The Human Aspect in the Early History of the American Mathematical Monthly

Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries

“…4), but the bulk of the biographies of Europeans were written by Halsted (20 in total) and concerned with contributors to non-Euclidean geometry in the nineteenth century. Halsted's use of 6 For the early history of the American Mathematical Monthly and its first editors, see also (Finkel 1931;Maxwell 1993). 7 Whereas most of the authors dealt with here are known today, my access to information about Matz is more sparse: He had studied at various American institutions before he received his PhD from Heidelberg and returned to take a post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins University.…”