Aims & Scope of the Novembertagung

The Novembertagung was initiated by doctoral students working on the history of mathematics. From 1995 to 2000, the informal gathering developed into an internationally renowned meeting on work in progress in the history, philosophy and didactics of mathematics, aiming at doctoral students and young researchers.

In our days, on the one hand, mathematics is still widely regarded as the queen of sciences, seeming to bare eternal truths. On the other hand, the subject has lost its glamour and has more and more been inherited by the natural sciences as a tool. These extreme views seem to be strongly contradictory. Nevertheless, the wide range of topics and questions on the history, philosophy and didactics of mathematics may help to form the basis for putting the various faces of mathematics together to a rounded-up picture again.

Since 1990, the Novembertagung offers young researchers from all over Europe a competent and creative forum for exchanging their results on the history, philosophy and didactics of mathematics, discuss work in progress, and thereby help bringing together these three bordering disciplines.