Abstract
In his paper ‘History of Mathematics: Why and How’ for the 1978 International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki, Andre Weil makes the following statement: »Some universities have established chairs for ‘the history and philosophy of mathematics’; it is hard for me to imagine what those two subjects can have in common.» (Weil, 1980, p. 230.)
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