AMUCHMA NEWSLETTER

AMUCHMA Newsletter is published by the A.M.U. Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa (AMUCHMA) which is formed in 1986 with the following objectives

a. to improve communication among those interested in the history of mathematics in Africa;

b. to promote active cooperation between historians, mathematicians, archaeologists, ethnographers, sociologists, etc., doing research in, or related to, the history of mathematics in Africa;

c. to promote research in the history of mathematics in Africa, and the publication of its results, in order to contribute to the demystification of the still-dominant Eurocentric bias in the historiography of mathematics;

d. to cooperate with any and all organizations pursuing similar objectives.

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Paulus Gerdes: Universidade Pedag—gica, P.O.Box 915, Maputo, Mozambique (Fax: 258-1-422113; E-mail: paulus@up.uem.mz)
[address during 1997/1998 sabbatical leave: University of Georgia, 105 Aderhold Hall, Athens GA 30602, USA (Fax: (706) 542-4551; E-mail: pgerdes@coe.uga.edu)]

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Ahmed Djebbar: Departement de Mathˇmatiques, B‰timent 425, Universitˇ de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France (Fax: 33-1-47015917; E-mail: Ahmed.Djebbar@wanadoo.fr, Ahmed.Djebbar@math.u-psud.fr)

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