'histoire et de sociopolit- 
ique des sciences, Universit; de Montreal, Canada. He has 
written in a variety of scholarly journals on science and pol- 
itics, sources of industrial innovation, and sociology of 
science. This review was written during a sabbatical leave 
spent in Israel. 

Joan L. Richards is Assistant Professor of History at Brown 
University on leave for a year at Cornell. She is currently 
writing a book on the reception of non-Euclidean geometry in 
Victorian Britain, and beginning research for an intellectual 
biography of Augustus De Morgan. 



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Paul LaWrellCe Rose is Professorial Reader in European History 
at James Cook University, Australia. He is the author of 
Italian Renaissance of Mathematics (1975) and Bodin and the 
Great God of Nature (1980). 

Gordon C. Smith is Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Aus- 
tralia. His main research interests include the development 
of Newton's calculus and the history of the laws of algebra. 
He is currently engaged in preparing for publication an edition 
of the correspondence of G. Boole and A. De Morgan. 

Frank SW&! is Professor of Mathematics and Education at the 
Capitol Campus of The Pennsylvania State University. His re- 
search interests concern the history of mathematics and societal 
impact on scientific thought and teaching. His writings in the 
history of mathematics include: Was Pythagoras Chinese? An 
Examination of Right Triangle Theory in Ancient China (The 
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977). 

Raymond L. Wilder, presently Emeritus Professor and Research 
Associate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is 
also Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. Although 
his main area of research was Topology, in recent years he has 
devoted most of his studies to the social anthropology of math- 
ematics, in which he has published a number of articles and two 
books, Evolution of Mathematical Concepts (Wiley, 1968) and Math- 
ematics as a Cultural System (Pergamon, 1981). 

Anthony Winterbourne received his Ph.D. from the University of 
Bristol in 1979 and is presently Senior Lecturer at Birmingham 
Polytechnic. His major research interests are Kant's philosophy; 
the foundations of mathematics; and, most recently, the relations 
between art and science.