International Commission on the History of Mathematics

ICHM Montucla Prize 2009

The ICHM Montucla Prize is awarded every four years to the author of the best article by a junior scholar published in Historia Mathematica in the four years preceding the International Congress of History of Science and Technology.

Henrik Kragh Sørensen, of the University of Aarhus (Denmark),
is the winner of the First ICHM Montucla Prize (2005-2008) for his article
Exceptions and counterexamples: understanding Abel’s comment on Cauchy’s Theorem
published in Historia Mathematica  (Issue 32.4, 2005)

(See the report)



Also highly commended were (in order of publication):

Johanna Pejlare
Torsten Brodén’s work on the foundations of Euclidean geometry
(Historia Mathematica, Issue 34.3, 2007)

Benjamin Wardhaugh
Musical logarithms in the seventeenth century: Descartes, Mercator, Newton
(Historia Mathematica, Issue 35.1, 2008)


The next ICHM Montucla Prize will be awarded in 2013 (for the years 2009-2012)