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Description
In my talk, I will discuss the conceotual approaches the editors of the two volumes have chosen as editors and/or authors to the task of producing texts on the cultural history of mathematics. I ask what they consider as cultural history and with which disciplinary fields also studying cultural histories they were in dialogue. Furthermore, I reflect on how the authors of selected chapters responded to those editorial choices and which ruptures come to the fore. Finally, I highlight irritating inconsistencies which illustrate the continued existence of layers of outdated historiographical assumptions and surprisingly elementary and a few less elementary historical errors and ask what such features say about the state of the art in our field.
