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The historian’s basic questions,..., are: What was the past like? and, How did the present come to be? The second question... How did the present come to be?... is the central one in the history of mathematics. [Grabiner 1975.]
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Lützen, J. (1982). Introduction. In: The Prehistory of the Theory of Distributions. Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, vol 7. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9472-3_1
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