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Quido Karl Ludwig Vetter (born June 5, 1881 in Prague ; † October 20, 1960 ibid.) Was a Czech math historian and math teacher.

Vetter first studied at the Technical University in Prague, but after two years switched to studying mathematics at the Charles University in Prague , where he received his doctorate in 1913. Afterwards he was a teacher at grammar schools in Prague, but after reading Moritz Cantor's lectures on the history of mathematics, he also turned to the history of mathematics .

In 1919 he completed his habilitation and taught history of mathematics at the Charles University in Prague and in 1924 he became an associate professor. At the same time he was also the school director in Humpolec. After the Second World War he resumed his lectures on the history of mathematics and mathematics pedagogy at the Charles University in Prague.

He was multilingual (Russian, English, French, German, Polish, Italian, Spanish) and particularly admired Gustav Eneström and Gino Loria among mathematical historians .

In 1926 an anthology of his essays on ancient mathematics was published ( How to Count and Measure at the Beginning of Culture , Czech). Another focus was the history of science in the Czech lands up to the 17th century. He was involved in the establishment of the forerunner of the International Academy of the History of Science under Aldo Mieli in Paris, was president of the relevant committee in 1928 and president of the academy from 1934 to 1937. He founded the Czech Society for the History of Science and in 1937 organized the fourth International Congress on the History of Science in Prague. He was also active in the teaching reform in higher schools in Czechoslovakia.

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• Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002, p. 553