Publications


Mathematicians Confront Political Tests: The American Mathematical Society and the Red Scare in 1954,” with  K.H. Parshall, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 71, No. 4 (April 2024): 500–513.

“Speaking to the Public: Mathematicians on American Radio, the 1920s through the 1940s,” with  K.H. Parshall, Mathematical Intelligencer 45, No. 3 (Fall 2023): 208–222. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-022-10235-5

Creator, “Perry O. Crawford Jr.” and “Archives of American Mathematics“, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed April 13, 2022).

The Archives of American Mathematics,” with Carol Mead, Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society, 105(September 2017): 34–38.

“Ivor Grattan-Guinness (1941-2014),” Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies n.s. 35(2015): 177–80.

“In Memoriam: Ivor Grattan-Guinness (June 23, 1941–December 12, 2014)” with J.W. Dauben, N. Guicciardini, K.H. Parshall, A.C. Rice, Historia Mathematica 42(2015): 385–406.

“The divine truth of mathematics and the origins of linear algebra,” Theology and Science, 9(2011): 109–120.

Editor with Petsche, H.-J.; Liesen, J.; Russ, S., From Past to Future: Graßmann’s Work in ContextGraßmann Bicentennial Conference, September 2009. Basel: Springer, 2011.

“Some philosophical influences of the Ausdehnungslehre,” in From Past to Future: Graßmann’s Work in Context. H.-J. Petsche et al. eds. Basel: Springer, 2011.

Associate Editor, Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Vol. 8: 1890–1892. Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010.

“H.G. Grassmann” in Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, M. Weber, W. Desmond, eds., Frankfurt: ontos, 2008.

“H. G. Grassmann, Ausdehnungslehre of 1844,” and “W. R. Hamilton, Lectures on Quaternions,” in Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics, 1640–1940, I. Grattan-Guinness, ed., Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005.

“G.B. Halsted” and “Norbert Wiener,” The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (Thoemmes, 2005).

Essay review of Geraldine Brady, From Peirce to Skolem: A neglected chapter in the history of logicNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 45(2004): 247-256. PDF of preprint (147KB).

“The beginnings of the R. L. Moore school of topology,” Historia Mathematica, 31 (2004): 279–295. PDF of preprint (236KB)

“Kenneth O. May and information retrieval in mathematics,” Historia Mathematica, 31(2004): 186–195.

“The unity of logic, pedagogy and foundations in Grassmann’s mathematical work,” History and Philosophy of Logic, 25 (2004): 15–36. PDF of preprint. (446 KB)

 “William Kingdon Clifford” and “William Rowan Hamilton”, New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

“The contrasting views of Charles S. Peirce and Bertrand Russell on Cantor’s transfinite paradise”, Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, vol. 13 (2000): 159166.

Associate Editor, Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Vol. 6: 1886–1890. Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Assistant Editor, The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. Vol. 15: Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 191922. Richard A. Rempel, editor. London: Routledge, 2000.

Associate Editor, The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, Vol. 2: 1893–1913.  Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998.

 “R. H. Bing”, “George Bruce Halsted”, “Robert Lee Moore”, “Benjamin Osgood Peirce”, “David Eugene Smith”, and “Gordon T. Whyburn”, American National Biography, J. A. Garraty, ed. (Oxford University Press, 1998).

 “The influence of pedagogy of geometry on the foundations of mathematics”, invited paper, pp. 13–20 in Histoires de Géométries: Textes du séminaire de l’anneé 1996, Paris: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1997.

“Hermann Grassmann’s n-dimensional vector concept”, invited paper, pp. 139–48 in Le nombre, une hydre à n visages: entre nombres complexes et vecteurs, Paris: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1997.

“The influence of Grassmann’s 1840 theory of tides on the Ausdehnungslehre”, invited paper, pp. 29–36 in Hermann Günther Grassmann (1809–1877)—Visionary Mathematician, Scientist and Neohumanist Scholar, Proceedings, Rügen, Germany, 23–28 May 1994. G. Schubring, editor. Kluwer, 1996.

“Some influences of Hermann Grassmann’s program on modern logic”, invited paper, pp. 377–82 in Studies on the History of Logic: Proceedings of the III. Symposium on the History of Logic, I. Angelelli and M. Cerezo, editors. (Perspektiven der Analytischen Philosophie, Bd. 8.) Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1996.

“Hermann Grassmann and the algebraization of arithmetic”, invited paper, pp. 47–58 in Hermann Graßmann, Werk und Wirkung. Internationale Fachtagung anläßlich des 150. Jahrestages des ersten Erscheinens der “linealen Ausdehnungslehre” (Lieschow/Rügen 23.-28.5.1994). Greifswald: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, 1995.

Foreword to H. Grassmann, A New Branch of Mathematics: The ‘Ausdehnungslehre’ of 1844, and Other Works, translated by L.C. Kannenberg. Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1995.

Assistant Editor, The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. Vol. 14: Pacifism and Revolution, 1916–18. Richard A. Rempel, editor. London: Routledge, 1995. lxxxii, 630 pp.

Assistant Editor, The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. Vol. 4: Foundations of Logic, 1903–05. Alasdair Urquhart, editor. London: Routledge, 1994. lii+743 pp.

 “Why archive?”, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 40(1993): 847–9, and FOCUS: The Newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America, 13, No. 1 (August 1993): 11–2. Written on behalf of the AMS–MAA Committee on Archives.

“Complex numbers and vectors”, Encyclopaedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, I. Grattan-Guinness, ed. (London: Routledge, 1993).

 “Robert Lee Moore” in Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Supplement II. F.L. Holmes, ed. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1990).

Co-editor with Nicholas Griffin, The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. Vol. 2: Philosophical Papers, 189699. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. xxxix+647 pp.

“Bertrand Russell’s mathematical education”, with Nicholas Griffin, Notes and Records of the Royal Society 44(1990): 51–71. 

“An introduction to the Bertrand Russell Editorial Project: axiomatics in Russell”, invited paper, Estudios de Historia de la Logica. Actas del II Simposio de Historia de la Logica, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, 25-27 de Mayo de 1987. I. Angelelli and A. d’Ors, eds. (Pamplona: Ediciones Eunate, 1990), pp. 353-61.

“The influence of Roger Boscovich in Bertrand Russell’s early philosophy of physics”, Synthesis Philosophica (Zagreb) 4(1989): 649–58. Translated as “Utjecaj Rudoera Boškovicca na ranu filozofiju fizike Bertranda Russella”, Filozofska Istrazivanja (Zagreb) 32–33(1989): 1611–20. 

“The building of the University of Texas mathematics faculty, 1883–1938”, pp. 205–39 in A Century of Mathematics in America – Part III. Peter Duren, ed. (Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society, 1989). 

Introduction to “Autobiographical remarks by Ronald W. Clark”, Russell: The Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives n.s., 9(1989): 60–1.

“Computer-aided finding aids in the Russell Archives”, Russell n.s., 7(1987–88): 167–70.

Author and subject indexes to some 5,000 abstracts. Historia Mathematica 13(1986): 391–423; 14(1987): 79–117.

“The Toronto Russell Conference”, Russell n.s. 3(1983–84): 329–34. A shorter version of the same report is in Historia Mathematica 12(1985): 74–8.

“Botany from Linnaeus to Lamarck”, Wrightia: A Botanical Journal 7(1982): 27–37. On an exhibition of 18th-century books and colored engravings from the Lundell Library of the Humanities Research Center. From a separate exhibition guide.

“F. Schleiermacher’s influence on H. Grassmann’s mathematics”, Social History of Nineteenth Century Mathematics, H. Mehrtens, et al., eds. (Boston: Birkhuser, 1981) pp. 246–54.

“Justus Grassmann’s school programs as mathematical antecedents of Hermann Grassmann’s 1844 Ausdehnungslehre”Epistemological and Social Problems of the Sciences in the Early Nineteenth Century, H.N. Jahnke and M. Otte, eds. (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1981) pp. 255–68.

A Selection of Books and Manuscripts on Logic from the History of Science Collection, The Humanities Research Center. Exhibited on the Occasion of the History of Logic Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, 1718 April 1980.  Leaflet prepared with Ignacio Angelelli.

The Origin of Finger-Printing: An addition to the Herschel Collection”, The Library Chronicle of The University of Texas at Austin, n.s. No. 14(1980): 23–4.

“History of Science Collection”, Discovery: Research and Scholarship at The University of Texas at Austin, 4(1980): 18–21.

Albert Einstein, 18791955. A Centenary Exhibition of Manuscripts, Books, and Portraits Selected from the Humanities Research Center Collections. With a Preface by John A. Wheeler. (Austin: Humanities Research Center, 1979) 36 pp.

Introduction to Albert Einstein: Four Commemorative Lectures (Austin: Humanities Research Center, 1979) 64 pp. An outcome of organizing a program of public lectures by L.S. Swenson, C.P. Snow, H. Stein, and I. Prigogine.

“An archive for American mathematics”, The Mathematical Intelligencer 1(1978): 175–6

“The establishment of  The Archives of American Mathematics”, Historia Mathematica 5(1978): 340–1.

“H. Grassmann’s 1844 Ausdehnungslehre and Schleiermacher’s Dialektik”Annals of Science 34(1977): 103–62.

“Robert Lee Moore”, The Handbook of Texas. A Supplement. Vol. 3. (Austin: The Texas State Historical Association, 1976).

“George Bruce Halsted and the development of American mathematics”, Men and Institutions in American Mathematics (Graduate Studies, Texas Tech University, No. 13, 1976), pp. 123–29.

“Bringing  modern mathematics to bear on historical research”,  a note in Historia Mathematica 2(1975): 84–5.

“Halsted’s translation of Lobachevskii’s ‘Theory of Parallels’: an historical introduction”, The Texas Quarterly 16(1973): 85–91.

“Apollonius of Perga”, “Archimedes”, “Euclid”, and “Eudoxus”, in The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973).