Global Mathematics in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

该奖项支持一个为期两年的博士后研究和培训项目，以推进从世纪初到现在的现代数学全球化的起源和后果的跨学科奖学金计划。通过研究和促进对当今全球数学学科的起源和后果的新理解，该项目产生了许多更广泛的影响。更好地描述数学家的社会组织可能会通过引起对隐藏的社会和结构障碍的关注来提高数学的参与度，同时提高数学家对当前学科规范和制度的起源和遗产的认识。该项目的公众参与活动将为科学和数学教育工作者和政策制定者提供资源，并提高公众对数学、数学历史及其持续的社会相关性的认识，特别是在这些历史材料不容易获得的情况下。世纪前，专业数学的世界是封闭和狭窄的，受到地理、政治、机构和知识部门的限制。现在，顶尖的数学家们经常周游地球仪，进行远距离的合作。拟议的培训和研究将有助于定义数学的全球历史和社会学中新兴的奖学金，在一个新生的学术社区内为该主题建立联系，并提供本世纪中叶数学作为一个跨大陆企业出现的第一个全面的帐户之一。这项工作有助于学科的历史和社会学研究中的多个开放主题，包括数学合作的历史和社会学，数学的制度塑造，数学社会结构变化的智力后果，语言政治和社会经济不平等，以及数学和相关学科全球化的过程和影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

This award supports a two year postdoctoral research and training project to advance an interdisciplinary program of scholarship on the origins and consequences of globalization in modern mathematics from the early twentieth century to the present. By examining and promoting new understandings of the origins and consequences of today's global mathematical discipline, this project offers numerous broader impacts. Better accounts of mathematicians' social organization may improve participation in mathematics by drawing attention to hidden social and structural barriers, while increasing mathematicians' awareness of the origins and legacies of current disciplinary norms and institutions. Public engagement activities from the project will offer resources for science and mathematics educators and policymakers and increase public appreciation of mathematics, its history, and its ongoing societal relevance, especially in contexts where such historical materials are not readily available.A century ago, the world of professional mathematics was cloistered and narrow, limited by geographic, political, institutional, and intellectual divisions. Now, leading mathematicians regularly travel the globe and collaborate across great distances. The proposed training and research will help define newly emerging scholarship in the global history and sociology of mathematics, developing connections within a nascent scholarly community for the subject and offering one of the first comprehensive accounts of the mid-century emergence of mathematics as a continent-crossing enterprise. This work contributes to multiple open topics in historical and sociological studies of the discipline, including the history and sociology of mathematical collaboration, the institutional shaping of mathematics, the intellectual consequences of changing social structures in mathematics, the politics of language and socioeconomic inequality, and the course and effects of globalization in mathematics and related disciplines.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.