Footnote:

André Weil, "History of Mathematics: Why and How", in Proceedings of the ICM, Helsinki 1978, Helsinki, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1980, pp. 236-244. [Also in Collected Papers, Vol. III, New York, Springer-Verlag (1979), pp. 434-442.]

Calculating the Limits of Poetic License:
Fictional Narrative and the History of Mathematics
Leo Corry - Tel Aviv University