OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Historia Mathematica is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A historical note on the 3/2-approximation algorithm for the metric traveling salesman problem	36
The 1804 examination for the chair of Elementary Mathematics at the University of Prague	5
“Are the genre and the Geschlecht one and the same number?” An inquiry into Alfred Clebsch's Geschlecht	5
Modern light on ancient feud: Robert Hooke and Newton's graphical method	4
On the history of units in French elementary school arithmetic: The case of proportionality	4
The chords theorem recalled to life at the turn of the eighteenth century	3
The geometric origin of perspectivist science in G.W. Leibniz. Analysis based on unpublished manuscripts	3
How Leibniz tried to tell the world he had squared the circle	2
Quo vadis History of Ancient Mathematics who will you take with you, and who will be left behind? Essay Review prompted by a recent publication	2
Ways of counting in Micronesia	2
A letter from Malevich to Semevsky about Kovalevskaya	2
“Knowledge gained by experience”: Olaus Henrici—engineer, geometer and maker of mathematical models	2
Probability and exams: The work of Antonio Bordoni	2
Permanence as a principle of practice	2
Scientia Perspectiva. Leibniz and geometric perspective	2
The Edinburgh Mathematical Laboratory and Edmund Taylor Whittaker's role in the early development of numerical analysis in Britain	2
Francesco Carlini: Kepler's equation and the asymptotic solution to singular differential equations	2
Federigo Enriques (1871-1946): A critical study of Lezioni di geometria proiettiva	1
Felix Klein's teaching of Galois theory	1
“Complex numbers” and the problem of multiplication between quantities	1
Ajima's solution to the Gion shrine problem: A modern interpretation	1
From lattices via social history to theories of modernity in mathematics	1
‘Disturbed’ by Euclid: Thomas Fincke and the reading of Ramist mathematics in sixteenth-century Germany	1
Hjelmslev's geometry of reality	1
How Jean-Baptiste Delambre read ancient Greek arithmetic on the basis of the arithmetic of “complex numbers” at the turn of the 19th century	1

Book Review	1
The concrete numbers of “primitive” societies: A historiographical approach	1
Book Review	1
Julius Plücker – A path from geometry to optics	1
Numeracy at the dawn of writing: Mesopotamia and beyond	1
“Denominate numbers” in mathematics school textbooks by Stefan Banach	1
Pygmies, Bushmen, and savage numbers – a case study in a sequence of bad citations	1
Book Review	1
W.F. Sheppard's correspondence with Karl Pearson and the development of his tables and moment estimates	1
Introduction – A critical approach to the opposition between “concrete” and “abstract” numbers	1
François Viète's method for calculating the eccentricity in a bisected model and its possible application to Kepler's Vicarious Hypothesis	1
Book Review	1
On resolving singularities of plane curves via a theorem attributed to Alfred Clebsch	1
Small numerical variations in a set of similar problems from Nippur on the area of the square	1
The “Circolo Matematico di Palermo” and the First World War: The crisis of scientific internationalism: a view through the unedited correspondence of De Franchis with Edmund Landau and other mathemati	1
Decimal fractional numeration and the decimal point in 15th-century Italy	1
On Mascheroni's La geometria del compasso at the beginning of the 19th century	1
How the estimate of 2 on YBC 7289 may have been calcul	1
Newton on constructions in geometry	1