Making the history of computing. The history of computing in the history of technology and the history of mathematics.
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2018
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Historiography of computing History of mathematics History of technology History of disciplinesSujets proches
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Liesbeth de Mol et al., « Making the history of computing. The history of computing in the history of technology and the history of mathematics. », HAL-SHS : histoire, philosophie et sociologie des sciences et des techniques, ID : 10670/1.jblnuz
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A history of writing the history of computing is presented in its relationship to the history of mathematics. As with many historiographies, the initial history of computing was very much an internalistic history. In the late 1970s, the field became more serious and started looking at the histories of mathematics and technology for (methodological) inspiration. Whereas the history of mathematics was initially quite influential, it is the history of technology (in its U.S. form) that has become the dominant framework for doing history of computing since the 1990s.