Valentine PakisRenate Tobies, a historian of mathematics and science at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany), studied mathematics, chemistry, physics, and pedagogy, and completed her doctoral degree and Habilitation at the University of Leipzig whileworking at the Karl Sudhoff Institute with Hans Wussing. She was the managing editor of the International Journal of History of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine for twenty years. After Wussing's retirement, she became a visiting professor at the University of Kaiserslautern and taught the history of science and technology at the University of Stuttgart. In addition, she has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Braunschweig, Jena, Saarbrucken, and Linz. She is a Corresponding Member of the Academie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences (Paris) und a Foreign Member of the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters (Kristiansand, Norway). Her main research fields are the history of mathematics and its applications, and women in mathematics, science, and technology. Annette B. Vogt is a historian of mathematics and science at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for the History of Science in Berlin (Germany). After studying mathematics and physics at the University of Leipzig, she received a Diplom in mathematics and a Ph.D. in the history of mathematics from the same university. After working at the Institute for Science Studies and the History of Science at the Academy of Science in Berlin (East), she has been a research scholar at the MPI for the History of Science since 1994. She also teaches the history of science and mathematics at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2009 until 2013, she was an assessor for the Council of the DHST/IUHPST (Division for History of Science and Technology of the IUHPST), and as of 2013 she has been its secretary general. She is a Corresponding Member of the Academie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences (Paris). Her main research fields are the history of mathematics, women in science, and the history of Jewish scientists. Read More Read Less