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The first half of the nineteenth century was a period of great changes in politics, in commerce and industry, in the arts, and in religious, philosophical and scientific thinking. For mathematics as well it was a period of deep change, in views on mathematics as a whole, in ideas about its foundations and the nature of its principal concepts, and in the educational function of the discipline. New institutions for the pursuit and teaching of mathematics and the sciences were created, and older institutions were radically transformed.
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Bos, H. (1981). Introduction. In: Mehrtens, H., Bos, H., Schneider, I. (eds) Social History of Nineteenth Century Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9491-4_1
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