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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. The History Of Applied Mathematics And The History Of Society. Synthese 133, 43–57 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020823608217
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