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(2002) Synthese 133 (1-2).
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 approaches within the historiography of mathematics.
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Stolz, M. (2002). The history of applied mathematics and the history of society. Synthese 133 (1-2), pp. 43-57.
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