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- W2785481574 abstract "Henri Bosmans was born in Malines, Belgium in 1852 and entered the Jesuit order in 1871. He was first assigned to the Jesuit college of Ghent. When he was asked in 1887 to replace the professor of mathematics at the Jesuit college of Brussels, this move would give a definitive orientation to his further life. It is only in 1894 that he begins publishing on the history of mathematics. What started out as hesitantly posing and answering questions under a pseudonym in L’Intermediaire des Mathematiciens, grew into an impressive collection of publications of high scholarship. He turned out to be a prolific researcher and writer who could write confidently about his main subjects: Jesuit science and early modern mathematics. He was highly respected by his peers, which were not the least: David Eugene Smith, Moritz Cantor, Johannes Tropfke, Florian Cajori, Gino Loria, Gustav Enestrom and Paul Tannery. Some of them he regarded as friends. By his death in 1928, almost 300 contributions of him appeared in scientific journals, ranging from small notes to 200-page articles, including transcriptions of manuscripts. In addition, about the same number of reviews of books and articles were published. He did not hesitate to be very critical about the work of others including Enestrom’s continued bashing of Cantor. Despite the scope and merits of his work, Bosmans is little known today. Shortly after the death of Bosmans, Adolphe Rome, a canon from Louvain working on ancient Greek mathematics, published a biography and an annotated bibliography of Henri Bosmans in Isis (Rome, 1928). Two decades later, George Sarton, the founder of Isis wrote his emotional appeal to republish the papers of Father Bosmans in book form (Sarton, 1949). This was followed by both an updated biography and a bibliography (Bernard-Maitre (1950). However, more than half a century later, Sarton’s appeal for republishing Bosmans’ work has not yet been answered. Now several initiatives have been launched to open up available material. An on-line archive currently contains all of Bosmans’ publications (Heeffer, 2006), most of which are accessible in full text. A commemorative symposium on Henri Bosmans was held at the ULB in Belgium, on 12 and 13 May, 2006, the proceedings of which will soon be published (Stoffel 2007) including an updated biography (Hermans 2007) and bibliography (Heeffer 2007). For the rest of this short note, we would like to address two questions: 1) Why is it that today Bosmans is not recognized as many of his peers active in the early twentieth century? 2) What makes his work still of value today?" @default.
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- W2785481574 title "Father Henri Bosmans (S.J.) A Belgian pioneer in the history of mathematics" @default.
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