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Anonymous Congratulations to the thousand! . . . . 1--2
E. S. Kennedy and
Yusuf $^c$Id A letter of al-b\=\ir\=un\=\i H*abash
al-H*\=asib's analemma for the qibla . . 3--11
Anonymous History of Science Society Meeting San
Francisco 27--29 Dec. 1973 . . . . . . . 12--12
Nachum L. Rabinovitch An Archimedean tract of Immanuel
Tov-elem (14th Cent.) . . . . . . . . . 13--27
Anonymous The Charles S. Peirce newsletter . . . . 27--27
Anonymous Newsletter on teaching history of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--28
R. L. Wilder Hereditary stress as a cultural force in
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--46
Lam Lay Yong Yang Hui's commentary on the Ying Nu
chapter of the \booktitleChiu Chang Suan
Shu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--64
Kurt-R. Biermann Übersiedlung eines deutschen
Mathematikers von Braunschweig nach
Kaza'n im Jahre 1807/08: Zur Biographie
von M. Bartels, Des Lehrers von Gauss
und Lobacevskij. (German) [Settlement of
a German mathematician of Braunschweig
in Kaza'n in the years 1807/08:
Biography of M. Bartels, the teacher of
Gauss and Lobacevskij] . . . . . . . . . 65--77
Anonymous Canadian Society for the History and
Philosophy of Mathematics/Société
Canadienne d'Histoire et de Philosophie
des Mathématiques . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous History of Mathematics at the 3--5 June
1974 Toronto Meeting of the Canadian
Society for the History and Philosophy
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--78
Anonymous History of Mathematics in the USA . . . 78--78
Barnabas B. Hughes The earliest known record of California
Indian numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--82
Fred Ustina Henry Wilbraham and Gibbs Phenomenon in
1848 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Anonymous History at the Mathematical ASSN.
Conference Royal Holloway College,
Egham, Surrey, England 8--11 April 1994 84--84
J. R. Friday A note on mathematical papers in the
archives of the Royal Institution of
Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Anonymous Harvard University Archives . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Photographic Archive of Historians of
Science at Indiana University . . . . . 86--86
Hubert C. Kennedy A prospective biography of Giuseppe
Peano (1858--1932) . . . . . . . . . . . 87--89
Anonymous Doctoral theses . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous History of semiotics . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Harvard University Press Prize to I. B.
Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Minkowski papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
S. S. Demidov Summer Conference on the History of
Mathematics and Mechanics in the XIX and
XX Centuries Tartu, Estonian S.S.R.,
3--10 July 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
Anonymous The Egyptian use of unit fractions for
equitable distribution: a communication
from Gerald R. Rising, State University
of New York at Buffalo . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous Response by R. J. Gillings, Sydney,
Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Claude Lemaire Book Review: \booktitleAbriss der
Geschichte der Mathematik. Fünfte,
erweiterte Auflage. Mit einem Anhang über
die Mathematik des 20. Jahrhunderts von
I. Pogrebysski: By Dirk J. Struik.
Berlin (VEB Deutscher Verlag der
Wissenschaften), 1972. 255 pp. DM 12.80 95--96
Arthur P. Gittleman Book Review: \booktitleDiofant i
diofantovy uravneniya: By I. G.
Bashmakova. Moscow (Nauka), 1972, 68 pp.
12 k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
Clas-Olof Selenius Book Review: \booktitleRazvitie teorii
chisel v rossii: By E. P. Ozhigova.
Leningrad (Izd Nauka), 1972. 360 pp. 1r,
80k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--97
E. J. Barbeau Book Review: \booktitleClassical and
modern integration theories: By Ivan N.
Pesin. New York (Academic Press,
Probability and Mathematical Statistics
Series #8), 1970. 215 pp. \$13.25} . . . 97--98
Henry S. Tropp Book Review: \booktitleA computer
perspective: By the office of Charles
and Ray Eames. Cambridge, Mass. (Harvard
University Press), 1973, 174 pp.,
illustrated. \$15} . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Carl B. Boyer Book Review: \booktitleDifferential
equations: with applications and
historical notes: By George F. Simmons.
New York (McGraw-Hill), 1972, 482 pp . . 100--102
J. L. Berggren Book Review: \booktitleMathematics in
civilization: By H. L. Resnikoff and R.
O. Wells, Jr. New York (Holt, Rinehart
and Winston), 1973. 384 pp. \$12.50} . . 102--106
Robert McGuigan Book Review: \booktitleA history of set
theory: By Philip E. Johnson. Boston
(Prindle, Weber & Schmidt), 1972. 118 pp 106--108
G. P. Matvievskaya Book Review: \booktitleArabic
arithmetic. The arithmetic of Abu
al-Wafa' al-Buzajani, 10th century: Mss.
OR. 103 Leiden and 42 M Cairo. Edited
with introduction, commentaries, and
ample reference to the arithmetic of
Al-Karaji (11th century), Ms. 855
Istanbul. By A. S. Saidan. Amman
(Jordanian University), 1971. 468 pp.
(Entirely in Arabic) . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
Anonymous English summary of the review . . . . . 112--112
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--126
Anonymous Should we be mathematicians, historians
of science, historians, or generalists? 127--128
Stillman Drake Mathematics and discovery in Galileo's
physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--150
Anonymous A quote on history of mathematics
courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--150
Edward R. Hogan The beginnings of mathematics in a
howling wilderness . . . . . . . . . . . 151--166
Frank J. Swetz The introduction of mathematics in
higher education in China, 1865--1887 167--179
Anonymous Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180
Anonymous Phi Beta Kappa Award . . . . . . . . . . 180--180
W. H. Brock and
R. M. Macleod The life and journals of Thomas Archer
Hirst, FRS (1830--1892) . . . . . . . . 181--183
David A. King Smithsonian Institution project in
medieval Islamic astronomy . . . . . . . 183--184
Anonymous Instructional AIDS for the history of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184
Lewis Pyenson Joint Atlantic Conference on the History
of Physics (JAS), Montréal, Canada,
22--23 March 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Anonymous American mathematical heritage symposium
on history of statistics and
probability, 27--29 May 1974 . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
Anonymous Jourdain's copy of Whitehead and
Russell's \booktitlePrincipia
Mathematica: a Communication From I.
Grattan-Guinness, Middlesex Polytechnic
at Enfield, England . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Obituary notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--187
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleCreative
teaching: Heritage of R. L. Moore: By
Reginald D. Traylor with William Bane
and Madeline Jones. Houston, Texas
(University of Houston), 1972. 478 pp.
\$8.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--192
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleBibliography and
research manual of the history of
mathematics: By Kenneth O. May. Toronto
(University of Toronto Press), 1973. 827
pp. Can. \$20} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleBolyai, sau
aventura geometriilor neeuclidiene
[(Romanian) [Bolyai, non-Euclidean
geometries and adventure]]: By Florica
T. Campan. Cluj (Editura Albatros),
1971. 139 pp. lei 6,75 . . . . . . . . . 194--194
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDemotic
mathematical papyri: By Richard A.
Parker. Providence, Rhode Island (Brown
University Press, Brown Egyptological
Studies VII) and London (Lund
Humphries), 1972. 100 pp., 27 plates.
Cloth \pounds 10.00 . . . . . . . . . . 195--199
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitle$ O R \to C J $.
The foundations and mathematical models
of operations research with extensions
to the criminal justice system: By Haig
Edward Bohigan. Yonkers, New York
(Gazette Press), 1971. 305 pp . . . . . 199--200
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe Euler--Mayer
correspondence (1751--1755): a new
perspective on Eighteenth-Century
advances in the lunar theory: By Eric C.
Forbes. New York (American Elsvier
Publishing Company, Inc.), 1971. 125
pp., index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--202
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGöttingen and New
York: a film in color (43 minutes)
produced by the Mathematical Association
of America, 1966. (Rental from Modern
Film Rentals, 2323 New Hyde Park Road,
New Hyde Park, N.Y. 11040. Purchase from
Modern Learning Aids, P.O. Box 302,
Rochester, N.Y. 14603.) . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDevelopment of
modern mathematics: By J. M. Dubbey. New
York (Crane, Russak, & Co.), 1973
[reprint of English edition: London
(Butterworth & Co.), 1970]. 145 pp.
\$6.25} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--204
Donald E. Knuth Book Review: \booktitleThe origins of
digital computers: Selected papers:
Edited by Brian Randell. New York
(Springer-Verlag), 1973. 464 p . . . . . 204--207
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDie hilbertische
probleme: Edited by P. S. Alexandrov.
German edition translated by H.
Bernhardt and W. Purkert and edited by
H. Wussing. Leipzig (Akademische
Verlagsgesellschaft Geest & Portig
K.-G.), 1971. 306 p . . . . . . . . . . 207--208
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleA concise history
of science in India: Edited by D. M.
Bose, S. N. Sen, and B. V. Subbarayappa.
New Delhi (Indian National Science
Academy), 1971. 689 pp . . . . . . . . . 208--212
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDevelopment of
mathematical logic: By R. L. Goodstein.
London (Logos Press), 1971. 157 p . . . 212--214
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleA handbook of
terms used in algebra and analysis:
Compiled by A. G. Howson. Cambridge
(Cambridge University Press). 1972. 247
p. \$14.50 (cloth), \$4.95 (paper) . . . 214--214
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe paradox of
the liar: Edited by R. L. Martin. New
Haven and London (Yale University
Press), 1970. 149 p . . . . . . . . . . 215--218
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--252
Anonymous The Canadian connection . . . . . . . . 253--253
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--254
Anonymous Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254--254
S. S. Petrova Sur l'histoire des démonstrations
analytiques du théor\`eme fondamental de
l'alg\`ebre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--261
Anonymous History of Mathematics Meetings in India 262--262
Anonymous History of mathematics at Tokyo 19--26
August 1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--262
Anonymous Meetings in Argentina . . . . . . . . . 262--262
H. Howard Frisinger Mathematicians in the history of
meteorology: the pressure-height problem
from Pascal to Laplace . . . . . . . . . 263--286
Radha Charan Gupta An Indian form of third order Taylor
series approximation of the sine . . . . 287--289
Anonymous News from Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--290
Jeffrey H. Baumwell Anniversaries and 100 years ago . . . . 290--290
Árpád Szabó ``Die Muse der Pythagoreer'' [1] Zur
Frühgeschichte der Geometrie. (German)
[The Muse of the Pythagoreans [1] Toward
an early history of geometry] . . . . . 291--316
Anonymous Lecture series at the university of
Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--316
David A. King On medieval Islamic multiplication
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--323
Anonymous Archive of Contemporary History,
University of Wyoming . . . . . . . . . 324--324
Anonymous Biography of Emmy Noether . . . . . . . 324--324
Leo Rogers History of Mathematics at Teachers
Conferences in England, Easter 1974 . . 325--326
Anonymous Advanced degrees in history of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--326
Anonymous Canadian society for the history and
philosophy of mathematics/Société
Canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie
des mathématiques . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--332
Garrett Birkhoff Book Review: \booktitleOrigins of modern
algebra: By Lubos Novy. Prague
(Academia), 1973. 260 p . . . . . . . . 333--337
Kurt-R. Biermann Book Review: \booktitleMathematicians
from antiquity to today. A preliminary
edition. Vol. I: By J. Fang, in
collaboration with U. Dudley. Hauppauge,
New York (Paideia Press), 1972. 341 p.
\$12.80} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--339
V. Linis Book Review: \booktitleAkademik V. A.
Steklov: By V. S. Vladimirov and I. I.
Markush. Moscow (Znanie), 1973. 63 p.
Russ. 10 kop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--341
Saul Rosen Book Review: \booktitleThe IBM Watson
Laboratory at Columbia University: a
history: By Jean Ford Brennan.
International Business Machines Corp.,
1971. 75 p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--342
James K. Bidwell Book Review: \booktitleThe Mathematical
Association of America: Its first fifty
years: Edited by Kenneth O. May. The
Mathematical Association of American,
1972. 180 p. \$8.00} . . . . . . . . . . 342--344
Hideo Hirose Book Review: \booktitleChinese science:
Exploration of an ancient tradition:
Edited by Shigeru Nakayama and Nathan
Sivin. Cambridge, Mass. (MIT Press).
1973. 378 p. \$12.50} . . . . . . . . . 344--346
A. S. Saidan Book Review: \booktitleAl-B a hir in
algebra: By as-Samaw'al. Edited with
notes and introduction by Salah Ahmad
and Roshdi Rashed. Damas, Syria
(Ministry of Higher Education of the
Syrian Arab Republic. Printed at the
University of Damas). 1972. 335 p. Fr.
15. \$3.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--347
R. C. H. Tanner Book Review: \booktitleHumanism and the
rise of science in Tudor England: By
Antonia McLean. New York (Neale Watson
Academic Publications) and London
(Heineman Educational Books). 1972. 258
pp. U.S. \$10.50, U.K. \pounds 3.75} . . 348--350
Mario Bunge Book Review: \booktitlePhilosophy and
mathematics: From Plato to the present:
By Robert J. Baum. San Francisco,
California (Freeman, Cooper & Co.), 1973.
332 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350--350
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--386
Hubert C. Kennedy Peano's concept of number . . . . . . . 387--408
Eberhard Knobloch and
West Berlin The mathematical studies of G. W.
Leibniz on combinatorics . . . . . . . . 409--430
Stephen M. Stigler Gergonne's 1815 paper on the design and
analysis of polynomial regression
experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--439
J. D. Gergonne The application of the method of least
squares to the interpolation of
sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--447
Anonymous Archives of mathematics journals . . . . 448--448
Anonymous Recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--448
Anonymous University of Indiana photographic
archive of historians of science . . . . 448--448
P. J. Wallis A biobibliography of British mathematics
and its applications up to 1850 . . . . 449--454
Anonymous Questions on mathematics in Africa . . . 454--454
Anonymous Dissertation in progress . . . . . . . . 455--455
Anonymous Dissertations in the USSR 1973/1974 . . 455--455
Anonymous Mathematics education in socialist
countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Anonymous A letter from Ivor Grattan-Guinness,
Middlesex Polytechnic, Enfield, England 456--456
A. Letter and
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Recording duplication . . . . . . . . . 456--456
Anonymous La matemática o las matemáticas? . . . . . 457--458
Anonymous American mathematical heritage symposium
on the history of statistics and
probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--460
Anonymous American Academy of Arts and Sciences
workshop on the historical evolution of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--462
Anonymous Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--462
Anonymous XIVth International congress of the
history of science Tokyo and Kyoto,
19--27 August 1974 . . . . . . . . . . . 462--462
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMathematics in
the time of the pharaohs: By Richard J.
Gillings. Cambridge, Mass. (M.I.T.
Press), 1972. 297 p. US \$25} . . . . . 463--468
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleCarl Friedrich
Gauss: Werke: Edited by the Königliche
Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu
Göttingen, 1863--1933. Reprint by Georg
Olms Verlag, Hildesheim and New York,
1973. 12 vols. 7874 p. Figs., tables. DM
1316 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--470
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe mathematical
career of Pierre de Fermat 1601--1665:
By Michael Sean Mahoney. Princeton
University Press, 1973. 427 p. US \$20} 470--476
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleScientific
instruments of the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries: By Maurice Daumas.
Translated and edited by Mary Holbrook.
New York (Praeger), 1972. 361 pp.,
plates, bibliography. US \$38.50} . . . 476--477
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleInvisible
colleges. Diffusion of knowledge in
scientific communities: By Diana Crane.
University of Chicago Press, 1972. 223
p. US \$9} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--479
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleTime and method:
an essay on the methodology of research:
By Ferdinand Gonseth. Translated by Eva
H. Guggenheimer. Springfield, Illinois
(Charles C. Thomas), 1972. 453 pp . . . 479--480
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--510
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511--511
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume I . . 512--516
Thomas Hawkins Cauchy and the spectral theory of
matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--29
Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
B. L. van der Waerden On the sources of my book
\booktitleModerne algebra . . . . . . . 31--40
LêV\uan Thiêm Report on mathematics in Viet Nam . . . 41--42
I. Grattan-Guinness Mathematical bibliography for W. H. and
G. C. Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--58
Saunders Mac Lane A proposed ``mini-study'' of
mathematical developments . . . . . . . 59--61
Gregory H. Moore A prospective biography of Ernst Zermelo
(1871--1953) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Jon V. Pepper The proposed edition of the life and
works of Thomas Harriot (1560--1621) . . 64--65
Clark Kimberling Matheematical aspects of music . . . . . 65--66
Boris A. Rozenfeld A medieval physico-mathematical
manuscript newly discovered in the
Kuibyshev Regional Library . . . . . . . 67--69
Andrew M. Patterson The Leonard J. Savage papers . . . . . . 70--72
Carl B. Boyer and
Churc'hill Eisenhart and
Phillip S. Jones and
Kenneth O. May and
David Rosenblatt and
Charles Weiner A renewed appeal for the preservation of
archival materials by the CBMS Advisory
Committee on History . . . . . . . . . . 72--73
Anonymous Papers of Albert Einstein . . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous Papers of John von Neumann . . . . . . . 73--73
R. C. Gupta History of mathematics at a summer
school in India . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Canadian society for the history and
philosophy of mathematics société
canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie
des mathématiques . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Kenneth O. May Report of the Commission on the History
of Mathematics to the Division of
History of the International Union for
the History and Philosophy of Science 77--82
Anonymous Joint Atlantic Seminar on the History of
the Physical Sciences New Haven,
Connecticut, March 21--22, 1975 . . . . 82--82
Anonymous Conference on the History of Mathematics 83--83
J. L. Berggren International Congress of Mathematicians
1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
R. C. Gupta Seminar on Jaina Studies . . . . . . . . 83--83
Albert C. Lewis Bringing modern mathematics to bear on
historical research . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Yu. M. Gaiduk Further references on Wilbraham and
Gibbs phenomenon . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
E. S. Kenenedy Book Review: \booktitleIz istorii
tochnykh nauk na srednevekovom blizhnem
i srednem vostoke: [From the History of
the Exact Sciences in the Medieval Near
and Middle East], By S. K. Sirazhdinov.
Tashkent (Academy of Sciences of the
Uzbek S.S.R.). 1972. 247 p. . . . . . . 86--90
A. F. Mona Book Review: \booktitleGiuseppe Peano:
By Hubert C. Kennedy. Basel (Birkhäuser
Verlag). 1974. 31 p. (Beiheft 14 of
Elemente der Mathematik) . . . . . . . . 90--92
Martin Dyck Book Review: \booktitleGoethe kak
estestvoispytatel: [Goethe as a Natural
Scientist]. By I. I. Kanaev. Leningrad
(Izdatelstvo ``Nauka''). 1970. 466 pp. 92--95
Laszlo Vekerdi Book Review: \booktitleThe vortex theory
of planetary motions: By E. J. Aiton.
London (Macdonald) and New York
(American Elsevier). 1972. 282 p.
\$18.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--97
P. E. Hodgson Book Review: \booktitleCausality and
scientific explanation: By William A.
Wallace. Vol. I. Medieval and Early
Classical Science. Vol. II. Classical
and Contemporary Science. University of
Michigan Press. 1972/4. \$13.20 and
\$14.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--100
Colin A. Russell Book Review: \booktitleThe origins of
feedback control: By Otto Mayr.
Cambridge, Mass. and London (MIT Press).
1970. 158 p. \$7.95} . . . . . . . . . . 100--100
F. N. David Book Review: \booktitleProbability and
statistical inference in ancient and
medieval Jewish literature: By N. L.
Rabinovitch. University of Toronto
Press. 1973. 218 p. \$12.50} . . . . . . 101--101
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--126
Tyrone Lai Did Newton renounce infinitesimals? . . 127--136
Johann Jakob Burckhardt Address on the 65th birthday of J. E.
Hofmann at Oberwolfach . . . . . . . . . 137--146
C. J. Scriba Chronology of J. E. Hofmann,
biobibliographic note, and supplementary
bibliography of his publications . . . . 147--152
Anonymous Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--152
Gustave Choquet Notice sur les travaux scientifiques . . 153--160
Michael J. Crowe Ten ``laws'' concerning patterns of
change in the history of mathematics . . 161--166
Clas-Olof Selenius Rationale of the Chakravala process of
Jayadeva and Bhaskara II . . . . . . . . 167--184
Kenneth O. May Historiographic vices I. Logical
attribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--187
M. D. Hendy Euclid and the fundamental theorem of
arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--191
Anonymous Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--193
B. J. Norton History of the biometric school of
statistics and its influences on the
social sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--196
Anonymous `Mathematics' --- Singular or plural?: a
note from Lewis Pyenson, Université de
Montréal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199
Anonymous CSHPM/SCHPM Correction! . . . . . . . . 199--199
Charles V. Jones Reviews of old books . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
I. Grattan-Guinness The mathematical papers and library of
Sir Edward Collingwood in the University
of Durham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--202
J. D. Gray Archives of mathematical journals . . . 202--202
René Taton Book Review: \booktitleLazare Carnot
savant: By Charles Coulston Gillispie. A
monograph treating Carnot's scientific
work, with facsimile reproduction of his
unpublished writings on mechanics and on
the calculus, and an essay concerning
the latter by A. P. Youschkevitch.
Princeton (Princeton University Press).
1971. 370 p. U.S. \$17.50} . . . . . . . 204--207
R. L. Wilder Book Review: \booktitleAfrica counts: By
Claudia Zaslavsky. Boston (Prindle,
Weber and Schmidt). 1973, 338 p, U.S.
\$12.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--210
Churchill Eisenhart Book Review: \booktitleStatistical
papers in honor of George W. Snedecor:
Edited by T. A. Bancroft assisted by
Susan Alice Brown. Iowa State University
Press, 1972. 345 p. US \$10.50} . . . . 211--218
Shin-ichi Ôya Book Review: \booktitleMing Kan no
Syuzan Syo [a]: [Chinese Abacus Books
Published in the Ming Age] By Akihito
Kodama. Part 1: On the Chinese abacus
books published in the Ming age (in
Japanese), 115 p. Part 2: Chinese abacus
books published in the last half of the
16th century of the Ming age (in
Chinese), photocopy, 127 p. Tokyo (Fuji
Junior College Press). 1972 242 p.
\yen1500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
Daniel Pedoe Book Review: \booktitleEuclid and his
modern rivals: By Lewis Carroll (Charles
L. Dodgson). New York (Dover
Publications). 1973 275 p. U.S. \$3.50} 219--222
J. W. Herivel Book Review: \booktitleJoseph Fourier
1768--1830: a Survey of His Life and
Work Based on a Critical Edition of His
Monograph on the Propagation of Heat,
Presented to the Institut de France in
1807. By I. Grattan-Guinness in
collaboration with J. R. Ravetz.
Cambridge, Mass. & London (MIT Press).
1972 528 p. \pounds 9 . . . . . . . . . 222--223
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--252
Anonymous Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Donald W. Crowe The geometry of African art II. A
catalog of Benin patterns . . . . . . . 253--271
Anonymous Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Anonymous Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272--272
Joseph W. Dauben The invariance of dimension: Problems in
the early development of set theory and
topology [1] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--288
H. S. M. Coxeter The space-time continuum . . . . . . . . 289--298
Heinrich Hermelink The earliest reckoning books existing in
the Persian language . . . . . . . . . . 299--303
M. Mikolás Some historical aspects of the
development of mathematical analysis in
Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--308
Peeter Müüsepp D'Alembert's letter to Euler of 3 March
1766 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--311
Dan Pedoe Ausz disem wirdt vil dings gemacht
[(German) [For this is done much
recently]]: a Dürer construction for
tangent circles . . . . . . . . . . . . 312--314
Kenneth O. May Historiographic vices II. Priority
chasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--317
Anonymous Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--320
Anonymous Bertrand Russell Memorial Logic
Conference: Essay Prize . . . . . . . . 320--320
Peter J. Wallis The book subscription lists project ---
Its relevance for historians of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321--326
Christoph J. Scriba The place and function of a `historical
introduction' in the curriculum for
mathematics students . . . . . . . . . . 327--331
Graham Flegg History of mathematics course (AM289) at
the open university, Great Britain . . . 332--333
Barnabas Hughes A course in history of mathematics for
mathematics teachers . . . . . . . . . . 333--335
Anonymous CSHPM/SCHPM Meeting in Edmonton 6--7
June 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--338
G. P. Matvievskaya Book Review: \booktitle`Boethius'
Geometrie II: By Menso Folkerts.
Boethius Texte und Abhandlungen zur
Geschichte der Exakten Wissenschaften,
Bank IX. Wiesbaden (Franz Steiner). 287
pp. DM.80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--341
Charles C. Gillispie Book Review: \booktitleDiderot: By
Arthur M. Wilson. Oxford University
Press, 1972. 935 p . . . . . . . . . . . 342--344
Martin Dyck Book Review: \booktitleEinstein. Zhizn,
smert, bessmertie: [Einstein: Life,
Death, Immortality]. By B. G. Kuznetsov.
Moskva (Izdatelstvo ``Nauka''), 1972.
607 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--347
Mary E. Williams Book Review: \booktitleWomen in
mathematics: By Lynn M. Osen. Cambridge,
Massachusetts (MIT Press), 1974. 185 pp.
\$5.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348--349
Esther Portnoy Book Review: \booktitleGeorgii
Nikolaevich Nikoladze: By A. N.
Bogolyubov. Moscow (``Nauka''), 1973.
166 p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--349
Umberto Forti Book Review: \booktitleBabbage, la
macchina analitica [(Italian) [Babbage:
the Analytical Engine]]: By Mario G.
Losano. Milan (Etas Kompas), 1973, 191 p 350--353
Lam Lay Yong Book Review: \booktitleChinese
mathematics in the Thirteenth Century:
the \booktitleShu-shu chiu-chang of
Ch'in Chiu-Shao: by Ulrich Libbrecht.
Cambridge, Massachusetts (MIT Press),
1973. 586 p. \$25} . . . . . . . . . . . 353--355
S. P. Zervos Book Review: \booktitleEnglish--Greek
mathematical dictionary: By C. P.
Tzelekis. Athens, 1973. 235 p . . . . . 355--355
George St Andonie Matematica si viata . . . . . . . . . . 356--358
Gregory H. Moore Book Review: \booktitleMen and
discoveries in mathematics: By Bryan
Morgan. London (John Murray), 1972. 235
p. Photos, figures. U.K. \pounds 2 . . . 358--359
C. Truesdell Book Review: \booktitleLeibniz and
dynamics: By Pierre Costabel. Translated
by R. E. W. Maddison. Paris (Hermann)
and London (Methuen) and Ithaca, N. Y.
(Cornell University Press), 1973. 141 p 360--361
Evandro Agazzi Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
mathematical logic from Leibnitz to
Peano: By N. I. Styazhkin. Translated
from the Russian. Cambridge, Mass. (MIT
Press), 1969. 341 p . . . . . . . . . . 361--365
Ho Peng Yoke Book Review: \booktitleMathematics
education in China: Its growth and
development: By Frank Swetz. Cambridge,
Mass. (MIT Press), 1974. 364 p.
Appendices, Index. \$15.00} . . . . . . 365--366
Ronald Calinger Book Review: \booktitleDie mathematik
und ihre Dozenten an der Berliner
Universität 1810--1920: By Kurt-R.
Biermann. Berlin (Akademie-Verlag), SCV2
1973. 265 p. with 14 portraits . . . . . 367--369
Lewis Pyenson Book Review: \booktitleThe history of
quantum theory: By Friedrich Hund.
Translated by Gordon Reece. London
(Harrap), 1974. Illustrations, index.
260 p. Can. \$15.00} . . . . . . . . . . 370--375
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--424
John Voss Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--427
Garrett Birkhoff and
Sue Ann Garwood Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--430
Anonymous Participants in the workshop . . . . . . 431--432
Anonymous Opening remarks for the conference by
Garrett Birkhoff and I. B. Cohen . . . . 433--436
Garrett Birkhoff Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--438
Judith V. Grabiner The mathematician, the historian, and
the history of mathematics . . . . . . . 439--447
Kenneth O. May What is good history and who should do
it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--455
Elaine Koppelman Progress in mathematics . . . . . . . . 457--463
Henry Tropp The role of oral communication . . . . . 465--468
Michael J. Crowe Ten ``laws'' concerning conceptual
change in mathematics . . . . . . . . . 469--470
Phillip S. Jones A role for the history of mathematics 471--472
Katsuhiko Yoshida Quantitative growth of modern
mathematics in Japan prior to 1930 . . . 472--472
Garrett Birkhoff Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--474
I. Grattan-Guinness Preliminary notes on the historical
significance of quantification and of
the axioms of choice in the development
of mathematical analysis . . . . . . . . 475--488
I. Grattan-Guinness Russell's logical progress: Some new
light from manuscript sources . . . . . 489--493
Hans Freudenthal The cradle of modern topology, according
to Brouwer's inedita . . . . . . . . . . 495--502
Garrett Birkhoff Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--505
Errett Bishop The crisis in contemporary mathematics 507--517
Nancy Kopell and
Gabriel Stolzenberg Commentary on Bishop's talk . . . . . . 519--521
Gerald Sacks Remarks against foundational activity 523--528
Hilary Putnam What is mathematical truth? . . . . . . 529--533
Garrett Birkhoff Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535--536
Jean Dieudonné Introductory remarks on algebra,
topology and analysis . . . . . . . . . 537--548
Alan Baker Some historical remarks on number theory 549--553
George Mackey Some remarks on harmonic analysis . . . 555--562
Thomas Hawkins Mathematical progress without fusion . . 563--566
Shreeram S. Abhyankar High-school algebra in algebraic
geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567--572
Garrett Birkhoff Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573--574
Morris Kline Opening remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . 575--575
Felix E. Browder The relation of functional analysis to
concrete analysis in 20th century
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577--590
Antoni Zygmund The role of Fourier series in the
development of analysis . . . . . . . . 591--594
J. P. Kahane A central object in mathematics: the
Brownian motion . . . . . . . . . . . . 595--600
Joaquin B. Diaz How mathematics progresses . . . . . . . 601--602
Sue Ann Garwood Additional discussion questions . . . . 603--604
Garrett Birkhoff and
Sue Ann Garwood Bibliographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605--615
Anonymous CSHPM/SCHPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--617
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--617
Anonymous Thanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617--617
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619--619
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed or abstracted in volume I . . . 620--624
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624--624
Anonymous Editorial: Questions of policy . . . . . 1--4
Pierre Dugac Probl\`emes de l'histoire de l'analyse
mathématique au XIX\`eme si\`ecle. Cas de
Karl Weierstrass et de Richard Dedekind 5--19
Anonymous A current history project suggestion . . 20--20
A. G. Molland Shifting the foundations: Descartes's
transformation of ancient geometry . . . 21--49
Anonymous CSHPM/SCHPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--49
Katsuhiko Yoshida Quantitative growth of modern
mathematics in Japan prior to 1930 . . . 51--54
Jean Mayer Développements récents de la théorie des
graphies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--62
Richard P. Ross Oronce Fine's \booktitleDe speculo
ustorio: a heretofore ignored early
French Renaissance printed treatise on
mathematical optics . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
Stephen M. Stigler The anonymous Professor Gergonne . . . . 71--74
Boris A. Rozenfeld The list of physico-mathematical works
of Ibl Al-Haytham written by himself . . 75--76
Anonymous Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Phillips S. Jones Bibhutibhusan datta . . . . . . . . . . 77--78
Salah Ahmad and
Roshdi Rashed A. S. Saidan's review of
\booktitleAl-Bahir en alg\`ebre
d'as-samaw'al . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--80
M. Folkerts Report on the 19th colloquium on the
history of mathematics at the
Mathematical Research Institute
Oberwolfach (Black Forest) . . . . . . . 81--85
Anonymous Bicentennial program at the MAA meeting
in San Antonio, Texas 24--26 January
1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85
Anonymous Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Hubert C. Kennedy Book Review: \booktitleIstoriya
matematiki s drevneishikh vremen do
nachala XIX stoletiya: By A. P.
Yushkevich et al. Tom tretii: Matematika
XVIII stoletiya [History of Mathematics
from Ancient Times to the Beginning of
the 19th Century. Volume 3: Mathematics
of the 18th century]. Moscow (Nauka).
1972. 495 p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--90
David Pingree Book Review: \booktitleScience awakening
II. The birth of astronomy: By Bartel L.
van der Waerden, with contributions by
Peter Huber. Leyden (Noordhoff
International Publishing) and New York
(Oxford University Press). 1974. 362 p.
31 plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
William L. Schaaf Book Review: \booktitleL'arithmétique
amusante: [Arithmetical recreations]. By
Edouard Lucas. Facsimile reprint. Paris
(Albert Blanchard). 1974. 266 p. fr. 22 91--93
Bernard Aupetit Book Review: \booktitleFunctional
analysis in historical perspective: By
A. F. Monna. Utrecht (Oosthoek
Publishing Co). 1973. 17S p . . . . . . 93--95
Maurice Kendall Book Review: \booktitleThe heritage of
Copernicus: Theories ``pleasing to the
mind'': Edited by Jerzy Neyman.
Cambridge, Mass. and London (The M. I.
T. Press). 552 p . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Lewis Pyenson Book Review: \booktitlePhysics at
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
Leiden: Edward G. Ruestow. The Hague
(Martinus Nijhoff.) 1973. 177 p. Gld.
24.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--100
Mario Bunge Book Review: \booktitleFrom mathematics
to philosophy: By Hao Wang. London
(Routledge and Kegan Paul), New York
(Humanities Press) 1974. 442 p. U.S.
\$23.90} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--102
N. T. Gridgeman Book Review: \booktitleA Boolean
anthology: Selected writings of Mary
Boole. By D. G. Tahta. London
(Association of Teachers of
Mathematics.) 1972. 79 p. 0.50 . . . . . 102--103
Winifred L. Wisan Book Review: \booktitleGalileo
Revisited: an essay review of Galileo's
intellectual revolution: Middle period,
1610--1632: By William R. Shea. New York
(Science History Publications). 1972.
204 pp. \$15} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--109
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--132
Anonymous To Dirk J. Struik at eighty-two . . . . 133--133
Ivo Schneider The introduction of probability into
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--140
E. J. Barbeau and
P. J. Leah Euler's 1760 paper on divergent series 141--160
Anonymous History of mathematics at teachers'
conferences in England Easter 1975 . . . 160--160
Victor S. Albis-González and
Luis I. Soriano-Lleras The work of Indalecio Liévano on the
foundations of real numbers . . . . . . 161--166
Henry S. Tropp The origins and history of the fields
medal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--181
Anonymous Upcoming meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182
Francine Abeles Multiplication in changing bases: a note
on Lewis Carroll . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Phillip S. Jones Louis Charles Karpinski, historian of
mathematics and cartography . . . . . . 185--202
Anonymous CSHPM/SCHPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
J. D. Gray Comments on collected works, in
particular those of Émile Borel and
Jacques Hadamard . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--206
Gregory H. Moore Ernst Zermelo, A. E. Harward, and the
axiomatization of set theory . . . . . . 206--209
B. L. van der Waerden D. Pingree's review of my book:
\booktitleScience awakening II . . . . . 209--211
I. Grattan-Guinness Corrections to the workshop proceedings 211--211
Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--212
Thomas Hawkins The Friedrich Engel archive in Giessen 213--214
R. C. Gupta Indian doctoral theses on history of
mathematics 1950--1975 . . . . . . . . . 215--215
Anonymous Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--216
J. J. Gray The 1975 annual general meeting of the
British society for the history of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218
Albert C. Lewis History of mathematics at the American
association for the advancement of
science annual meeting, Boston 18--24
February 1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--219
Anonymous Ninth annual conference of the Leningrad
section of the Soviet national society
for the history and philosophy of
science and technology, 4--5 February
1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--219
Anonymous American mathematical heritage symposium
on the history of algebra at the
University of Texas at El Paso, November
15--16 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
Anonymous International Scientific Conference on
Al-Farabi and the Development of Science
and Culture in the East Alma Ata, 11--13
September 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
L. Reizins Book Review: \booktitleEssays on the
development of the analytical theory of
differential equations: By V. A.
Dobrovolskii. Kiev (``Vishcha Shkola,''
Kiev State University). 455 p . . . . . 221--223
James MacLachlan Book Review: \booktitleLes nouvelles
pensées de Galilée: Par Marin Mersenne.
Edition critique avec introduction et
notes. Par Pierre Costabel et
Michel-Paul Lerner. Avant-propos de
Bernard Rochot. Paris (Librairie
Philosophique J. Vrin). 1973. Vol. I,
130 pp.; Vol. II (Notes et Index), pp.
131--319 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--224
Sanford L. Segal Book Review: \booktitleDevelopment of
mathematics in the German Democratic
Republic: Edited by Horst Sachs. Berlin
(VEB Deutscher Verlag der
Wissenschaften). 776 p . . . . . . . . . 225--226
Norman L. Thomas Book Review: \booktitleOn a research
program in early modern physics: By Aant
Elzinga. Stockholm (Kungl. Boktryckeriet
P. A. Norstedt and Soner). 1972. 144p 226--229
Maria Cinquini Cibrario Book Review: \booktitleSelected works of
Giuseppe Peano: Translated and edited by
Hubert C. Kennedy. Toronto (University
of Toronto Press). 1973. 249 p. \$12.50} 230--232
R. L. Plackett Book Review: \booktitleProbability
theory: a historical sketch: By L. E.
Maistrov. Translated and edited by
Samuel Kotz. New York and London
(Academic Press). 1974. 294 pp . . . . . 233--234
Mario Bunge Book Review: \booktitleLa mathématisation
des doctrines informes: Colloque tenu
\`a l'Institut d'histoire des sciences
de l'Université de Paris sous la
direction de George Canguilhem. Paris
(Hermann). 1972. 237 pp . . . . . . . . 235--235
Chandler Davis Book Review: \booktitleDevelopment of
mathematics in the Moldavian SSR. Short
sketch: By V. P. Bychkov and K. S.
Sibirskii. Kishinev (Izd. Shtiinstsa).
1974. 47 p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--236
John T. Blackmore Book Review: \booktitleThe Einstein
decade: By Cornelius Lanczos. New York
and London (Academic Press), 1974.
\$12.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--236
W. Allan Gabbey Book Review: \booktitleIsaac Newton's
philosophiae naturalis principia
mathematica: the Third Edition (1726)
with variant readings. Assembled and
edited by Alexandre Koyré and I. Bernard
Cohen, with the assistance of Anne
Whitman. 2 volumes. Cambridge, Mass.
(Harvard University Press) and Cambridge
(Cambridge University Press). 1972. 916
pp. U.S.\$60. \pounds 25} . . . . . . . 237--243
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244--258
Isabella G. Bashmakova and
A. T. Grigoryan and
A. I. Markushevich and
F. A. Medvedev and
B. A. Rozenfeld Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich (on the
occasion of his seventieth anniversary) 259--278
H. L. L. Busard Über die Überlieferung der Elemente
Euklids über die Länder des Nahen Ostens
nach West-Europa. (German) [On the lore
of the \booktitleElements of Euclid in
the countries of the nearby East to West
Europe] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--290
Stanis\law Glushkov On approximation methods of Leonardo
Fibonacci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--296
Anonymous Imposition of decimal numeration on
primitive tribes . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--296
Herbert Mehrtens T. S. Kuhn's theories and mathematics: a
discussion paper on the ``new
historiography'' of mathematics . . . . 297--320
Anonymous Person index for Delambre's
\booktitleRapport Historique of 1810 . . 321--324
Anonymous Association for Women in Mathematics . . 324--324
Ivor Grattan-Guinness History of mathematics and histories of
other sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--327
Anonymous C. S. Pierce National Monument . . . . . 327--327
Marshall Stone A reminiscence on the extension of the
Weierstrass Approximation Theorem . . . 328--328
John Wilson New light on the origin of the
four-color conjecture . . . . . . . . . 329--330
Anonymous Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--331
Anonymous Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
Anonymous Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--333
Anonymous Annual meeting of the Canadian Society
for the history and philosophy of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--336
Anonymous Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--338
Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--340
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--341
Toshio Umezawa Book Review: \booktitleGiuseppe Peano:
By Hubert C. Kennedy. Basel (Birkhäuser
Verlag) 31 p. (Beiheft 14 of Elemente
der Mathematik) . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--342
Philip C. Enros Book Review: \booktitleRapport
historique sur les progr\`es des
sciences mathématiques depuis 1789, et
sur leur état actuel, etc.: By J. B. J.
Delambre. Reprint of the original Paris
edition of 1810. Amsterdam (B. M.
Israël). 1966. viii + 362 pp . . . . . . 342--344
Ernest Stipani\'c Vzaimosvyaz filosofii i matematiki v
protsesse istoricheskogo razvitiya ot
epokhi vosrozhdeniya do nachala XX veka
(Russian) [The relationship between
philosophy and mathematics in the
process of historical development from
the Renaissance to the beginning of the
XXth century] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--350
H. Freudenthal Book Review: \booktitleLa topologie
algébrique des origins \`a Poincaré: By
Jean-Claude Pont. Bibliothéque de
Philosophie contemporaine. (Presse
Universitaire de France). 1974 . . . . . 350--352
Wei-Ching Chang Book Review: \booktitleThe life and
times of the Central Limit Theorem: By
William J. Adams. New York (Kaedmon).
1974. 119 p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Nicholas H. Clulee Book Review: \booktitleThe mathematical
praeface to the \booktitleElements of
Geometrie of Euclid of Megara (1570): By
John Dee. Introduction by Allen G.
Debus. New York (Science History
Publication). 1975. 94 p. US\$8.95} . . 355--357
Phillip S. Jones Book Review: \booktitleMathematics and
mathematicians: By P. Dedron and J.
Itard, translated by J. V. Field. London
(Transworld Publishers Ltd.) 1974. Vol.
I, 326 p.; Vol. II, 222 p. \pounds 1.50,
\pounds 1.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--359
Barnabas Hughes Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
mathematics: By Arthur Gittleman.
Columbus, Ohio (Charles E. Merrill).
1975. 291 p. US\$14.95} . . . . . . . . 359--361
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--384
Anonymous Editorial: Reorganization . . . . . . . 385--385
Morris Kline Carl B. Boyer --- in memoriam . . . . . 387--394
Anonymous Chronology of Carl B. Boyer . . . . . . 395--396
Anonymous History of Science Society to honor Carl
Boyer, Philadelphia, 28 December 1976 396--396
Michael J. Crowe Bibliography of the writings of Carl B.
Boyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--401
Anonymous History of biometry at the 9th
International Biometric Conference
Boston, 22--27 August 1976 . . . . . . . 402--402
Edward R. Hogan George Baron and the Mathematical
Correspondent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403--415
Anonymous C. S. Peirce bicentennial international
congress June 16--20, 1976 . . . . . . . 416--416
Anonymous History of statistics at the 40th
session of the International Statistical
Institute Warsaw 1--9 September 1975 . . 416--416
Marvin A. Powell, Jr. The antecedents of old Babylonian place
notation and the early history of
Babylonian mathematics . . . . . . . . . 417--439
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--440
Anonymous Project for historical bibliography . . 440--440
Germaine Aujac Sphérique et sphéropée en Gr\`ece ancienne 441--447
G. de B. Robinson Gauss Bicentennial Symposium Ontario
Science Centre, Toronto, Ontario June 3,
4, 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--448
Werner Jentsch Über ein hallenser manuskript der
dissertation Georg Cantors. (German) [On
a Halle manuscript of the dissertation
of Georg Cantor] . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--462
David E. Kullman Two hundred years of mathematics in
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--468
R. C. Gupta 1500th anniversary of \=Aryabhata I at
Patna (India) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--469
Anonymous Meeting on ``Mathematics in a social
context'' at Regensburg 2--3 July 1976 470--471
Anonymous Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--472
Anonymous Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--476
Paul J. Cambell An experimental course of African
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477--478
Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 479--480
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleOeuvres
compl\`etes d'Augustin Cauchy. II$^e$
série --- tome XV: Edited under the
direction of the Paris Academy of
Sciences and with the assistance of the
Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique. Paris, Brussels and
Montréal (Gauthier-Villars), 1974. vii +
640 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--485
Richard G. Olson Book Review: \booktitleThomas Reid's
inquiry: the geometry of visibles and
the case for realism: By Norman Daniels
with a foreward by Hilary Putnam. New
York (Burt Franklin and Co.). 1974. xix
+ 147 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--487
Bernard R. Goldstein Book Review: \booktitleDer Almagest: Die
\booktitleSyntaxis mathematica des
Claudius Ptolemäus in
arabisch-lateinscher Überlieferung: By
Paul Kunitzsch. Wiesbaden (Otto
Harrassowitz). 1974. xvi + 384 p.; 10
plates. DM 160 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--489
Robert Spira Book Review: \booktitleRiemann's zeta
function: By Harold M. Edwards. New
York. (Academic Press). 1974. 315 pp. 489--490
H. C. Kennedy Book Review: \booktitleKarl Marx.
Mathematische manuskripte: Edited, with
an introduction and commentary, by
Wolfgang Endemann. Kronberg Taunus, BRD
(Spriptor Verlag). 1974. 178 p . . . . . 490--490
H. C. Kennedy Book Review: \booktitleKarl Marx.
Manoscritti matematici: Translated and
edited by Francesco Matarrese and
Augusto Ponzio. Bari, Italy (Dedalo
Libri). 1975. 184 p. 3,000 lire . . . . 490--494
Howard Eves Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
mathematics: Topics for schools: By
Walter Popp. Translated from the German
by Maxim Bruckheimer. London, England
(Transworld Student Library). 1974. 150
pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--496
Gilles Gaston Granger Book Review: \booktitleCondorcet
mathématique et société: Choix de textes et
commentaire. By Roshdi Rashed. Paris
(Hermann). 1974. ISBN 2 7056 1. 218 pp 496--497
B. L. van der Waerden Book Review: \booktitleThe evolution of
the Euclidean \booktitleElements: By
Wilbur Richard Knorr. A Study of the
Theory of Incommensurable Magnitudes and
Its Significance for Early Greek
Geometry. Dordrecht-Holland/ Boston (D.
Reidel Publishing Co.). 1975. xii + 374
p. \$49} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--499
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--508
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume III . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509--509
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume III 510--514
J. L. Berggren A lacuna in Book I of Archimedes' sphere
and cylinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
Anonymous 150th Anniversary of the Birth of
Riemann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
Anonymous American Mathematical Heritage Symposium
on the History of Applied Mathematics at
the University of Texas at Arlington,
2--3 October 1976 . . . . . . . . . . . 6--6
H. J. M. Bos and
H. Mehrtens The interactions of mathematics and
society in history some exploratory
remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--30
Stephen M. Stigler An attack on Gauss, published by
Legendre in 1820 . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--35
Anonymous Gauss Symposium in Ottawa, 30 April 1977 36--36
Peeter Müürsepp Gauss' letter to Fuss of 4 April 1803 37--41
Anonymous News & notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Albert Novikoff and
Jack Barone The Borel Law of Normal Numbers, the
Borel Zero--One Law, and the work of Van
Vleck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--65
Anonymous Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Radha Charan Gupta Parame'svara's rule for the circumradius
of a cyclic quadrilateral . . . . . . . 67--74
Bertram Ross The development of fractional calculus
1695--1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--89
Anonymous Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
R. C. Gupta 1500th Birth Anniversary of \=Aryabhata
at Delhi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--93
L. F. Rogers History of Mathematics at the Third
International Congress for Mathematical
Education Karlsruhe, 16--21 August 1976 94--95
Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLeonhard Euler
Briefwechsel. Opera omnia. Series quarta
A: Commercium epistolicum, vol. I:
Herausgeber: A. P. Jushkevich, V.
Smirnov, W. Habicht. Basel (Birkhäuser).
1975. xvii + 666 pp. 1 plate. \$60} . . 97--100
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMessage d'un
Mathématicien: Henri Lebesgue: By
Lucienne Félix. Paris (Albert Blanchard).
1974. 259 p. 65f. . . . . . . . . . . . 100--102
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleStability of
motion: Edited by A. T. Fuller. London
(Taylor and Francis), New York and
Toronto (John Wiley). 1975 . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleSets and
integration. An outline of the
development: By D. van Dalen and A. F.
Monna. Groningen (Wolters --- Nordhoff).
1972. 162 p. H. F1. 43.30 . . . . . . . 103--103
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleG. W. Leibniz
marginalia in Newtoni principia
mathematica: Édition critique en langue
allemande par E. A. Fellmann. Traduction
française de J. F. Courtine. Collection
des travaux de l'Académie internationale
d'histoire des sciences n$^o$. Paris
(Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin). 1973.
128 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHistoire des
mathématiques: By Jean-Paul Collette.
Montréal (Éditions du Renouveau
Pédagogique). 1973. 238 p. . . . . . . . 105--106
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe Italian
Renaissance of mathematics: By Paul
Lawrence Rose. Geneva (Librairie Droz).
1975. xiii + 316 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 106--107
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleIstoriya
matematiki s drevneishikh vremen do
nachala XIX stoletiya. Tom Pervyi: S
drevneishikh vremen do nachala novogo
vremeni: Edited by A. P. Yushkevich.
Moscow (Nauka). 1970. 351 p. . . . . . . 108--109
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleA survey of the
\booktitleAlmagest. Acta historica
scientiarum naturalium et medicinalium,
vol. 30: By Olaf Pedersen. Copenhagen
(Odense University Press). 1974. 454 p.
Dan. kr. 200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--113
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDie
hauptschriften zur dyadik von G. W.
Leibniz: By Hans J. Zacher. Frankfurt/M.
(Vittorio Klostermann). 1973. 392 p. . . 114--114
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Kenneth O. May . . 115--126
Stanislav Glushkov An interpretation of Vi\`ete's
``\booktitleCalculus of triangles'' as a
precursor of the algebra of complex
numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--136
Hermann Engels Quadrature of the circle in ancient
Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--140
Eric G. Forbes Descartes and the birth of analytic
geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--151
Robert E. Greenwood The kinship of E. H. Moore and R. L.
Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--155
Anonymous Canadian Society Meeting and Gauss
Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Anonymous Gauss bicentennial celebration at
Göttingen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--155
Edward R. Hogan Robert Adrian: American mathematician 157--172
James Maclachlan Mersenne's solution for Galileo's
problem of the rotating Earth . . . . . 173--182
Arthur Schlissel The initial development of the WKB
solutions of linear second order
ordinary differential equations and
their use in the connection problem . . 183--204
Anonymous Third International Leibniz Congress . . 204--204
Frank Harary On ``The Tantalizer'' and ``Instant
Insanity'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--206
Umberto Bottazzini The mathematical papers of Enrico Betti
in the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa 207--209
Dale M. Johnson The correspondence of Camille Jordan . . 210--210
J. J. Gray and
Hon Secretary The British Society for the History of
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--213
R. C. Gupta Silver Jubilee of Bh\=arata Ga\.nita
Pari\.sad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--215
Norman L. Biggs and
E. Keith Lloyd and
Robin J. Wilson C. S. Peirce and de Morgan on the
Four-Colour Conjecture . . . . . . . . . 215--216
Maurice P. Crosland Book Review: \booktitleCondorcet. From
natural philosophy to social
mathematics: By Keith Michael Baker.
Chicago (University of Chicago Press).
1975. 552 p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--218
Hans Freudenthal Book Review: \booktitleNotice sur les
travaux scientifiques, suivi de le
parallelisme absolu et la théorie
unitaire du champ: By Élie Cartan. Paris
(Gauthier-Villars). 1974. Collection
``Discours de la Méthode''. 128 p . . . . 218--218
Stephen G. Brush Book Review: \booktitleJoseph Fourier:
the man and the physicist: By John
Herivel. Oxford (Clarendon Press). 1975.
xii + 350 pp. \$30.95} . . . . . . . . . 219--221
E. J. Barbeau Book Review: \booktitleLeonhardi euleri
opera omnia. Commentationes mechanicae
et astronomicae ad scientiam navalem
pertinentes. Volumen prius: Edited by
Walter Habicht. Series 2, Volume 20 of
the Collected Works of L. Euler. Basel
(Orell Füssli Turici). 1974. lx + 275 pp 221--221
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleDirichlet's
principle. A mathematical comedy of
errors and its influence on the
development of analysis: By A. F. Monna.
Utrecht (Oosthoek, Scheltema and
Holkema). 1975. vii + 138 pp . . . . . . 222--225
Alexander Volodarsky Book Review: \booktitleCensus of the
exact sciences in Sanskrit: By David
Pingree. Series A. Philadelphia
(American Philosophical Society). Vol.
1, 1970, 60 p. Vol. 2, 1971, 147 p. Vol.
3, 1976, 208 p . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Edward A. Maziarz Book Review: \booktitleArts and sciences
at Padua: the studium of Padua before
1350: By Nancy G. Sirasi. Toronto
(Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval
Studies). 1973. 199 p . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Judith R. Goodstein \booktitleRicci and Levi-Civita's tensor
analysis paper: Lie Groups: History,
Frontiers, and Applications, Volume 2.
Translated and edited by Robert Hermann.
Brookline, Massachusetts (Math. Sci.
Press). 1975. 261 p. paper . . . . . . . 228--228
Thomas Hawkins \booktitleSophus Lie's 1884 differential
invariant paper: By Robert Hermann with
translations by Michael Ackerman.
Brookline, Mass. (Math. Sci. Press).
1976. 281 pp. US \$20} . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Thomas Hawkins Book Review: \booktitleSophus Lie's 1880
transformation group paper: By Robert
Hermann with translations by Michael
Ackerman. Brookline, Mass. (Math. Sci.
Press). 1975. 587 pp. US \$28} . . . . . 229--230
James H. Cassedy Book Review: \booktitleOn the history of
statistics and probability: Edited by D.
B. Owen. Proceedings of a Symposium on
the American Mathematical Heritage to
Celebrate the Bicentennial of the United
States of America, held at Southern
Methodist University, 27--29 May 1974.
New York and Basel (Marcel Dekker).
1976. 466 p. Illustrations.
Bibliographies. Index . . . . . . . . . 231--232
Pearce Williams Book Review: \booktitleGeorge Green,
Miller, Snienton: By R. M. Bowley, L. J.
Challis, F. W. Sheard, F. M. Wilkins
Jones, and David Phillips. Nottingham
(Museum and Art Gallery, The Castle).
1976. 96 p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--232
Garrett Birkhoff Book Review: \booktitleAdventures of a
mathematician: By S. M. Ulam. New York
(Scribners). 1976. 317 pp. \$17.50} . . 233--236
H. J. M. Bos Book Review: \booktitleDie Principien
der höheren Analysis in ihrer
Entwickelung von Leibniz bis auf
Lagrange als ein historisch-kritischer
Beitrag zur Geschichte der Mathematik
Dargestellt: By Hermann Weissenborn.
Halle (H. W. Schmidt). 1856.
photomechanic reprint (Leipzig,
Zentralantiquariat der Deutschen
Demokratischen Republik). 1972 . . . . . 236--239
Kenneth O. May Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--252
Brendan S. Gillon Introduction, translation, and
discussion of Chao Chün--Ch'ing's
``\booktitleNotes to the diagrams of
short legs and long legs and of squares
and circles'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--293
Anonymous Gauss bicentennial in Göttingen . . . . . 294--294
J. M. Dubbey Babbage, Peacock and modern algebra . . 295--302
Hubert C. Kennedy Karl Marx and the foundations of
differential calculus . . . . . . . . . 303--318
Albert C. Leighton Some examples of historical
cryptanalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--337
Anonymous Gauss exhibit in the FRG . . . . . . . . 337--338
Victor S. Albis-González Latin--American translations of
Legendre's ``\booktitleÉléments de
Géométrie'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--340
Anonymous Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--343
J. Babini La labor del comité international pour la
métrologie historique . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
K.-R Biermann and
Horst Sachs Gauss bicentennial activities in the GDR 346--347
Anonymous Aryabhata celebrations at Calcutta . . . 347--350
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--350
Anonymous Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351--352
Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--352
Charles V. Jones Annual meeting of the Canadian Society
for the History and Philosophy of
Mathematics/Société Canadienne d'Histoire
et de Philosophie des Mathématiques . . . 353--354
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe new elements
of mathematics: Volume 1: Arithmetic.
Charles S. Peirce. Edited by Carolyn
Eisele. The Hague (Mouton
Publishers)/Atlantic Highlands, N.J.
(Humanities Press). 1976. xl + 250 p.
\$29.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--360
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDiocles On
Burning Mirrors. The Arabic translation
of the lost Greek original: Edited, with
English translation and commentary by G.
J. Toomer. Berlin, Heidelberg, and New
York (Springer-Verlag). 1976. ix + 249
p. 24 plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--363
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleA source book in
classical analysis: Edited by Garrett
Birkhoff with the assistance of Uta
Merzbach. Cambridge, Mass. (Harvard
University Press). 1973 . . . . . . . . 364--365
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe method of
analysis. Its geometrical origin and its
general significance: By Hintikka J. &
Remes U. Dordrecht-Holland/Boston (D.
Reidel Publishing Co.). Boston Studies
in the Philosophy of Science vol.
XXV/Synthese Library vol. LXXV. 1974.
144 p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--369
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Kenneth O. May . . 371--378
H. S. M. Coxeter Gauss as a geometer . . . . . . . . . . 379--396
Paul J. Campbell Gauss and the Eight Queens Problem: a
study in miniature of the propagation of
historical error . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--404
Philip P. Chandler The Principia 's theory of the motion of
the lunar apse . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--410
A. T. Grigoryan and
A. P. Yushkevich Boris A. Rosenfeld on the 60th
anniversary of his birth . . . . . . . . 411--414
M. V. Wilkes Babbage as a computer pioneer . . . . . 415--440
Charles V. Jones A missing table in C. S. Peirce's
\booktitleNew Elements of Mathematics,
vol. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--442
Warren Weaver Early support for mathematics from
Rockefeller agencies . . . . . . . . . . 443--444
M. Bruckheimer and
Y. Salomon Some comments on R. J. Gillings'
analysis of the $ 2 n $ table in the
Rhind Papyrus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--452
Anonymous History of mathematics at the Wheaton
College Conference ``A Christian
Perspective on the Foundations of
Mathematics'' 28--30 April 1977 . . . . 452--452
Anonymous Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
Anonymous Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454--454
Anonymous Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--455
Anonymous Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456--457
Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--457
Anonymous Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--458
Kenneth O. May Report of the Commission on the History
of Mathematics to the Division of
History of the International Union of
the History and Philosophy of Science
August 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--460
Elizabeth Hodes Book Review: \booktitleThinkers and
tinkers: Early American men of science:
By Silvio A. Bedini. New York (Charles
Scribner's Sons). 1975. xix + 520 pp.
102 plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--463
Judith V. Grabiner Book Review: \booktitleMen and
institutions in American mathematics:
Edited by J. Dalton Tarwater, John T.
White, and John D. Miller. Texas Tech
University (Graduate Studies, No. 13).
1976. \$5.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--465
Jed Z. Buchwald Book Review: \booktitleThe kind of
motion we call heat, a history of the
kinetic theory of gases in the
Nineteenth Century: By Stephen G. Brush.
Vol. I: Physics and the Atomists. Vol.
II: Statistical Physics and Irreversible
Processes. Amsterdam-New York-Oxford
(North Holland). 1976. xxix + 769 pp.
\$83.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--467
Gregory H. Moore Book Review: \booktitleFrom Frege to
Gödel: a source book in mathematical
logic, 1879--1931: Edited by Jean van
Heijenoort. Cambridge (Harvard
University Press). 1971. xi + 660 pp.
Second corrected printing . . . . . . . 468--471
Kurt Mòller Pedersen Book Review: \booktitleThomas Hobbes: De
homine. Traité de l'homme: Traduction et
commentaire par Paul-Marie Maurin.
Preface par Vasco Ronchi. Paris (Albert
Blanchard). 1974. 204 pp. 30 Frs . . . . 471--472
Phillip S. Jones Book Review: \booktitleThe Renaissance
rediscovery of linear perspective: By
Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr. New York (Basic
Books, Inc.). 1975. xvii + 206 pp.
\$16.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--474
Harold M. Edwards Book Review: \booktitleErnst Eduard
Kummer. Collected papers: Volume I.
Contributions to Number Theory. Edited
by André Weil. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York
(Springer-Verlag). 1975. 957 p . . . . . 475--478
Harold M. Edwards Book Review: \booktitleCourant in
Göttingen and New York: By Constance
Reid. New York, Heidelberg, Berlin
(Springer-Verlag). 1976. 314 pp . . . . 479--480
Frank Harary Book Review: \booktitleGraph theory
1736--1936: By N. L. Biggs, E. K. Lloyd,
and R. J. Wilson. Oxford (Clarendon
Press). 1976. 239 pp. \$27.85} . . . . . 480--481
Kenneth O. May Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--498
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499--499
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume IV . . 500--504
Joseph W. Dauben and
Laura Roebuck Kenneth O. May, 1915--1977 . . . . . . . 1--2
Stillman Drake A memorial tribute to Kenneth O. May . . 3--12
J. J. Gray Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician
and scientist, 1728--1777 . . . . . . . 13--41
Wilbur R. Knorr Archimedes and the spirals: the
heuristic background . . . . . . . . . . 43--75
Anonymous Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Paul J. Campbell The origin of ``Zorn's Lemma'' . . . . . 77--89
Anonymous The 250th anniversary of the death of
Newton in Belgrade . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Gauss bicentennial celebrations at
Belgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Spanish society for the history of
sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Carolyn Eisele A comment on C. V. Jones' review of the
\booktitleNew Elements . . . . . . . . . 91--92
S. Glushkov An acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Hubert Kennedy Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Institute for the History of Arabic
Science, University of Aleppo, Aleppo,
Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous New Spanish journal of history of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous Seki Takakazu zenshu: \booktitleTakakazu
Seki's collected works: Edited and
explained by A. Hirayama, K. Shimodaira,
and H. Hirose. Osaka (Osaka Kyoiku
Tosho). 1974. xviii + 852 pp . . . . . . 96--98
Anonymous Nihonjin no sugaku. (Japanese) [Japanese
School of Residence] . . . . . . . . . . 99--99
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleEvolution of
mathematical concepts: an elementary
study: By Raymond L. Wilder. Paperback
reprinting of the 1968 original. London
(Transworld). 1974. 216 pp . . . . . . . 99--105
Anonymous Grecheskaya logistika . . . . . . . . . 105--107
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleVorlesungen über
neuere geometrie: By M. Pasch, with an
appendix by M. Dehn. Berlin (Grundlehren
der math. Wissenschaften,
Springer-Verlag). 1926. Reprint 1976
(Springer-Verlag). viii + 275 pp . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGalileo, two new
sciences: By Stillman Drake. Including
Centers of Gravity and Force of
Percussion. A new translation with
introduction and notes. Madison,
Wisconsin (The University of Wisconsin
Press). 1974. xxvii + 323 pp . . . . . . 107--108
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHistoire comparée
des numérations écrites: By Genevi\`eve
Guitel. Paris (Flammarion). 1975. 857
pp. 48 drawings. 50 plates. 73 tables 108--113
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--126
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
I. Grattan-Guinness How Bertrand Russell discovered his
paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--137
Anonymous History at the meetings of the American
Mathematical Society and Mathematical
Association of America, Atlanta, January
1978 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--166
Eric G. Forbes The astronomical work of Carl Friedrich
Gauss (1777--1855) . . . . . . . . . . . 167--181
D. A. Sprott Gauss's contributions to statistics . . 183--203
Anonymous Publication of new journal beginning in
1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Sabetai Unguru A thirteenth century `proof' of the
parallel postulate . . . . . . . . . . . 205--210
Tony Crilly Cayley's anticipation of a generalised
Cayley--Hamilton theorem . . . . . . . . 211--219
Anonymous Canadian Society for the History and
Philosophy of Mathematics/Société
canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie
des mathématiques . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--220
R. J. Gillings Response to ``Some comments on R. J.
Gillings' analysis of the $ 2 / n $
table in the Rhind Papyrus'' . . . . . . 221--226
Anonymous Addendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--227
Anonymous History of Combinatorics . . . . . . . . 227--227
Donald MacKenzie Workshop on the Sociology of
Mathematical Knowledge and the Social
history of Mathematics . . . . . . . . . 228--232
Anonymous ``Mathematics and the real world'' a
Workshop of the Danish Mathematical
Society at Roskilde University Center,
Denmark 8--9 August 1978 . . . . . . . . 232--232
Anonymous Monographs in undergraduate mathematics 233--233
Anonymous Five new series in the History of
Arabic--Islamic science . . . . . . . . 234--234
Margaret E. Baron Book Review: \booktitleGottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz. Mathematischer
naturwissenschaftlicher und technischer
Briefwechsel. Erster Band: 1672--1676:
Edited by J. E. Hofmann and the
Leibniz-Archiv der Niedersächsichen
Landesbibliothek, Hannover. Berlin,
G.D.R. (Akademie-Verlag). 1976. lxxv +
871 pp. (Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe,
herausgegeben von der Akademie der
Wissenschaften der DDR, Dritte Reihe,
Erster Band) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--237
Hubert C. Kennedy Book Review: \booktitleLa matematica
come sistema ipotetico-deduttivo,
profilo storico: by Silvio Maracchia.
Firenze (Felice Le Monnier). 1975. 219
pp. L. 6000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--239
K. E. Pledger Book Review: \booktitleLes syst\`emes
d'équations polynômes dans le Siyuan
Yujian (1303): by Jock Hoe. Paris,
Coll\`ege de France. Mémoires de
l'Institut des hautes études chinoises
vol. VI. 1977. 338 pp. Distributed by
presses universitaires de France . . . . 239--241
Esther R. Phillips and
George W. Phillips Book Review: \booktitleMemoirs
[Vospominaniya]: By P. Ya. Kochina.
Moscow (Science-Nauka). 1974. 299 pp.
One plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--245
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--251
Ang Tian-Se Chinese interest in right-angled
triangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--266
E. A. Fellmann Über eine Bemerkung von G. W. Leibniz zu
einem Theorem in Newtons
\booktitlePrincipia mathematica.
(German) [On a remark of G. W. Leibniz
on a theorem in Newton's
\booktitlePrincipia mathematica] . . . . 267--273
Anonymous Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre,
Oxford, England . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--274
Esther R. Phillips Nicolai Nicolaevich Luzin and the Moscow
school of the theory of functions . . . 275--305
Anonymous Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--306
Ascher Wagner A bibliography of William Burnside
(1852--1927) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--312
Gordon M. Fisher Cauchy and the infinitely small . . . . 313--331
E. J. Barbeau Errata and additions . . . . . . . . . . 332--332
M. Folkerts Der Nachlass Axel Anthon Björnbos.
(German) [The Legacy of Axel Anthon
Björnbos] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--339
Albert C. Lewis Establishment of ``The archives of
American mathematics'' . . . . . . . . . 340--341
Ernest Stipani\'c History and philosophy of mathematics as
a subject of the regular curriculum at
the Scientific--Mathematical University
of Belgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--345
R. Oberlé Le Colloque International Jean Henri
Lambert 26--30 Septembre 1977 . . . . . 346--348
K.-R Biermann Colloque International J. H. Lambert la
vie, l'oeuvre et l'influence de
Jean-Henri Lambert 26--30 Septembre 1977 348--351
D. J. Struik Book Review: \booktitleBriefwechsel
zwischen Alexander von Humboldt und Carl
Friedrich Gauss: Zum 200. Geburtstag von
C. F. Gauss im Auftrage des
Gauss-Komitees bei der Akademie der
Wissenschaften der DDR, neu
herausgegeben durch Kurt-R. Biermann.
Berlin (Akademie-Verlag). 1977. 202 p.
36 mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--353
G. J. Tee Book Review: \booktitleThe exhaustive
treatise on shadows: By Abu al-Rayh\=an
Muhammad b. Ahmad al-B\=\ir\=un\=\i.
Translation and Commentary by E. S.
Kennedy. Aleppo (Institute for the
History of Arabic Science, University of
Aleppo). 1976. Volume 1, Translation
(xviii + 281 pp.); Volume 2, Commentary
(xviii + 223 pp.) . . . . . . . . . . . 354--357
Philip Kitcher Book Review: \booktitleGrössenlehre II.
Reine zahlenlehre: Bernard Bolzano:
Edited by Jan Berg. Gesamtausgabe.
Series II, A8. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
(Friedrich Fromm Verlag). 1976 . . . . . 358--363
Micheal S. Mahoney Book Review: \booktitleDoctrine de
l'angle solide: By Florimond de Beaune
(1601--1652). Edited by Pierre Costabel,
transcribed from the original manuscript
by Bernard Barbiche, typed by Arlettte
Chancrin. Paris (Librairie Philosophique
J. Vrin). (Collections des travaux de
l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des
Sciences, No. 19). 1975. 157 pp . . . . 363--366
Anthony Hyman Book Review: \booktitleAda, Countess of
Lovelace: Byron's legitimate daughter:
By Doris Langley Moore. New York (Harper
& Row). 1977. \$25.00} . . . . . . . . . 366--367
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--377
Judith V. Grabiner The origins of Cauchy's theory of the
derivative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--409
Umberto Bottazzini Ricerche di P. Tardy sui differenziali
di indice qualunque, 1844--1868.
(Italian) [Research of P. Tardy on
differentials of arbitary index,
1844--1868] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--418
Harold M. Edwards On the Kronecker Nachlass [legacy] . . . 419--426
Alkiviadis G. Akritas and
Stylianos D. Danielopoulos On the forgotten theorem of Mr. Vincent 427--435
Charles H. Stolze A history of the divergence theorem . . 437--442
Jean-Claude Pont Johann-Heinrich Rehbein: Une voie
philosophique vers la topologie . . . . 443--454
Peeter Muü\"rsepp Gauss and Tartu University . . . . . . . 455--459
J. M. Mack Report on a Conference for Secondary
Teachers on the History of Mathematics 461--463
James V. Peters A history of mathematics course for
undergraduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--464
R. C. Gupta Indian Society for the History of
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--466
J. J. Gray The British Society for the History of
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--468
Anonymous Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--470
Anonymous Boncompagni Archive at Cornell
University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--472
Anonymous Institute for the History of Arabic
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472--472
Anonymous AFIPS to publish \booktitleAnnals of the
History of Computing . . . . . . . . . . 472--473
J. F. Peters Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . . . . . . . 474--474
J. F. Peters With informal thoughts regarding the use
and improvement of the German language 474--478
George Saliba Book Review: \booktitleThe Muslim
contribution to mathematics, Ali
Abdullah Al-Daffa'. Croom Helm and
Humanities Press, London and New Jersey
(1977), 121 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478--479
Garrett Birkhoff Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Numerical Analysis from the 16th Through
the 19th Century, by Herman H. Goldstine 479--482
Jeremy Gray Gauss und die nicht-euklidische
Geometrie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482--483
Eberhard Knobloch Biographien bedeutender Mathematiker,
eine Sammlung von Biographien. (German)
[Biographies of important mathematician,
a collection of biographies] . . . . . . 483--485
Jerzy Neyman About the theory of probability and
mathematical statistics . . . . . . . . 485--486
Tord Hall Book Review: \booktitleMathematisches
Tagebuch, 1796--1814 von C. F. Gauss . . 486--487
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488--494
Anonymous Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--495
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496--500
Christoph J. Scriba A message to readers of
\booktitleHistoria Mathematica from the
Chairman of the International Commission
on the History of Mathematics . . . . . 1--2
Joseph W. Dauben Note from the editor . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
G. D. Garland The contributions of Carl Friedrich
Gauss to geomagnetism . . . . . . . . . 5--29
James W. Tankard, Jr. The H. G. Wells quote on statistics: a
question of accuracy . . . . . . . . . . 30--33
Gottfried Gabriel Über einen Gedankenstrich bei Frege, eine
Nachlese zur Edition seines
wissenschaftlichen Nachlasses. (German)
[A dash at Frege, a pickings for the
edition of his scientific legacy] . . . 34--35
Teri Perl The \booktitleLadies Diary or
\booktitleWoman's Almanack, 1704--1841 36--53
Barbara Moss Beppo Levi and the axiom of choice . . . 54--56
R. L. Wilder Some comments on M. J. Crowe's review of
evolution of mathematical concepts . . . 57--62
Anonymous Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre,
Oxford, England . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--62
K. W. Smillie An historical approach to computing
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--66
Anonymous Conference of the Leningrad Section of
the Soviet Association of the History
and Philosophy of Science and Technology 67--70
Anonymous Peirce at Vienna in 1979 . . . . . . . . 70--71
Anonymous Seminar on Component of History of
Mathematics in Mathematics Curriculum 71--71
Anonymous Mathematics in context --- a workshop 71--72
Anonymous Annals of the history of computing . . . 72--73
Anonymous World directory of the history of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Anonymous Dissertation completed: Jaina astronomy 73--74
Anonymous Dissertation completed: the history of
linear optimalization . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Dissertation in progress: Hensel's
$p$-adic numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Project on the history of mathematics in
Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--75
N. M. Swerdlow Book Review: \booktitleA history of
ancient mathematical astronomy: Studies
in the History of Mathematics and
Physical Sciences, Vol. 1, in 3 parts.
By O. Neugebauer. Berlin/Heidelberg/New
York (Springer-Verlag). 1975. 1456 + xxi
pp. (incl. figs., plates). \$124.70} . . 76--85
Esther R. Phillips Razvitie ponyattiya integrala. (Russian)
[The development of the concept of
integral] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--91
Imre Toth Book Review: \booktitleLobatchevski: By
V. F. Kagan. Moscow (Edition Mir). 1974 91--97
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--105
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 106--107
N. L. Biggs The roots of combinatorics . . . . . . . 109--136
Esther R. Phillips Karl M. Peterson: the earliest
derivation of the Mainardi--Codazzi
equations and the Fundamental Theorem of
Surface Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--163
Donald Blackmore Wagner An early Chinese derivation of the
volume of a pyramid: Liu Hui, third
century A.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--188
Claudia Zaslavsky Teacher education: Mathematics in other
cultures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--194
Anonymous Cube puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--196
Hubert Kennedy Towards a biography of James Mills
Peirce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--201
Anonymous Dissertation completed: From ENIAC to
UNIVAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201
Anonymous Publications of James Mills Peirce . . . 201--201
Anonymous Dissertation in progress: Richard
Dedekind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Anonymous New Journal in the history of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--203
Anonymous Oral history program in mathematics . . 203--204
Anonymous International Symposium on the Life and
Work of Christiaan Huygens 1629--1695:
Amsterdam 22--25 August 1979 . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous Colloquium in honor of Professor Dr.
Kurt Vogel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous International Study Group on the
relation between the history and
pedagogy of mathematics . . . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous British Association for the History of
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--206
Anonymous History of Mathematics at Macquarie
University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Anonymous Archive for linear algebra and its
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--207
Anonymous Archive of the School Mathematics Study
Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--208
Anonymous Boncompagni papers in the Library of
Trinity College, Dublin . . . . . . . . 209--212
Albert C. Leighton Book Review: \booktitleAn annotated
bibliography of cryptography: By David
Shulman. Garland Reference Library of
the Humanities, Vol. 37 New York/London
(Garland Publishing Inc.). 1976. xvi +
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F. Smithies Book Review: \booktitleOcherki istorii
teorii funktsii deistvitel'nogo
peremennogo: (Essays on the history of
the theory of functions of a real
variable). By F. A. Medvedev. Moscow
(Izdatel'stvo Nauka). 1975. 248 pp . . . 218--220
Lam Lay-Yong Book Review: \booktitleWas Pythagoras
Chinese? An examination of right
triangle theory in ancient China: by
Frank J. Swetz and T. I. Kao.
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania State
University Press). 1977. 75pp. \$3.95} 221--228
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 231--231
Christoph J. Scriba Heinrich Hermelink in memoriam . . . . . 233--235
Jeremy Gray Non-Euclidean geometry --- a
re-interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . 236--258
L. J. Daston D'Alembert's critique of probability
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--279
Hermann Engels Zur Geschichte der
Richardson-Extrapolation. (German) [On
the history of Richardson extrapolation] 280--293
I. Grattan-Guinness In memoriam Kurt Gödel: His 1931
correspondence with Zermelo on his
incompletability theorem . . . . . . . . 294--304
Ignacio Angelelli ``Class as one'' and ``class as many''
before modern set theory . . . . . . . . 305--309
Francine Abeles Ranking by inversion: a note on C. L.
Dodgson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--317
Bruce Williamson History of mathematics --- a course
outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--320
R. C. Gupta Symposium on History and Philosophy of
Mathematical Sciences . . . . . . . . . 320--322
Anonymous International Christoffel symposium . . 322--322
Anonymous Bibliography of Philip Jourdain's works 322--323
Gerald W. Kimble From pebbles to position . . . . . . . . 323--325
Anonymous History and philosophy of logic . . . . 325--326
Anonymous Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre 326--327
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleRichard Dedekind
et les fondements des mathe'matiques: By
Pierre Dugac. Préface de Jean Dieudonné.
Paris (J. Vrin). 1976. 334. pp . . . . . 328--332
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGirolamo Cardano:
(1501--1576). By Markus Fierz.
Basel/Stuttgart (Birkhaüser). 1977. 140
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--334
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHistory of the
department of mathematics of the
University of Kansas, 1866--1970: By G.
Baley Price. Lawrence, Kansas (Kansas
University Endowment Association, The
University of Kansas). 1976. xii + 788
pp. (reproduced typescript) . . . . . . 334--336
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLes mathematiques
arabes (VIII$^e$--XV$^e$ si\`ecles): By
Adolf P. Youschkevitch. Translated by M.
Cazenave and K. Jaouiche, with preface
By R. Taton. Paris (Vrin). 1976 . . . . 337--337
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Albert C. Lewis . . 338--345
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 346--348
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 349--349
Timothy Lenoir Descartes and the geometrization of
thought: the methodological background
of Descartes' géométrie . . . . . . . . . 355--379
Cristian Calude and
Solomon Marcus and
Ionel Tevy The first example of a recursive
function which is not primitive
recursive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--384
Walter P. Van Stigt The rejected parts of Brouwer's
dissertation on the foundations of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--404
David A. King Supplementary notes on medieval Islamic
multiplication tables . . . . . . . . . 405--417
Roger Fischler A remark on Euclid II, 11 . . . . . . . 418--422
Hubert Kennedy James Mills Peirce and the cult of
quaternions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--429
William C. Waterhouse Gauss on infinity . . . . . . . . . . . 430--436
Warren W. Esty Ancient portraits of mathematicians . . 437--441
R. J. Gillings The recto of the Rhind Mathematical
Papyrus and the Egyptian mathematical
leather roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--447
Garry J. Tee H. G. Wells and statistics . . . . . . . 447--448
E. Keith Lloyd On the forgotten Mr. Vincent . . . . . . 448--450
M. A. Malik A history of mathematics course for
teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--451
Ubiratan D'Ambrosio History of Ibero--American mathematics 452--453
Anonymous Workshop on the Social History of
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--457
Anonymous Symposium on the History of Mathematical
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--458
Anonymous New mathematics journal to accept
historical articles . . . . . . . . . . 458--459
Anonymous AFIPS and CBI: a computer history
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--459
Boris M. Schein History of non-Euclidean geometry. The
development of the concept of geometric
space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--464
Ignacio Angelelli Book Review: \booktitleDear
Russell--Dear Jourdain. A commentary on
Russell's logic, based on his
correspondence with Philip Jourdian: By
I. Grattan-Guinness. London (Duckworth).
1977. 234 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464--466
Joseph Needham Book Review: \booktitleA critical study
of the Yang Hui Suan Fa: a
thirteenth-century Chinese mathematical
treatise: By Lam Lay Yong (L. Y. Lam).
Singapore (University Press). 1977. xx +
360 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--468
Samuel Kotz Book Review: \booktitleFelix Klein and
Sophus Lie: By I. M. Yaglom. (In
Russian.) Mathematics and Cybernetics,
No. 11. Moscow (Znanie). 1977 . . . . . 468--469
Esther R. Phillips Book Review: \booktitleNikolai Ivanovich
Fuss: 1755--1826: By V. I. Lysenko. (In
Russian.) Moscow (Nauka). 1975. 119 pp 469--472
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--479
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 484--484
Anonymous Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--485
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--486
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 6 . . 487--490
Anonymous Professor Dr. Rer. Nat. Habil.
Kurt-Reinhard Biermann: On The Occasion
of his 60th Birthday . . . . . . . . . . ??
S. B. Engelsman Lagrange's early contributions to the
theory of first-order partial
differential equations . . . . . . . . . 7--23
Umberto Bottazzini Algebraische Untersuchungen in Italien,
1850--1863 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--37
Javad Hamadanizadeh The trigonometric tables of al-Kashi in
his \booktitleZij-i Khaqani . . . . . . 38--45
S. L. Segal Helmut Hasse in 1934 . . . . . . . . . . 46--56
Ruth Wallis and
Peter Wallis Female Philomaths . . . . . . . . . . . 57--64
Jeremy Gray The history of the concept of a
finite-dimensional vector space . . . . 65--70
S. S. Demidov and
A. I. Volodarsky Second Summer Conference on the History
of Mathematics in the Soviet Union . . . 71--75
Herbert Mehrtens Workshop on the Social History of
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--79
Anonymous A Workshop on the Growth of Quantum
Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Anonymous International Study Group on the
Relations between the History and the
Pedagogy of Mathematics: Activities at
I.C.M.E. IV, August 10--16, 1980 . . . . 80--81
Sheldon M. Eisenberg Another approach to a history of
mathematics course for undergraduates 82--83
Umberto Bottazzini Tardy's letters and library in Genoa . . 84--85
Anonymous The Kenneth O. May Fellowship in the
History of Mathematics, University of
Toronto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Ivor Bulmer-Thomas: Honorary doctor of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--88
Anonymous New journal for the history of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Anonymous Edition of Charpit's Book Review:
\booktitleMémoire of 1784 . . . . . . . . 89--89
Anonymous Materia mathematica . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
Anonymous Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
Anonymous Dissertation on partial differentiation
from Leibniz to Euler . . . . . . . . . 90--90
Anonymous Research project ``On the relationship
between the process of science and the
process of education --- described by
the example of the development of
mathematics in the 19th century'' . . . 90--91
Anonymous Thesis: a treatise devoted to the theory
of conic sections . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleThe paradoxes of
the theory of sets and dialectic: By I.
N. Burova. Moscow (Nauka). 1976. 176pp.
62 Kopecks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
G. Baley Price Book Review: \booktitleA history of the
mathematics departments of the
University of Colorado: By Burton W.
Jones and Wolfgang Thron. Copyright 1979
by the Mathematics Department,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Colorado. viii + 102 pages. Paperbound 93--95
Harols M. Edwards Book Review: \booktitleVariationen über
ein zahlentheoretisches Thema von C. F.
Gauss: By H. Pieper. Basel and Stuttgart
(Birkhäuser). 1978 . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
David Pingree Book Review: \booktitleThe arithmetic of
al-Uqlidisi: By A. S. Saidan.
Dordrecht/Boston (Reidel). 1978. xvii +
492 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Philip C. Enros Book Review: \booktitleThe mathematical
work of Charles Babbage: By John Michael
Dubbey. New York/London (Cambridge
University Press). 1978. viii + 235 pp.
\$26.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--100
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--107
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 108--110
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 111--111
Anonymous Viggo Brun in memoriam (1885--1978) . . ??
Hans Freudenthal Huygens' foundations of probability . . 113--117
Donald W. Robinson Gauss and generalized inverses . . . . . 118--125
R. C. Gupta Bibhutibhusan datta (1888--1958),
historian of Indian mathematics . . . . 126--133
Bernard R. Goldstein Solar and lunar velocities in the
Alfonsine Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--140
Roy N. Lokken Discussions on Newton's infinitesimals
in Eighteenth-Century Anglo--America . . 141--155
S. B. Russ A translation of Bolzano's paper on the
Intermediate Value Theorem . . . . . . . 156--185
Beatrice Lumpkin The Egyptians and Pythagorean triples 186--187
Teri Hoch Perl Women and mathematics in the late 18th
century: a query . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--189
Kurt-R. Biermann Apropos Briefwechsel A. v. Humboldts mit
C. F. Gauss. (German) [On correspondence
of A. v. Humboldt with C. F. Gauss] . . 189--190
Anonymous History of Logic Conference . . . . . . 191--192
Anonymous XVIth International Congress of the
History of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 192--193
Anonymous Fourth International Congress on
Mathematical Education . . . . . . . . . 193--193
Anonymous British Society for the History of
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
Anonymous Dissertations on Arabic versions of
Euclid's \booktitleElements . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Dissertation on a treatise on the theory
of conic sections . . . . . . . . . . . 195--196
Anonymous Dissertation on contributions of Gyula 196--196
Anonymous Study of American women in mathematics 196--196
Anonymous In memoriam: [Helmut Haase (1898--1979)] 197--197
Anonymous A new history of mathematics journal . . 197--197
Anonymous Société Française d'Histoire des Sciences
et des Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous World directory of the history of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Nicholas H. Steneck Book Review: \booktitleWitelonis
perspectivae liber primus: (Book I of
Witelo's Perspectiva). An English
Translation with Introduction and
Commentary and Latin Edition of the
Mathematical Book of Witelo's
Perspectiva. By Sabetai Unguru. Wroclaw
(The Polish Academy of Sciences). 1977.
Studia Copernicana, Vol. 15. 330 pp., 12
plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Ian Mueller Book Review: \booktitleVon Eudoxos zu
Aristoteles. Das Fortwirken der
eudoxischen Proportionentheorie in der
aristotelischen Lehre vom Kontinuum:
(Studien zur Antiken Philosophie, Bd.
8). By Hans-Joachim Waschkies. Verlag B.
R. Grüner, 1977. 453 pp. Hfl. 90 . . . . 200--210
James H. Cassedy Book Review: \booktitleThe history of
statistics in the 17th and 18th
centuries against the changing
background of intellectual, scientific
and religious thought: Lectures by Karl
Pearson given at University College,
London, during the academic sessions
1921--1933. Edited by E. S. Pearson. New
York, Macmillan, 1978. xix, 744 pp . . . 210--212
Eberhard Knobloch Book Review: Ian Hacking: \booktitlethe
emergence of probability: Cambridge.
1975. 209 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--216
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--224
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 225--227
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 228--228
Roger H. Stuewer Erwin N. Hiebert . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--233
Lorraine J. Daston Probabilistic expectation and
rationality in classical probability
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--260
Joseph W. Dauben Mathematicians and World War I: the
international diplomacy of G. H. Hardy
and Gösta Mittag-Leffler as reflected in
their personal correspondence . . . . . 261--288
Thomas Hawkins Non--Euclidean geometry and
Weierstrassian mathematics: the
background to Killing's work on Lie
algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--342
Joan L. Richards The art and the science of British
algebra: a study in the perception of
mathematical truth . . . . . . . . . . . 343--365
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 366--366
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 367--367
Frank Williamson, Jr. Richard Courant and the finite element
method: a further look . . . . . . . . . 369--378
G. C. Smith Thomas Bayes and fluxions . . . . . . . 379--388
Harvey W. Becher Woodhouse, Babbage, Peacock, and Modern
Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--400
Mohammad Yadegari The binomial theorem: a widespread
concept in medieval Islamic mathematics 401--406
Lam Lay-Yong The Chinese connection between the
Pascal triangle and the solution of
numerical equations of any degree . . . 407--424
Jean-Paul Pier Historique de la notion de compacité . . 425--443
Jeremy Gray A note on Karl M. Peterson . . . . . . . 444--444
Anonymous An unpublished manuscript of Hans
Rademacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--446
Anonymous Cahiers du séminaire d'histoire des
mathématiques de Paris . . . . . . . . . 447--447
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleG. W. Leibniz,
Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe . . . . . 448--448
Warren Van Egmond Book Review: \booktitlePiero dell
Francesca's mathematical treatises: the
``trattato d'abaco'' and ``libellus de
quinque corporibus regularibus'': By
Margaret Daly Davis. Ravenna (Longo
Editore). 1977 xxii + 135 pp., 36
plates. Lit 8000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--451
Louis L. Bucciarelli Book Review: \booktitleWomen and
mathematics, science and engineering. A
partially annotated bibliography with
emphasis on mathematics and with
references on related topics: By Else
Hòyrop. Roskilde University Library,
Denmark. 1978 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--451
B. L. van der Waerden Book Review: \booktitleVom logos zur
analogie. Die Geschichte eines
mathematischen Terminus: Von Thekal
Horovitz. Zürich (Hans Rohr). 1978 . . . 452--452
David Shulman Book Review: \booktitleUnited States
diplomatic codes and ciphers 1775--1938:
By Ralph E. Weber. Chicago. xviii + 633
pp. Illus. \$49.95} . . . . . . . . . . 452--454
Garrett Birkhoff Book Review: \booktitleDie entstehung
der verbandsteorie: By Herbert Mehrtens.
Hildesheim (Gerstenberg Verlag). 1979.
ix + 363 pp. 42 DM . . . . . . . . . . . 454--457
G. J. Toomer Book Review: \booktitleThe translation
of the \booktitleElements of Euclid from
the Arabic into Latin by Hermann of
Carinthia: Books VII--XII. Edited by H.
L. L. Busard. (Mathematical Centre
Tracts 84). Amsterdam (Mathematische
Centrum). 1977. 198 pp. . . . . . . . . 457--458
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459--467
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--468
Anonymous Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--469
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 470--471
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 472--472
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
involume 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473--473
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 7 . . 474--477
Don Engelberg and
Michael Gertner A marginal note of Mersenne concerning
the ``Galileian spiral'' . . . . . . . . 1--14
B. Rang and
W. Thomas Zermelo's discovery of the ``Russell
Paradox'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--22
Helena M. Pycior George Peacock and the British origins
of symbolical algebra . . . . . . . . . 23--45
Grazyna Rosi\'nska Tables trigonométriques de Giovanni
Bianchini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--55
H. Howard Frisinger The solution of a famous
two-centuries-old problem: the Leonhard
Euler--Latin square conjecture . . . . . 56--60
Anonymous Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--66
S. B. Engelsman Tagung ``Geschichte des Mathemetik'' im
mathematischen Forschungsinstitut
Oberwolfach. (German) [Conference on
``History of Mathematics'' in the
Mathematical Research Institute in
Oberwolfach] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--79
Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDidaktik der
mathematik: Herausgegeben von Hans-Georg
Steiner. (Wege der Forschung, Band
CCCLXI.) Darmstadt (Wissenschaftliche
Buchgesellschaft). 1978. xlviii + 478
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--85
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe bicentennial
tribute to American mathematics,
1776--1976: Edited by Dalton Tarwater.
The Mathematical Association of America.
1977. viii + 225 pp . . . . . . . . . . 85--90
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleVito Vol'terra
(Vito Volterra): By E. M. Polishchuk.
Leningrad (Izdatel'stvo Nauka,
Leningradskoe Otdelenie). 1977. 116 pp 90--92
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
analysis: Edited by R. J. Stanton and R.
O. Wells, Jr. Houston, Texas (Rice
University), 1977. Rice University
Studies, Volume 64, Numbers 2 and 3. iii
+ 228 pp. No price stated . . . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Book Review: George E. Andrews:
\booktitlePartitions: Yesterday and
today: New Zealand Mathematical Society.
1979. 56 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--95
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleProceedings of
the First International Symposium for
the History of Arabic Science, April
5--12, 1976. Volume II: Papers in
European Languages: Edited by A. Y.
al-Hassan, G. Karmi, and N. Namnum.
Aleppo (Institute for the History of
Arabic Science); 1978. 365 pp . . . . . 95--97
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleChapters in the
recent history of mathematics: Special
issue of \booktitleNieuw Archief voor
Wiskunde on the occasion of the
bicentennial celebration of the
Wiskundig Genootschap, 1778--1978.
Amsterdam, Mathematisch Centrum, 1978,
vi + 230 pp. illus . . . . . . . . . . . 97--99
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleImre Lakatos,
proofs and refutations. The logic of
mathematical discovery: Edited by John
Worrall and Elie Zahar. Cambridge
University Press, New York and London.
1976. xii + 154 pp. + bibliography +
name and subject indexes. Cloth \$22.50;
paper, \$5.25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--104
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleStoria della
teoria delle equazioni algebrice: By
Raffaela Franci and Laura Toti
Rigetelli. U. Mussia, Milan, 1979. 159
pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleSocialist
mathematics education: Edited by Frank
J. Swetz. 1978. Burgundy Press,
Southampton, PA . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--106
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte Der
Elementarmathematik: Band 1: Arithmetik
und Algebra, 4th ed. By Johannes
Tropfke. Edited by Kurt Vogel, Karin
Reich, Helmuth Gericke. Berlin/New York;
Walter de Gruyter, 1979. xiv + 742 pp.
DM 184 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--109
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Albert C. Lewis . . 110--118
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--119
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 120--123
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 124--124
G. L. Cohen and
A. G. Shannon John Ward's method for the calculation
of pi [$ \pi $ ] . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--144
Steven L. Jordan American attempts to solve Newton's
pasturage problem . . . . . . . . . . . 145--160
Victor J. Katz The history of differential forms from
Clairaut to Poincaré . . . . . . . . . . 161--188
Anonymous The First Australian Conference on the
history of mathematics . . . . . . . . . 189--190
Charles Mollan Perspectives in the History and
Philosophy of Science . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Louis Charbonneau Congr\`es annuel, Canadian Society for
the History and Philosophy of
Mathematics/Société canadienne d'histoire
et de philosophie des mathematiques . . 191--192
Charles V. Jones Annual meeting of the History of Science
Society, 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194
Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Doctoral dissertation: Bertrand Russell
and the paradoxes of set theory . . . . 196--196
Anonymous Dissertation in progress: David Hilbert 196--196
Anonymous World War II history planned . . . . . . 197--197
Anonymous Centro studi per la matematica
medioevale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDa Cardano a
Galois: Momenti di storia dell'Algebra:
By Silvio Maracchia. Milano
(Feltrinelli), 1979. 240 pp. \pounds
6500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLa théorie générale
de l'équilibre et du mouvement des
systems: By Louis Poinsot. Edition
critique et commentarires par Patrice
Bailhache J. Vrin 1975 . . . . . . . . . 200--202
Anonymous Die Berliner und die Petersburger
Akademie der Wissenschaften im
Briefwechsel Leonhard Eulers, Teil III 202--205
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleWittgenstein's
lectures on the foundations of
mathematics: (Cambridge, 1939). From the
notes of R. G. Bosanquet, Norman
Malcolm, Rush Rhees, and Yorick
Smythies. Edited by Cora Diamond.
Ithaca, N.Y. (Cornell University Press).
1976. 300 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--207
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleFrantsuzskaya
shkola teorii funktsi\uì i mnozhestv, na
rubezhe XIX--XX VV: [The French School
of the Theory of Functions and Sets at
the Turn of the XIX--XX Centuries]. By
F. A. Medvedev. Moscow (Nauka). 1976.
231 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--211
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMatematika XIX
veka. Matematicheskaya logika. Algebra.
Teoriya chisel. Teoriya veroyatnostei:
Edited by A. N. Kolmogorov and A. P.
Yushkevich. Moscow (Nauka). 1978. 155
pp. 2 roubles, 40 kopecks . . . . . . . 212--213
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHistoire du
theoreme des accroissements finis: By
Pierre Dugac. Paris (Université Pierre et
Marie Curie). 1979. 60 pp., reproduced
typescript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--219
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLimite, point
d'accumulation, compact: By Pierre
Dugac. Paris (Université Pierre et Marie
Curie). 1980. 80 pp., reproduced
typescript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--219
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Albert C. Lewis . . 220--228
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 230--232
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 233--233
Anonymous A. I. Markushevich as a historian of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Paul L. Butzer An outline of the life and work of E. B.
Christoffel (1829--1900) . . . . . . . . 243--276
Jöran Friberg Methods and traditions of Babylonian
mathematics: Plimpton 322, Pythagorean
Triples, and the Babylonian Triangle
Parameter Equations . . . . . . . . . . 277--318
Gregory H. Moore and
Alejandro Garciadiego Burali-Forti's paradox: a reappraisal of
its origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--350
R. C. Gupta Fourth Annual Conference of the Indian
Society for History of Mathematics . . . 351--355
Steven Turner Epistemological and social problems of
the development of the sciences in the
early 19th century . . . . . . . . . . . 355--357
R. Tobies IV. Tagung der Fachsektion Geschichte,
Philosophie und Grundlagen der
Mathematik der Mathematischen
Gesellschaft der DDR. (German) [IVth
Meeting of the History Section,
Philosophy and the Mathematical
Foundations of Mathematics Society of
DDR] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--360
Anonymous History of mathematics as a resource for
mathematics teaching: a seminar . . . . 361--361
Anonymous World directory of historians of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--362
Anonymous A new journal in the history of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Edith Sylla Book Review: \booktitlePractical
geometry in the high middle ages:
\booktitleArtis culuslibet consummatio
and the pratike de geometrie: Edited
with translation and commentary by
Stephen K. Victor. Philadelphia (The
American Philosophical Society). 1979.
Memoirs, Vol. 134. xii + 638 pp.,
illustrated, indices of technical terms 364--367
Thomas Hawkins Book Review: \booktitleGeorg Cantor. His
mathematics and philosophy of the
infinite: By Joseph Warren Dauben.
Cambridge, Mass./London (Harvard
University Press). 1979. ix + 404 pp.
\$27.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--375
Erwin Heibert Book Review: \booktitleSadi Carnot et
l'essor de la thermodynamique: Table
Ronde du Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique. Paris, École Polytechnique,
11--13 juin 1974. Paris (Éditions du
Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique). 1976. 435 pp . . . . . . 375--377
John Dillon Book Review: \booktitleDie Pythagoreer:
Religiöse Bruderschaft und Schule der
Wissenschaft: By B. L. van der Waerden.
Zurich and Munich (Artemis-Verlag).
1979. 505 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--378
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--383
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 387--387
Anonymous Ettore Carruccio --- The man and the
scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Isabella G. Bashmakova Arithmetic of algebraic curves from
Diophantus to Poincaré . . . . . . . . . 393--416
Jan P. Hogendijk How trisections of the angle were
transmitted from Greek to Islamic
geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417--438
Edward R. Hogan Theodore Strong and ante-bellum American
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--455
Richard J. Gillings The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Role
--- Line 8. How did the scribe do it? 456--457
Christoph J. Scriba Wie kommt ``Napoleons Satz'' zu seinem
Namen?. (German) [How does ``Napoleon's
set'' get its name?] . . . . . . . . . . 458--459
S. B. Engelsman Tagung ``Geschichte des Mathemetik'' im
mathematischen Forschungsinstitut
Oberwolfach. (German) [Conference on
``History of Mathematics'' in the
Mathematical Research Institute in
Oberwolfach] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--472
Philip Kitcher Book Review: \booktitleSur les
fondements de l'analyse au XIX$^e$
si\`ecle: By Pierre Dugac. Université
Catholique de Louvain. 1980. 179 pp . . 473--476
Helena Pysior Book Review: \booktitleStudies in the
scientific and mathematical philosophy
of Charles S. Peirce: Essays by Carolyn
Eisele: Edited by R. M. Martin. Studies
in Philosophy, No. 29. The
Hague/Paris/New York (Mouton
Publishers), 1979. xii + 386 pp. 96 DM 477--481
Dirk J. Struik Elwin Bruno Christoffel: 10 November
1829, Monschau; 5 März 1900, Strassburg;
Professor den Mathematik in Zürich,
Berlin und Strassburg. Gedenkschrift zur
150. Wiederkehr des Geburtstages.
Heimatblätter des Kreises Aachen 34/35
Jahrgang. 1978-3/4, 1979--1. 20 pp . . . 481--482
Ivor Bulmer-Thomas Book Review: \booktitleGreek mathematics
and the architects to Justinian: by John
Warren. London (Coach Publishing, 102
St. Paul's Road, London Nl; Exclusive
distributor, ISBS Inc., P. O. Box 555,
Forest Grove, OR 97116, U.S.A.). 1976.
Paper cover. 14 pp. 11 plans and
illustrations. \pounds 1.00 . . . . . . 482--485
Otto Volk Book Review: \booktitleBriefwechsel
zwischen Alexander von Humboldt und
Heinrich Christian Schumacher: Von Kurt
R. Biermann. Zum 200. Geburtstag von H.
Ch. Schumacher. Beiträge zur
Alexander-von-Humboldt-Forschung,
Schriftenreihe der
Alexander-von-Humboldt-Forschungsstelle
der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR,
Band 6, 192 S. mit 4 Tafeln. Berlin
(Akademie-Verlag). 1979 . . . . . . . . 485--487
Lorraine J. Daston Book Review: \booktitleI. J. Bienayme.
Statistical theory anticipated: By C. C.
Heyde and E. Seneta. Studies in the
History of Mathematics and the Physical
Sciences (3). Berlin (Springer-Verlag).
1977. ix + 172 pp. \$20.80} . . . . . . 487--488
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--493
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 496--496
Anonymous Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--497
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--498
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 8 . . 499--502
Anonymous Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova on the
occasion of her 60th birthday . . . . . ??
Esther Portnoy Riemann's contribution to differential
geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Jens Hòyrup Investigations of an early Sumerian
division problem, c. 2500 B.C. . . . . . 19--36
Louise S. Grinstein and
Paul J. Campbell Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler: Her life and
work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--53
Dirk J. Struik Minoan and Mycenaean numerals . . . . . 54--58
A. J. Crilly The British Society for the History of
Mathematics Pembroke College, Oxford,
September 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--60
Tito Tonietti A research proposal to study the
formalist and intuitionist
mathematicians of the Weimar Republic 61--64
I. Grattan-Guinness and
S. Engelsman The manuscripts of Paul Charpit . . . . 65--75
Raffaella Franci and
Laura Toti Rigatelli Unpublished writings of Giuseppe S.
Verzaglia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77
Rossella Vagaggini A manuscript by Teofilo Gallaccini in
the Siena municipal library . . . . . . 78--80
Gunhard A. E. Oravas Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte der
mechanischen Prinzipien und ihrer
wichtigsten Anwendungen: By István Szabó.
Basel and Stuttgart (Birkhäuser Verlag),
1977. xv + 491 pp . . . . . . . . . . . 81--94
Joan L. Richards Book Review: \booktitleIdeas of space:
By Jeremy Gray. New York/London (Oxford
University Press (Clarendon)) 1980. 216
pp. \$49.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--97
Bernard R. Goldstein Book Review: \booktitleLes instruments
de la théorie des planetes selon
Ptolemee: Équatoires et horologerie
planétaire du XIII$^e$ au XVI$^e$
si\`ecle: By Emmanuel Poulle. Geneva
(Librairie Droz). 1980. 2 vol. 1162 pp.
208 figures. 70 plates. 400 FF . . . . . 97--99
Dirk J. Struik Book Review: \booktitleTwo decades of
mathematics in the Netherlands
1920--1940. A retrospection on the
occasion of the bicentennial of the
Wiskundig Genootschap: Edited by E. M.
J. Bertin, H. J. M. Bos, and A. W.
Grootendorst. Part I, xxiv + 193 pp.;
Part II, pp. 195-379. Amsterdam
(Mathematical Centre). 1978 . . . . . . 99--100
Richard D. McKirahan, Jr. Book Review: \booktitleTheon of Smyrna.
Mathematics useful for understanding
Plato: Translated from the 1892
Greek/French edition of J. Dupuis by
Robert and Deborah Lawlor and edited and
annotated by Christos Toulis and others.
Secret Doctrine Reference Series. San
Diego, CA (Wizards Bookshelf). 1970.
ISBN 0-913510-24-6. xvi + 174 pp.
\$11.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--104
N. T. Gridgeman Book Review: \booktitleR. A. Fisher. The
life of a scientist: By Joan Fisher Box.
New York (John Wiley & Sons), 1978. xii +
512 pp. Illustrated . . . . . . . . . . 104--106
I. Bernard Cohen Book Review: \booktitleThe library of
Isaac Newton: By John Harrison.
Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne
(Cambridge University Press), 1978. xiv
+ 286 pp. \$62.50} . . . . . . . . . . . 106--109
Margaret E. Baron Book Review: \booktitleDie
mathematischen studien von G. W. Leibniz
zur kombinatorik: Studia leibnitiana
supplementa: Vol. XI. By Eberhard
Knobloch. Wiesbaden (Franz Steiner
Verlag). 1973. 277 + xvi pp., 2 plates 109--113
Margaret E. Baron Book Review: \booktitleDie
mathematischen studien von G. W. Leibniz
zur kombinatorik: Textband: Studia
leibnitiana supplementa: Vol. XVI. By
Eberhard Knobloch. Wiesbaden (Franz
Steiner Verlag). 1976. 339 + xii pp., 2
plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--113
J. F. Peters Book Review: \booktitleLeibniz \`a Paris
(1672--1676): Symposium of the G. W.
Leibniz-Society (Hannover) and of the
National Center for Scientific Research
(Paris), at Chantilly (France), 14--18
November 1976. Studia Leibnitiana
Supplementa, Vol. XVII. (t. 1): Les
sciences. Edited by A. Heinekamp and D.
Metter. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag,
1978. 242 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--123
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--127
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 128--131
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 132--132
Wilbur Knorr Techniques of fractions in ancient Egypt
and Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--171
G. C. Smith Matthew O'Brien's anticipation of
vectorial mathematics . . . . . . . . . 172--190
Karsten Johnsen Bemerkungen zu einer Tagebuchnotiz von
Carl Friedrich Gauss. (German) [Comments
on a diary of Carl Friedrich Gauss] . . 191--194
Anthony T. Winterbourne Algebra and pure time: Hamilton's
affinity with Kant . . . . . . . . . . . 195--200
Anonymous Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--205
Anonymous History of mathematics at the XVIth
International Congress of the History of
Science, Bucharest, Romania, August
26--September 3, 1981 . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Christoph J. Scriba International commission on the history
of mathematics: Business Meeting
Bucharest, Romania, September 1, 1981 207--208
Christoph J. Scriba International commission on the history
of mathematics: Report to the Division
of History of the International Union of
History and Philosophy of Science August
1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Joseph W. Dauben International commission on the history
of mathematics: Report of the Editor of
Historia Mathematica to the
International Commission on the History
of Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--215
Anonymous History of mathematics papers presented
at the XVIth International Congress of
the History of Science, Bucharest,
Romania, 1891 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--220
Pierre Dugac Hommage \`a Poisson du congrés de
Bucarest et de l'École Polytechnique de
Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
Anonymous The first symposium on the history of
mathematics in China . . . . . . . . . . 223--225
Anonymous Seminario de historia de la ciencia y de
la técnica de Aragón (Spanish) [Seminar on
the history of science and technology of
Aragon] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
Anonymous Volterra Archive at the Accademia
nazionale dei lincei . . . . . . . . . . 229--238
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleEpistemological
and social problems of the sciences in
the early Nineteenth Century: Edited by
H. N. Jahnke and M. Otte. Boston
(Reidel). 1981. 420 pp . . . . . . . . . 239--245
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleIt seems I am a
jew: By Grigori Freiman. Translated,
edited, and with an introduction by
Melvyn B. Nathanson, Carbondale
(Southern Illinois University Press).
1980. 97 pp. \$9.95} . . . . . . . . . . 245--247
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe emergence of
number: By John N. Crossley. Victoria,
Australia (Upside Down A Book Company).
1980. 376 pp. Paper. A \$14.50 + A
\$2.50 p. & P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--251
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleProlegomena alle
``vite dei matematici'' di Bernardino
Baldi (1587--1596): (Accademia Polacca
delle Scienze. Biblioteca e Centro di
Studi a Roma: Conferenze e Studi 71). By
Bronislaw Bilinski. Wroclaw, 1977. 135
pp. Zloty 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--252
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--259
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 260--261
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 262--262
James B. Freeman Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--264
Max H. Fisch Peirce's place in American life . . . . 265--289
Hilary Putnam Peirce the logician . . . . . . . . . . 290--301
Ernest Nagel Charles Peirce's place in philosophy . . 302--310
Joseph W. Dauben Peirce's place in mathematics . . . . . 311--325
Kenneth Laine Ketner Carolyn Eisele's place in Peirce studies 326--332
Carolyn Eisele Mathematical methodology in the thought
of Charles S. Peirce . . . . . . . . . . 333--341
Anonymous Israel colloquium founded . . . . . . . 342--342
Anonymous A mathematical manuscript of the XIV
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343
Garry J. Tee Charles Babbage materials in New Zealand
and Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344--345
Isabella G. Bashmakova and
A. N. Kolmogorov and
A. I. Markushevitch and
A. N. Parshin and
A. P. Youshkevitch Book Review: \booktitleAbrégé d'histoire
des mathématiques, 1700--1900: Edited by
J. Dieudonné. I. Alg\`ebre, analyse
classique, théorie des nombres. II.
Fonctions elliptiques, analyse
fonctionnelle, géométrie différentielle,
topologie, probabilités, logique
mathématique. Sous la direction de J.
Dieudonné, de l'Institut. Avec la
collaboration de P. Dugac, W. J. et Fern
Ellison, J. Guérindon, M. Guillaume, G.
Hirsch, C. Houzel, Paulette Libermann,
M. Lo\`eve, et J.-L. Verley. Paris
(Hermann), 1978. x + 385, vii + 472 . . 346--360
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--367
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 371--371
Jesper Lützen Joseph Liouville's contribution to the
theory of integral equations . . . . . . 373--391
Helena M. Pycior Early criticism of the symbolical
approach to algebra . . . . . . . . . . 392--412
Erhard Scholz Herbart's influence on Bernhard Riemann 413--440
Gert Schubring Ansätze zur begründung theoretischer terme
in der mathematik-Die theorie des
unendlichen bei Johann Schultz . . . . . 441--484
Anonymous The life and work of Charles Babbage . . 485--485
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--486
Anonymous Workshop in the preparation of
historical material for classroom use 486--486
Anonymous A plane request . . . . . . . . . . . . 487--487
Anonymous Dissertation in progress . . . . . . . . 488--488
Gregory H. Moore Book Review: \booktitleA half century of
Polish mathematics: Remembrances and
reflections: By Kazimierz Kuratowski.
Preface by Stanislaw Ulam. Oxford
(Pergamon) and Warsaw (PWN, Polish
Scientific Publishers). 1980. viii + 200
pp. 72 photographs . . . . . . . . . . . 489--495
Gregory H. Moore Book Review: \booktitleWaclaw
Sierpi\'nski: Oeuvres choisies: Edited
by Stanislaw Hartman, Kazimierz
Kuratowski, Edward Marczewski, Andrezj
Mostowski, Andrezj Schinzel, Roman
Sikorski, and Marceli Stark. 3 vols.
Warsaw (PWN). 1974--1976. 3 photographs 489--495
Hubert Kennedy Book Review: \booktitleMatematica: Un
profilo storico: By Dirk J. Struik. With
an appendix by Umberto Bottazzini.
Translated by Umberto Bottazzini and
Virginio Sella. Bologna (Il Mulino),
1981. 363 pp. L. 12,000 . . . . . . . . 495--496
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--504
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 506--506
Anonymous Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507--507
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508--508
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 9 . . 509--512
Donald E. Knuth Review of \sl History of Binary and
other Nondecimal Numeration, by Anton
Glaser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--243
Joseph W. Dauben Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Anthony Lo Bello Albertus Magnus and mathematics: a
translation with annotations of those
portions of the commentary on Euclid's
\booktitleElements published by Bernhard
Geyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--23
Philip C. Enros The Analytical Society (1812--1813):
Precursor of the renewal of Cambridge
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--47
Kirsti Andersen The mathematical technique in Fermat's
deduction of the law of refraction . . . 48--62
Robert J. Wagner Euclid's intended interpretation of
superposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
Wilbur Knorr On the transmission of geometry from
Greek into Arabic . . . . . . . . . . . 71--78
Eddie Shoesmith Expectation and the early probabilists 78--80
Jens Hòyrup Sixth-century intuitive probability: the
statistical significance of a miracle 80--84
J. D. Zund Some comments on Riemann's contributions
to differential geometry . . . . . . . . 84--89
Anonymous Euler Colloquium: Berlin, May 12--14,
1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Anonymous A Seminar in the History of Mathematics 91--92
Anonymous Use of history of mathematics in schools
and colleges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Giorgio Israel and
Laura Nurzia Correspondence and manuscripts recovered
at the Istituto Matematico ``G.
Castelnuovo'' of the University of Rome 93--97
Menso Folkerts Materials for the history of Western
European mathematics in the Middle Ages
and Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
W. W. Piegorsch Has J. G. Mendel been ``Too accurate''
in his experiments? The $ \chi^2 $ test
and its significance to the evaluation
of genetic segregation . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Anonymous The history of linear perspective . . . 100--100
Anonymous Australian news and information letter 101--101
Anonymous Dissertation completed . . . . . . . . . 101--101
Anonymous The collected works of Kurt Gödel . . . . 101--102
Charles D. Aronson Marx's mathematical manuscripts . . . . 103--104
Claudia Zaslavsky Book Review: \booktitleBlack
mathematicians and their works: Edited
by Virginia K. Newell, Joella H. Gipson,
L. Waldo Rich, and Beauregard
Stubblefield. Ardmore, PA (Dorrance &
Company), 1980. 327 pp. \$18.00 (cloth),
\$12.50 (paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--115
Claudia Zaslavsky Book Review: \booktitleA Negro history
compendium: By Ethel M. Turner. Cheyney,
PA (Cheyney State College), 1971. 74 pp 105--115
Owen Gingerich Book Review: \booktitleJohannes Kepler
--- Mysterium cosmographicum --- The
secret of the universe: Translation by
A. M. Duncan. Introduction and
Commentary by E. J. Aiton. New York
(Abaris Books). 1981. 268 pp. \$20} . . 116--117
Jeremy Kilpatrick Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
discoveries: 1600--1750: By P. L.
Griffiths. Ilfracombe, England
(Stockwell). 1977. 121 pp. \pounds 2.75 117--118
Ronal Calinger Book Review: \booktitleA history of the
calculus of variations from the 17th
through the 19th century: By Herman H.
Goldstine. New York (Springer-Verlag).
1980. Studies in the History of
Mathematics and Physical Sciences 5,
xvii + 410 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--121
Peter Hilton Book Review: \booktitleThe mathematical
experience: By Philip J. Davis and
Reuben Hersh. Boston et al.: Birkhauser,
1981. xix + 440 pp . . . . . . . . . . . 122--125
Edward Grant Book Review: \booktitleJordanus de
nemore. De numeris datis: a critical
edition and translation by Barnabas
Bernard Hughes, O.F.M. Berkeley
(University of California Press). 1981.
xi + 212 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--129
M. Pycior Helena Book Review: \booktitleSir William Rowan
Hamilton: By Thomas L. Hankins.
Baltimore/London (Johns Hopkins
University Press). 1980. xxi + 474 pp.
\$32.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--132
F. Aspray William Book Review: \booktitleBrouwer's
Cambridge lectures on intuitionism:
Edited by D. van Dalen. Cambridge
(Cambridge University Press). 1981. xii
+ 109 pp. Appendix: Selections from
Brouwer's private notes. Editor's
preface and notes. Bibliography . . . . 132--135
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--143
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 144--146
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 147--147
John Synowiec Distributions: the evolution of a
mathematical theory . . . . . . . . . . 149--183
Frederick Gregory Neo-Kantian foundations of geometry in
the German Romantic Period . . . . . . . 184--201
William C. Waterhouse Quantifier problems beyond uniformity 202--207
Anonymous Recent Meetings of the British Society
for the History of Mathematics . . . . . 208--209
Anonymous The Second Congress of the Spanish
Society of History of Science . . . . . 209--210
Anonymous History of Mathematics Workshop, Summer
1983: University of Toronto, Toronto,
Canada July 25--August 2 . . . . . . . . 210--211
Anonymous Journées D'histoire des Mathématiques:
Lundi 6 Juin--Vendredi 10 Juin, 1983
Centre International de Rencontres
Mathématiques, Marseille, France . . . . 211--213
Christa Binder History of Mathematics, Oberwolfach,
1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--223
Anonymous Projet de publication . . . . . . . . . 224--224
Emil A. Fellmann Leonhard Euler, 1707--1783: Memorial
volume on the 200th anniversary of his
death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--227
William Aspray Book Review: \booktitleFrom Eniac to
Univac: an appraisal of the
Eckert--Mauchly computers: By Nancy
Stern. Bedford, MA (Digital Press).
1981. x + 286 pp. Appendix: ``First
Draft of a Report on the EDVAC'' by John
von Neumann. Bibliography . . . . . . . 228--233
Henry S. Tropp Book Review: \booktitleA history of
computing in the twentieth century:
Edited by N. Metropolis, J. Howlett, and
Gian-Carlo Rota. New York (Academic
Press). 1980. xix + 659 pp. \$29.50} . . 233--236
Donald E. Knuth Book Review: \booktitleHistory of binary
and other nondecimal numeration: By
Anton Glaser. Los Angeles, CA (Tomash
Publishers). 1981. 218 + xiii pp . . . . 236--243
Garrett Birkhoff Book Review: \booktitleJohn von Neumann
and Norbert Wiener: By Steve Heims.
Cambridge, Mass., and London (M.I.T.
Press). 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--248
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--256
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 259--259
Menso Folkerts Kurt Vogel: Biographie und bibliographie 261--273
Christoph J. Scriba Gregory's converging double sequence: a
new look at the controversy between
Huygens and Gregory over the
``analytical'' quadrature of the circle 274--285
Ivo Schneider Potenzsummenformeln im 17. Jahrhundert 286--296
Raffaella Franci and
Laura Toti Rigatelli Maestro Benedetto da Firenze e la storia
dell'algebra. (Italian) [Maestro
Benedetto of Florence and the history of
algebra] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--317
Eberhard Knobloch Von Riemann zu Lebesgue --- Zur
Entwicklung der Integrationstheorie.
(German) [From Riemann to Lebesgue ---
on the development of the theory of
integration] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--343
D. H. Fowler and
E. G. Turner Hibeh papyrus i 27: an early example of
Greek arithmetical notation . . . . . . 344--359
Kurt Vogel Ein Vermessungsproblem reist von China
nach Paris. (German) [A measurement
problem travels from China to Paris] . . 360--367
Anonymous Conference on Renaissance Mathematics:
Keble College, Oxford, September 26--30,
1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--368
Anonymous International Seminar on Jain
Mathematics and Cosmology: November
20--24, 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--371
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--379
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 382--382
A. P. Youschkevitch A. N. Kolmogorov: Historian and
philosopher of mathematics on the
occasion of his 80th birthday . . . . . 383--395
A. P. Youschkevitch and
S. S. Demidov and
Pierre Dugac F. A. Medvedev et son apport \`a
l'histoire de la théorie des fonctions.
(French) [F. A. Medvedev and his
contribution to the history of the
theory of functions] . . . . . . . . . . 397--398
Warren Van Egmond The algebra of master Dardi of Pisa . . 399--421
Kurt-R. Biermann C. F. Gauss als Mathematik- und
Astronomiehistoriker . . . . . . . . . . 422--434
Menso Folkerts Eine bisher unbekannte Abhandlung über
das Rechenbrett aus dem Beginnenden 14.
Jahrhundert. (German) [A previously
unknown treatise on the abacus from the
early 14th Century] . . . . . . . . . . 435--447
David E. Rowe A forgotten chapter in the history of
Felix Klein's Erlanger Programm . . . . 448--454
Rosine G. Van Oss D'Alembert and the fourth dimension . . 455--457
Anonymous Commemoration of the death of Giuseppe
Peano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458--458
Jean Dhombres French Mathematical Society: a week on
the history of mathematics (Marseilles,
CIRM, 6--10 June, 1983) . . . . . . . . 459--459
Anonymous Centro Studi della Matematica Medioevale
publication series . . . . . . . . . . . 460--460
Anonymous First world directory of historians of
Chinese mathematics . . . . . . . . . . 461--461
David E. Rowe Book Review: \booktitleEmmy Noether,
1882--1935: By Auguste Dick. Translated
by H. I. Blocher. Boston/Basel/Stuttgart
(Birkhäuser). 1981. 193 pp . . . . . . . 462--466
David E. Rowe Book Review: \booktitleEmmy Noether: a
tribute to her life and work: Edited by
James W. Brewer and Martha K. Smith. New
York and Basel (Marcel Dekker). 1981.
180 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--466
Michio Yano Book Review: \booktitleGeometry in
Ancient & Medieval India: By T. A.
Sarasvati Amma. Delhi/Varanasi/Patna
(Motilal Banarsidass). 1979. xi + 280
pp. Rs. 60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467--470
Edith Dudley Sylla Book Review: \booktitleThe medieval
Latin translation of the Data of Euclid:
By Shuntaro Ito. Tokyo/Boston, Basel,
Stuttgart (University of Tokyo
Press/Birkhaüser). 1980. ix + 256 pp.
\$34.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471--475
Robin E. Rider Book Review: \booktitleLeonhardi Euleri
commentationes mechanicae ad theoriam
machinarum pertinentes volumen
posterius: Series secunda. Opera
mechanica et astronomica. Vol. 16. Bern
(Societatis Scientiarum Naturalium
Helveticae). 1979. xvii + 327 pp. . . . 476--477
Robin E. Rider Book Review: \booktitleLeonhardi Euleri
commentationes mechanicae et
astronomicae ad scientiam navalem
pertinentes volumen posterius: Series
secunda. Opera mechanica et astronomica.
Vol. 21. Bern (Societatis Scientiarum
Naturalium Helveticae). 1978. ccxlii +
241 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476--477
S. A. Jayawardene Book Review: \booktitleÜber die
Handschrift CLM 26639 der bayerischen
Staatsbibliothek Müchen: Eine mögliche
Quelle zu Widmanns deutschem Rechenbuch
von 1489. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der
Mathematik im ausgehenden Mittelalter.
By Wolfgang Kaunzner. (Arbor
scientiarum, Beiträge zur
Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Reihe B: Texte,
Band I). Hildesheim (Gerstenberg
Verlag). 1978. vii + 125 pp. 114 DM . . 478--479
Emmanuil Papamastorakis and
Roland Stowasser Problemgeschichite der mathematik. I.
(German) [Problem history of
mathematics. I] . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--482
Emmanuil Papamastorakis and
Roland Stowasser Problemgeschichite der mathematik. II 480--482
Emmanuil Papamastorakis and
Roland Stowasser Problemgeschichte der neueren
mathematik. (1800--1950) . . . . . . . . 480--482
A. F. Monna Book Review: \booktitleFelix Hausdorff:
Ein mathematiker seiner Zeit: By Herbert
Mehrtens, with forewords by Professor E.
Brieskorn and E. Voigt. Bonn
(Mathematisches Institut). 1980. 40 pp.
Illustrated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483--484
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485--490
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 491--492
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 493--493
Anonymous Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--494
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--495
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 10 . . 496--499
Joseph W. Dauben Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Jacques Dutka Richardson extrapolation and Romberg
integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--21
John L. Greenberg Alexis Fontaine's route to the calculus
of several variables . . . . . . . . . . 22--38
Frank J. Swetz and
Ang Tian Se A brief chronological and bibliographic
guide to the history of Chinese
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--56
Herman Van Looy A chronology and historical analysis of
the mathematical manuscripts of
Gregorius a Sancto Vincentio
(1584--1667) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--75
Marcia Ascher Mathematical ideas in non-Western
cultures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--80
Wilfred Theisen Euclid, relativity, and sailing . . . . 81--85
Roger Herz-Fischler What are propositions 84 and 85 of
Euclid's data all about? . . . . . . . . 86--91
Anonymous Recent meetings of the British Society
for the History of Mathematics . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Tricentenary of Leibniz's
``\booktitleNova Methodus'' . . . . . . 93--93
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleElie Cartan ---
Albert Einstein, letters on absolute
parallelism 1929--1932: Original text,
English translation by Jules Leroy and
Jim Ritter; edited by Robert Debever.
Princeton, NJ (Princeton Univ. Press).
1979. xvii + 233 pp. . . . . . . . . . . 94--96
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDürer: Kunst und
Geometrie: By Eberhard Schröder. Berlin
(Akademie-Verlag). 1980. 79 pp.
Illustrated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMathematicians
and Their Times: History of mathematics
and mathematics of history:
(North-Holland Mathematics Studies, No.
48). By Laurence Chisholm Young.
Amsterdam/New York (North-Holland).
1981. x + 344 pp. \$36.50} . . . . . . . 99--100
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleA source book in
Medieval science: Edited by Edward
Grant. Cambridge, MA (Harvard Univ.
Press). 1974. xviii + 864 pp. . . . . . 100--102
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleSophie Germain.
An essay in the history of the theory of
elasticity: Studies in the history of
modern science: Vol. 6. By Louis L.
Bucciarelli and Nancy Dworsky.
Dordrecht/Boston/London (Reidel). 1980.
xii + 147 pp. Cloth Dfl. 60/U.S. \$30.00
Paper Dfl. 30/U.S. \$15.00 . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleWissenschaft und
Bildung in der Mathematik des 19.
Jahrhunderts: By Hans Niels Jahnke.
Bielefeld, BRD (Institüt für Didaktik der
Mathematik, Universität Bielefeld). 1981 104--106
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHistory of
functional analysis: (Notas de
Matemática, No. 77; North-Holland
Mathematics Studies, No. 49). By Jean
Dieudonné. Amsterdam (North-Holland).
1981. vi + 312 pp. U.S. \$29.50/Dfl.
65.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--108
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe prehistory of
the theory of distributions: Studies in
the history of mathematics and physical
sciences: By Jesper Lützen. New
York/Heidelberg/Berlin
(Springer-Verlag). 1982. 232 pp.
\$42.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Albert C. Lewis . . 112--119
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 120--122
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 123--123
John L. Berggren Abraham J. Sachs (1914--1983): In
memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--125
D. H. Fowler Eric Gardner Turner (1911--1983): In
Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--130
Karsten Johnsen Zum Beweis von C. F. Gauss für die
irreduzibilität des $p$-ten
kreisteilungspolynoms. (German) [On the
proof of C. F. Gauss of the
irreducibility index of the $p$-th
circular distribution polynomials] . . . 131--141
William C. Waterhouse A note by Gauss referring to ideals? . . 142--146
Gregg De Young The Arabic textual traditions of
Euclid's \booktitleElements . . . . . . 147--160
Giorgio Israel and
Laura Nurzia The Poincaré-Volterra theorem: a
significant event in the history of the
theory of analytic functions . . . . . . 161--192
E. S. Kennedy Applied mathematics in the Tenth
Century: Abu'l-wafa' calculates the
distance Baghdad--Mecca . . . . . . . . 193--206
Zarko Dadi\'c Some methodological aspects of
Getaldi\'c's mathematical works . . . . 207--214
Curt C. Christian Gödel's contribution to the justification
of Leibniz' notion of the infinitesimals 215--219
Anonymous A tribute to Leonhard Euler: 1707--1783 220--220
Gene B. Chase and
Calvin Jongsma Bibliography of Christianity and
mathematics: 1910--1983 . . . . . . . . 220--221
Anonymous The department of mathematics:
university of algebra (1908--1982) . . . 221--221
C. J. Scriba Symposium on transmission of
mathematical science: International
commission on the history of Mathematics
(International Union on the history and
philosophy of Science, division of the
history of Science) XVIIth International
Congress on the history of Science
Berkeley, 1--8 August 1985 . . . . . . . 222--225
Anonymous The IVth scientific instrument
symposium, October 23--26, 1984,
Amsterdam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--226
Anonymous Bertrand Russell's early technical
philosophy, 1895--1922 . . . . . . . . . 226--226
Helena M. Pycior History of Mathematics summer workshop
University of Toronto, July 25--August
2, 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--229
Anonymous Sociedad Matematica Peruana . . . . . . 229--229
Anonymous A directory of women in the history of
science, medicine, and technology . . . 230--230
Anonymous H. Davenport papers and letters . . . . 231--231
A. Arcavi and
M. Bruckheimer Development and evaluation of materials
on the history of mathematics for
teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--232
W. A. Edson Chebyshev's approximations . . . . . . . 233--233
Jan A. van Maanen Book Review: \booktitleThe land of
Stevin and Huygens: Studies in the
history of modern science: Vol. 7. By
Dirk J. Struik. Dordrecht/Boston/London
(Reidel). 1981. xx + 162 pp., 24 plates.
Bibliography. Index. Bound \$39.50,
paperback \$19.50. Translation (by D. J.
Struik) of: \booktitleHet Land van
Stevin en Huygens: Sunschrift, Vol. 134.
By D. J. Struik. 3rd rev. ed. Nijmegen
(Sun). 1979. 156 pp., 16 plates.
Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Hfl 18.50 234--237
A. Rupert Hall Book Review: \booktitleThe collected
letters of Colin Maclaurin: Edited by
Stella Mills. 4 Church Lane, Nantwich,
Cheshire, England (Shiva Pub. Ltd.).
1982. xx + 496 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . 237--239
Anthony Lo Bello Book Review: \booktitleMedieval
mensuration: quadrans vetus and
geometrie due sunt partes
principales\ldots: Edited by Nan L.
Hahn. Transactions of the American
Philosophical Society, Vol. 72 Part 8.
Philadelphia (The American Philosophical
Society). 1982. 204 pp. + lxxxv . . . . 239--240
Joan Livingston Richards Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte der
geometrie: By Klaus Mainzer. Mannheim,
Wein, Zurich (Bibliographisches
Institut). 1980. 207 pp. Bibliography.
Name and subject indexes . . . . . . . . 240--241
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242--249
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 250--251
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 252--252
Menso Folkerts Helmuth Gericke: On the occasion of his
75th birthday . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--257
Garrett Birkhoff and
Erwin Kreyszig The establishment of functional analysis 258--321
Anonymous Kenneth O. May Fellowship in the History
of Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Jeremy Gray Workshop on the History of Mathematics,
14--15 April 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . 323--324
Y. T. Langermann and
J. P. Hogendijk A hitherto unknown Hellenistic treatise
on the regular polyhedra . . . . . . . . 325--326
G. J. Tee Book Review:
\booktitle\'Si\.syadh\=\iv\.rddhida
Tantra of Lalla with the commentary of
Mallik\=arjuna S\=uri, Part 2,
translation and mathematical notes:
Critical edition with introduction,
English translation, notes, and indices
by Bina Chatterjee. New Delhi (Indian
National Science Academy). 1981. xxviii
+ 340 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--329
M. S. Klamkin Book Review: \booktitleThe Scottish
book: Mathematics from the Scottish
cafe: Edited by R. Daniel Mauldin.
Boston (Birkhauser). 1981. xiii + 268
pp. \$24.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329--329
S. S. Chern Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte des
mannigfaltigkeitsbegriffs von Riemann
bis Poincaré: By Erhard Scholz. Boston
(Birkhauser). 1980. 430 pp . . . . . . . 330--330
Ivor Bulmer-Thomas Book Review: \booktitleThe mathematical
science of Christopher Wren: By J. A.
Bennett. New York/Cambridge/London
(Cambridge Univ. Press). 1983. viii +
148 pp. 35 figures in text. \$29.95} . . 330--333
Marjorie L. Senechal Book Review: \booktitleDescartes on
polyhedra: By P. J. Federico. New York
(Academic Press). 1983 . . . . . . . . . 333--334
Alan C. Bowen Book Review: \booktitleThe beginnings of
Greek mathematics: By Árpád Szabó
(translated by A. M. Ungar from Anfänge
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(Reidel). 1978. 353 pp. + index (5 pp.).
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Paris (J. Vrin). 491 pp. fr. 75.90 . . . 345--346
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--354
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Charles V. Jones and
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Henry S. Tropp Kenneth O. May, 1915--1977: His early
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Philip Enros Kenneth O. May --- Bibliography . . . . 380--393
J. L. Berggren History of Greek mathematics: a survey
of recent research . . . . . . . . . . . 394--410
Bernard R. Goldstein Eratosthenes on the ``measurement'' of
the earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--416
Michael S. Mahoney Changing canons of mathematical and
physical intelligibility in the later
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Helena M. Pycior Internalism, externalism, and beyond:
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Thomas Hawkins The Erlanger Programm of Felix Klein:
Reflections on its place in the history
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Judith V. Grabiner Artificial intelligence: Debates about
its use and abuse . . . . . . . . . . . 471--480
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fr\`eres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--24
Kripa Nath Sinha 'Sr\^\ipati: an eleventh-century Indian
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Peter Òhrstròm W. R. Hamilton's view of algebra as the
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John W. Dawson, Jr. Completing the Gödel--Zermelo
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Donald B. Wagner A proof of the Pythagorean Theorem by
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Anonymous Conference on History and Philosophy of
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Albert C. Lewis Bertrand Russell Conference . . . . . . 74--78
Anonymous Third International Conference on the
History of Chinese Science: Beijing,
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Anonymous Australian Mathematical Society, 28th
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David E. Rowe Felix Klein's ``\booktitleErlanger
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Walter Strobl Aus den wissenschaftlichen anfängen
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Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Albert C. Lewis . . 191--199
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Lam Lay-Yong and
Shen Kangsheng The Chinese concept of Cavalieri's
principle and its applications . . . . . 219--228
Parmanand Singh The so-called Fibonacci numbers in
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Edward R. Hogan The mathematical miscellany (1836--1839) 245--257
Walerian Piotrowski Wladys\law Kretkowski and Hilbert's
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Paulus Gerdes Three alternate methods of obtaining the
ancient Egyptian formula for the area of
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Jan P. Hogendijk Th\=abit ibn Qurra and the pair of
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(Leipzig). 1981. 104 pp. . . . . . . . . 278--291
David E. Rowe Book Review: \booktitleNeohumanism and
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Humblot (Berlin). 1970. 330 pp. . . . . 278--291
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(Urbino). 1982. 126 pp. 8 illustrations.
Lire 12,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--295
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pp. DM 38,- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--296
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLa raccolta Carlo
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Anonymous Journées d'histoire des sciences de
Marseille: Les 4 et 5 octobre 1985 . . . 298--299
Anonymous Abstract: Edited by Albert C. Lewis . . 300--308
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 309--311
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 312--312
Eberhard Knobloch and
Helena Pycior New editors named for \booktitleHistoria
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Joseph W. Dauben Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--320
Christoph J. Scriba A farewell from the parting Chairman of
the International Commission on the
History of Mathematics . . . . . . . . . 321--322
A. I. Dale A study of some early investigations
into exchangeability . . . . . . . . . . 323--336
Alejandro R. Garciadiego The emergence of some of the nonlogical
paradoxes of the theory of sets,
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Eddie Shoesmith Thomas Simpson and the arithmetic mean 352--355
John W. Kennedy and
Louis V. Quintas and
Maciej M. Syslo The theorem on planar graphs . . . . . . 356--368
Christoph J. Scriba Thirty years of the ``History of
mathematics'' at Oberwolfach: In
remembrance of J. E. Hofmann
(1900--1973) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--371
Anonymous New Executive Committee for ICHM . . . . 372--372
Anonymous New, updated supplement to the World
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Anonymous Comisión de estudios de Historia de la
Matemática en América Latina . . . . . . . 373--374
R. C. Gupta History of Mathematics at the Indian
Science Congress-1985 . . . . . . . . . 375--378
Thomas L. Drucker Session on the History of Logic 817th
Meeting of the American Mathematical
Society: Chicago, Illinois, 22--23 March
1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--382
Anonymous Symposium on Disciplinary Limitations in
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Loi, and R. Thom. Paris (Éditions du
Seuil). 1982. 273 pp . . . . . . . . . . 388--389
David E. Rowe Book Review: \booktitle100 Years of
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George Temple. New York (Springer).
1981. xvi + 316 pp. Bibliography. Author
and subject indexes . . . . . . . . . . 390--391
Philip C. Enros Book Review: \booktitleGreat moments in
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No. 5. Washington, D.C. (The
Mathematical Association of America).
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paperback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391--393
Philip C. Enros Book Review: \booktitleGreat moments in
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No. 7. Washington, D.C. (The
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Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--400
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 401--403
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 404--404
Anonymous Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--405
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 12 . . 407--410
Joseph W. Dauben A message from the International
Commission on the History of Mathematics 1--1
Eberhard H. Knobloch and
Helena M. Pycior Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Werner Jentsch Auszüge aus einer unveröffentlichten
Korrespondenz von Emmy Noether und
Hermann Weyl mit Heinrich Brandt.
(German) [Excerpts from unpublished
correspondence of Emmy Noether and
Hermann Weyl with Henry Brandt] . . . . 5--12
Colin R. Fletcher Refugee mathematicians: a German crisis
and a British response, 1933--1936 . . . 13--27
J. J. Burckhardt Euler's work on number theory: a
concordance for A. Weil's Number theory 28--35
A. P. Youschkevitch Chinese mathematics: Some bibliographic
comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Alejandro R. Garciadiego On rewriting the history of the
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Anonymous Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre 42--42
Jan P. Hogendijk Discovery of an 11th-century geometrical
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Gert Schubring The three parts of the Dirichlet
Nachlass [legacy] . . . . . . . . . . . 52--56
Anonymous Fourth International Conference on the
History of Chinese Science, May 16--21,
1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--57
Anonymous First Austrian Symposium on the History
of Mathematics: Mathematics-Stimulating
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Anonymous History and Pedagogy of Mathematics
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Anonymous History and Philosophy of Mathematics
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Anonymous African Miniconference on History of
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Anonymous International Symposium for History of
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Walter Purkert History of Mathematics, Oberwolfach,
1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--72
Enrico Giusti Critical editions and history of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--73
Roger Cooke A portrait of Sophia Kovalevsky . . . . 74--77
Thomas Drucker Frege, Dedekind, and Peano on the
foundations of arithmetic. Methodology
and science foundation . . . . . . . . . 77--78
E. J. Aiton Never at rest. A biography of Isaac
Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--81
Nathan Reingold A calculating people: the spead of
numeracy in early America . . . . . . . 81--82
Frank J. Swetz Geometry and algebra in ancient
civilizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--85
Jeremy Gray Number theory: an approach through
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Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--94
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 97--97
Ang Tian Se and
Frank J. Swetz A Chinese mathematical classic of the
third century: the sea island
mathematical manual of Liu Hui . . . . . 99--117
Sanford L. Segal Mathematics and German politics: the
national socialist experience . . . . . 118--135
N. G. Hairetdinova On spherical trigonometry in the
medieval near east and in Europe . . . . 136--146
William C. Waterhouse A neglected note showing Gauss at work 147--156
Eddie Shoesmith Huygens' solution to the Gambler's Ruin
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--164
Winfried Scharlau The mathematical correspondence of
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Karsten Johnsen Remarks to the third entry in Gauss'
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Anonymous Classic works in science, mathematics,
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Anonymous Papers of C. A. Truesdell and R. L.
Wilder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
Anonymous Colloque international CNRS: ``La
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Anonymous Congress on new trends in the history of
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Anonymous Two weekends on Teichmüller . . . . . . . 174--175
M. R. Chowdhury Emmy Noether Day at ICTP . . . . . . . . 175--176
Luis Carlos Arboleda Latin American Seminar on the teaching
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November 4--10, 1984 . . . . . . . . . . 176--177
S. S. Demidov and
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History of Mathematics, Odessa, USSR . . 177--179
R. C. Gupta Symposium on the Relevance and
Importance of the History of Mathematics
in Present Times in India . . . . . . . 180--182
Maria Sol de Mora Charles III Congr\`es de la societé Espagnole
d'histoire des sciences: San Sebastián,
Pays Basque, 1--6 Octobre, 1984 . . . . 182--184
George Booker International study group for the
relationship between the history and
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleA convergence of
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Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleClassics of
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Oak Park, Illinois (Moore Publishing
Company). 1982. xxv + 742 pp. \$18.00
(paper)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--195
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Albert C. Lewis . . 196--209
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 210--212
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 213--213
I. G. Bashmakova and
S. S. Demidov and
A. T. Grigorian and
A. N. Kolmogorov and
Yu. V. Prokhorov and
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occasion of his eightieth birthday . . . 215--220
Sergei Demidov Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich: Selected
publications (1976--1986) . . . . . . . 221--223
Menso Folkerts Kurt Vogel (1888--1985) . . . . . . . . 224--228
Jean-Paul Pier Mesures invariantes --- de Lebesgue \`a
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Tony Crilly The rise of Cayley's invariant theory
(1841--1862) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--254
Francesco Gana Dio e l'uomo nella matematica di
Kronecker. (Italian) [God and man in
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John W. Dawson, Jr. The papers of Kurt Gödel . . . . . . . . 277--277
Anonymous Congress on Italian Mathematics between
the Two World Wars (1920--1940) . . . . 278--278
Robert Halleux Sluse et son temps . . . . . . . . . . . 278--281
Anonymous 3rd Workshop on Concept Development in
Babylonian Mathematics: Berlin, December
9--13, 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
W. Purkert Geschichte der Mathematik: 8.12. bis
14.12. 1985 Mathematisches
Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. (German)
[History of Mathematics: 12--14 August
1985, Mathematical Research Institute in
Oberwolfach] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--292
Alejandro R. Garciadiego First International Colloquium on the
Philosophy and History of Mathematics 292--293
Lawrence H. Shirley History of mathematics in Africa: a
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Anonymous Conference on Concepts of the
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Colin R. Fletcher Amp\`ere, Faraday, and Maxwell: Three
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Erwin Neuenschawander Book Review: \booktitleCarl Friedrich
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René Taton \booktitleSur les fondements de
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Pierre Dugac. Université Pierre et Marie
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option d'histoire des sciences
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David A. King Book Review: \booktitleStudies in the
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David A. King Book Review: \booktitleMatematiki i
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Islamic Middle Ages (VIII--XVII
Centuries) and Their Works]. By G. P.
Matvievskaya and B. A. Rosenfeld. Moscow
(Nauka). 1983. 3 vols., 479 + 650 + 372
pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306--308
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Buchreihe der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, Band
IX. Münster (Aschendorff). 1984. vii +
192 pp. DM 48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--310
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--320
Anonymous Notes to contributors . . . . . . . . . 321--322
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 323--323
Lam Lay-Yong and
Ang Tian-Se Circle measurements in ancient China . . 325--340
Marta Menghini Notes on the correspondence between
Luigi Cremona and Max Noether . . . . . 341--351
Maria Sol de Mora-Charles Leibniz et le probl\`eme des partis.
Quelques papiers inédits . . . . . . . . 352--369
Germaine Aujac Le rapport di isou (Euclide V,
définition 17): Définition, utilisation,
transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--386
Anonymous Newton's \booktitlePrincipia 1687--1987:
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Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 388--388
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 389--389
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
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Anonymous Index of authors of publications
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Emily Grosholz Two Leibnizian manuscripts of 1690
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Craig G. Fraser Joseph Louis Lagrange's algebraic vision
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Anonymous Mathesis: Revista de divulgación e
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las matemáticas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--54
Anonymous The Nachlass [legacy] of Wilhelm Lorey 55--57
Anonymous Resources in the history of mathematics
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Anonymous VIIIth international congress of logic,
methodology, and philosophy of science:
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Massimo Mugnai International workshop on the Leibniz
Renaissance: the reasons for
contemporary interest in Leibniz'
thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--62
Jeremy Gray A report on the Symposium on the History
of Recent Mathematics: Sandbjerg,
Denmark, August 21--25, 1986 . . . . . . 62--63
Anonymous Deutsche mathematiker vereinigung,
Jahrestagung 1986: Universität Marburg,
September 14--19, 1986 . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleIbn al-Haytham's
completion of the conics: By Jan Pieter
Hogendijk. Berlin/Heidelberg/New
York/Tokyo (Springer-Verlag). 1985. 417
pp. \$98.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--67
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleColoured
quadrangles, a guide to the tenth book
of Euclid's \booktitleElements: By C. M.
Taisbak. Copenhagen (Museum Tusculanum
Press). 1982. 78 pp. Opuscula
Graeco-Latina (Supplementa Musei
Tusculani), Vol. 24. 45 Dkr . . . . . . 67--70
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleRecherches sur
l'oeuvre mathématique de Mei Wending
(1633--1721): By Jean-Claude Martzloff.
Mémoires de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes
Chinoises, Vol. 16. Paris (Coll\`ege de
France). 1981. 472 pp. . . . . . . . . . 70--75
Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--76
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 77--78
Anonymous Subject index of publications abstracted
in volumes 1--13 . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--117
M. Panteki William Wallace and the introduction of
continental calculus to Britain: a
letter to George Peacock . . . . . . . . 119--132
Eddie Shoesmith The continental controversy over
Arbuthnot's argument for divine
providence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--146
M. Aballagh and
A. Djebbar Découverte d'un écrit mathématique
d'al-Ha\.s\.s\=ar (XIIe S.): Le livre I
du K\=amil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--158
Takao Hayashi Var\=ahamihira's pandiagonal magic
square of the order four . . . . . . . . 159--166
Barnabas Hughes An early 15th-century algebra codex: a
description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--172
Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann Wie ist wohl Demokrit zum Rauminhalt der
Pyramide gekommen?. (German) [How did
Democritus find the cubic volume of the
pyramid?] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
Jan P. Hogendijk Observations on the icosahedron in
Euclid's \booktitleElements . . . . . . 175--177
Nathan Houser A note on the Koenigsberger--Zeuner
Repertorium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179
C. J. Scriba XVIIIth International Congress of the
History of Science: Hamburg and Munich,
Federal Republic of Germany 1--9 August
1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--181
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Mathematics, mechanics, and astronomy:
Newton (1687), Lagrange (1788), Poincaré
(1889), Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge, England, 17--20 September
1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182
Anonymous Pietro Riccardi (1828--1898): e la
storiografia delle matematiche in Italia
16--18 marzo 1987. (Italian) [Pietro
Riccardi (1828--1898): and
historiography of mathematics in Italy
16--18 March 1987] . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182
Anonymous Special session on Bertrand Russell:
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society
for the History and Philosophy of
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Klaus Mainzer Symmetrie symposion: Technische
Hochschule Darmstadt 13.--17. Juni 1986 183--185
Anonymous XVIIth international congress of history
of science: Symposium No. 18 on
Transmission of Mathematical Sciences
July 31--August 8, 1985 . . . . . . . . 185--191
Karine Chemla Conference on the history of
Mediterranean mathematics: Centre
International de Rencontres
Mathématiques, Luminy, Marseille April
16--21, 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--193
Anonymous Premier colloque international sur
l'histoire des mathématiques arabes . . . 194--194
Mark Villarino and
Michael Josephy and
Angel Ruiz-Zúñiga A Spanish edition of
\booktitleDisquisitiones Arithmeticae 195--196
Anonymous Project on interrelations between the
development of theoretical mathematics
and applications during the 19th century 196--197
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleSiméon-Denis
Poisson et la science de son temps:
Edited by Michel Métivier, Pierre
Costabel, and Pierre Dugac. Paris (École
Polytechnique-Palaisseu avec l'aide de
la Délégation aux célébrations nationales).
1981. iv + 285 pp., bibliography, index 198--200
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleI want to be a
mathematician: an automathography: By
Paul R. Halmos. New York
(Springer-Verlag). 1985. 421 pp. with 43
photographs. \$41.50} . . . . . . . . . 200--203
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe nature of
mathematical knowledge: By Philip S.
Kitcher. New York/Oxford (Oxford
University Press). 1983. xii + 286 pp.
\$25.00 hardbound; \$8.95 paperback . . 204--209
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe history of
combinatorial group theory: a case study
in the history of ideas: (Studies in the
History of Mathematics and Physical
Sciences, Vol. 9). By Bruce Chandler and
Wilhelm Magnus. (New
York/Heidelberg/Berlin:
Springer-Verlag). 1982. viii + 234 pp 209--211
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGeorge Boole: His
life and work: By Desmond MacHale.
Profiles of Genius, Vol. 2. Dún Laoghaire
(Boole Press Limited). 1985. xiii + 304
pp. \$24.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--214
Thierry Guitard On an episode in the history of the
integral calculus . . . . . . . . . . . 215--219
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Albert C. Lewis and
Garry J. Tee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--230
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 231--233
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 234--234
Hidetosi Fukagawa Algebraic curves in Japan during the Edo
period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--242
E. Seneta Chuprov on finite exchangeability,
expectation of ratios, and measures of
association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--257
Detlef Laugwitz Infinitely small quantities in Cauchy's
textbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--274
James J. Tattersall Thomas Jefferson and Douwes' method for
determining latitude . . . . . . . . . . 275--281
Pierre Crépel Le premier manuscrit de Condorcet sur le
calcul des probabilités (1772) . . . . . 282--283
Gert Almkvist Correspondence of Carleman . . . . . . . 284--284
Irving H. Anellis Mathematical logic in the Soviet Union,
1917--1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--287
Israel Halperin John von Neumann memorabilia . . . . . . 287--287
Anonymous Bicentennial commemoration of R.
Boscovich: Osservatorio Astronomico di
Brera Milano, September 15--18, 1987 . . 288--289
J. Dhombres Ars Analytica (from Vi\`ete (1591) to
Cauchy (1821)) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--289
Anonymous The Durham Thomas Harriot Seminar:
Thomas Harriot and His Times Durham,
December 14--15, 1987 . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Anonymous Boscovich in Rome, 1725--1759: His
scientific life and works: Rome, Italy,
April 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290--290
Anonymous Second Latin--American Congress on the
History of Science and Technology: São
Paulo, Brazil, 30 June to 4 July 1988 291--291
Alan C. Bowen The interaction of science and
philosophy in fifth and fourth century
Greece, May 30--June 1, 1986 . . . . . . 291--292
Antonio Lamarra L'infinito in Leibniz. Problemi e
terminologia das unendliche bei Leibniz.
Probleme und Terminologie: Simposio
Internazionale, November 6--8, 1986,
Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--294
Anonymous Discussion meeting: Newton's
\booktitlePrincipia and its legacy:
Organized by D. G. King-Hele and A. R.
Hall on behalf of the British National
Committee for the History of Science,
Medicine and Technology Carlton House
Terrace, London, June 30, 1987 . . . . . 294--295
I. Grattan-Guinness The British society for the history of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--296
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Albert C. Lewis . . 298--307
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 308--309
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 310--310
Victor J. Katz The calculus of the trigonometric
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--324
Donald A. Gillies Was Bayes a Bayesian? . . . . . . . . . 325--346
Amy Dahan-Dalmédico Mécanique et théorie des surfaces: les
travaux de Sophie Germain. (French)
[Mechanics and the theory of surfaces:
the works of Sophie Germain] . . . . . . 347--365
Frederic F. Burchsted Archives of American mathematics . . . . 366--374
Louis Charbonneau Congr\`es annuel-1986: Canadian society
for the history and philosophy of
mathematics/Société Canadienne d'histoire
et de philosophie des mathématiques . . . 375--380
Menso Folkerts Book Review: \booktitleHumanistische
Naturwissenschaft. Zur Geschichte der
Wiener mathematischen Schulen des 15.
und 16. Jahrhunderts: By Helmuth
Grössing. (Saecula Spiritalia,
herausgegeben von Dieter Wuttke, Band
8). Baden-Baden (Verlag Valentin
Koerner). 1983. 355 Seiten . . . . . . . 381--383
George Saliba Book Review: \booktitleDiophante: Les
arithmétiques: Volume III: Book IV, ccvi
+ 162 pp., illus., bibl.; Volume IV:
Books V--VII, cxxxiv + 197 pp., app.,
index. Edited by Roshdi Rashed.
Collection des Universités de France.
Paris (Société d'Edition ``les belles
Lettres''). 1984. Fr 500 (cloth) . . . . 383--386
J. L. Berggren Book Review: \booktitleDiophante: Les
arithmétiques: Volume III: Book IV, ccvi
+ 162 numbered pp. (261 total pp.),
illus., bibl.; Volume IV: Books V--VII,
cxxxiv + 197 numbered pp. (253 total
pp.), app., index. Edited by Roshdi
Rashed. Collection des Universités de
France. Paris (Société d'Édition ``Les
Belles Lettres''). 1984. Fr. 500 (cloth) 386--389
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390--396
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--399
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 399--399
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 14 . . 401--404
A. D. Aleksandrov and
S. S. Demidov and
A. T. Grigoryan and
G. P. Matvievskaya and
S. S. Sirazhdinov and
A. P. Yushkevich Boris A. Rozenfeld: On the 70th
anniversary of his birth . . . . . . . . 1--8
J. Dhombres and
M. Pensivy Esprit de rigueur et présentation
mathématique au XVIII$^{{\grave e}me}$
si\`ecle: le cas d'une démonstration
d'Aepinus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--31
Victor E. Thoren Prosthaphaeresis revisited . . . . . . . 32--39
Winfried Scharlau Die Entdeckung der Sylow--Sätze. (German)
[Discovery of the Sylow theorems] . . . 40--52
Margherita Benzi Un ``Probabilista neoclassico'':
Francesco Paolo Cantelli . . . . . . . . 53--72
Christoph J. Scriba Who is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74
Anonymous Summer School and Conference on
Mathematical Logic . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Angelo Guerraggio Italian Mathematics between the Two
World Wars (1920--1940) . . . . . . . . 76--77
R. C. Gupta National Seminar on the Scientific
Heritage of India . . . . . . . . . . . 77--81
Fritz Nagel 1687/1987: Der Ausbau des Calculus durch
Leibniz und die Brüder Bernoulli:
Symposion, Basel, June 15--17, 1987 . . 81--82
Michael Otte Symposium on ``\,`Style' as a Category
of the History and Philosophy of
Science'': Brakel, Federal Republic of
Germany, June 17--19, 1987 . . . . . . . 83--84
Anonymous The Fourth International Symposium on
the History of Arabic Science: Aleppo
University, April 21--26, 1987 . . . . . 85--86
Bernd Bekemeyer Research group on the history of
mathematical textbooks (GRIMM) . . . . . 87--88
Robin E. Rider Book Review: \booktitleThe history of
mathematics from antiquity to the
present: a selective bibliography:
Edited by Joseph W. Dauben. New York
(Garland). 1985. 508 pp. \$80.00. ISBN
0-8240-9284-8} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Eberhard Knobloch Book Review: \booktitleEn lisant le
mémoire de Seidel de 1847: Par Pierre
Dugac. Université Pierre et Marie Curie
(Paris VI), DEUGSSM. 2$^{{\grave e}}m e$
Année, Option d'Histoire des Sciences
(Février--Avril 1984). Paris. 1984. 29 pp 90--97
Albert C. Lewis Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 100--100
Erwin Neuenschwander A brief report on a number of recently
discovered sets of notes on Riemann's
lectures and on the transmission of the
Riemann Nachlass [legacy] . . . . . . . 101--113
Hans Georg Knapp Zahl als Zeichen --- zur
``Technisierung'' der Arithmetik im
Mittelalter. (German) [Number as a sign
--- ``mechanization'' of arithmetic in
the Middle Ages] . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--134
Shen Kangsheng Mutual-subtraction algorithm and its
applications in ancient China . . . . . 135--147
Anonymous Neugebauer microform index of the exact
sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
Anonymous Colloque ``Condorcet'': Paris, 8--11
juin 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--151
Anonymous 2nd school of all Poland of the History
of Mathematics: Mathematics of the 19th
Century May 25--29, 1987, Mi\kedzyzdroje 151--152
Walter Purkert 28. Tagung zur Geschichte der
Mathematik: Mathematisches
Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach,
27.4--2.5.1987. (German) [28th Meeting
on the History of Mathematics:
Mathematical Research Institute in
Oberwolfach, 27 April--2 May 1987] . . . 152--164
Anonymous First Seminar on the Scientific
Tradition of Brescia: Francesco Lana
Terzi (1631--1687): La scuola gesuitica
e la scienza moderna October 8, 1987 . . 164--164
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Mathematics, mechanics, and astronomy:
Newton (1687), Lagrange (1788), Poincaré
(1889) September 17--20, 1987 . . . . . 165--170
U. Bottazzini and
A. Dahan and
J. Dhombres and
E. Giusti and
S. Roero Franco-Italian colloquy ars analytica:
September 28--October 2, 1987 . . . . . 170--171
Marco Panza Le débat sur les fondements du calcul
différentiel en France dans la seconde
moitié du XVIIIe si\`ecle: L'hypoth\`ese
réductionniste et la naissance de
l'alg\`ebre opératoire . . . . . . . . . 172--173
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitlePtolemy's
Almagest: Translated and annotated by G.
T. Toomer. New
York/Berlin/Heidelberg/Tokyo
(Springer-Verlag). 1984. 693 pp . . . . 174--176
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAlfred North
Whitehead: the man and his work. Volume
I: 1861--1910: By Victor Lowe. Baltimore
and London (Johns Hopkins University
Press). 1985. xi + 352 pp. \$27.50} . . 176--179
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleScience and
technology in medieval India --- A
bibliography of source materials in
Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian: By A.
Rahman with the Research Assistance of
M. A. Alvi, S. A. Khan Ghori, and K. V.
Sarma Murthy. New Delhi (Indian National
Science Academy). 1982. xxxi + 179 pp.
Rs. 200 (foreign price: \$70)} . . . . . 179--181
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleÜber die
entstehung von David Hilberts
``\booktitleGrundlagen der Geometrie'':
By M.-M. Toepell. Studien zur
Wissenschafts-, Sozial- und
Bildungsgeschichte der Mathematik, Band
2. Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht).
1986. 293 + xiv pp. DM 78 . . . . . . . 181--183
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe
\'sulbas\=utras of Baudh\=ayana,
\=Apastamba, K\=aty\=ayana and M\=anava
with text, English translation and
commentary: By S. N. Sen and A. K. Bag.
New Delhi (Indian National Science
Academy). 1983. viii + 293 pp. Rs. 85,
\$30} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--185
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleStatistics in
Britain, 1865--1930: the social
construction of scientific knowledge: By
Donald A. MacKenzie. (Edinburgh
University Press). 1981. viii + 306 pp 185--187
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by, Albert C. Lewis
and David E. Zitarelli . . . . . . . . . 188--194
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--195
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 196--197
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 198--198
Anonymous Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--199
Marcia Ascher Graphs in cultures: a study in
ethnomathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--227
John L. Greenberg Breaking a ``viscous circle'':
Unscrambling A.-C. Clairaut's iterative
method of 1743 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--239
Raffaella Franci Antonio de' Mazzinghi: an algebraist of
the 14th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . 240--249
Bernd J. Arnold Das Kontinuitätsprogramm zwischen Cantor
und der Nonstandard-Analysis. (German)
[The continuity program between Cantor
and nonstandard analysis] . . . . . . . 250--263
Robert Ineichen Dante-Kommentare und die Vorgeschichte
der Stochastik. (German) [Dante
Commentaries and the Prehistory of
Stochastics] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264--269
Irving H. Anellis Some unpublished papers of Jean van
Heijenoort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270--274
Nicholas A. Vonneuman Biography of John von Neumann . . . . . 275--275
C. J. Scriba 18th International Congress on the
History of Science . . . . . . . . . . . 275--278
Li Zhaohua and
Liu Dun The Second National Chinese Conference
for History of Mathematics . . . . . . . 278--280
Yoshimasa Michiwaki The International Symposium on the
History and Education of Mathematics
using Chinese Characters (ISHEM): Kiryu,
Japan, August 7--9, 1987 . . . . . . . . 280--280
Lawrence Shirley Second Pan-African Congress of
Mathematicians: University of Jos, Jos,
Nigeria, March 23--29, 1986 . . . . . . 281--281
JoséFrancisco Rodrigues Anastácio da Cunha (1744--1787), o
matemático e o poeta: Lisbon, Portugal,
October 8--10, 1987 . . . . . . . . . . 282--282
Anonymous Journées d'histoire des sciences: La
Mathématisation (1780--1830) 11--12 Mars
1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--283
Luis Saraiva Portuguese Seminar of History of
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--284
Norbert Knoche History of Algebra: Workshop, June
25--27, 1987, Essen . . . . . . . . . . 285--286
Anonymous Teaching and the history of mathematics 287--289
Jean Dhombres \booktitleLeonhard Euler 1707--1783:
Beiträge zu leben und werk: Gedenkband
des Kantons Basel-Stadt.
Basel/Boston/Stuttgart (Birkhäuser
Verlag). 1983. 555 pp . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Ignacio Angelelli Book Review: \booktitleLife and works of
Giuseppe Peano: Edited by Hubert
Kennedy. Studies in the History of
Modern Science 4. Dordrecht (Reidel).
1980. \$34.00 cloth, \$14 paper . . . . 291--294
Albert C. Lewis and
David E. Zitarelli Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--297
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 298--298
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Der Beweis des Weierstraßschen
Approximationssatzes 1885 vor dem
Hintergrund der Entwicklung der
Fourieranalysis. (French) [On the
evidence for the Weierstrass
Approximation Theorem in 1885 against
the background of Fourier Analysis] . . 299--310
Catherine Jami Western influence and Chinese tradition
in an Eighteenth Century Chinese
mathematical work . . . . . . . . . . . 311--331
Tony Crilly The decline of Cayley's invariant theory
(1863--1895) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--347
A. I. Dale On Bayes' theorem and the inverse
Bernoulli theorem . . . . . . . . . . . 348--360
James J. Tattersall Who put the ``C'' in A.-T. Vandermonde? 361--367
David C. Arney Resources in the history of mathematics
at the United States Military Academy 368--369
Anonymous International symposium on Cauchy and
the French mathematical world: Paris,
France, 27--29 July 1989 . . . . . . . . 370--371
Organisépar Amy Dahan et François De Gandt Colloque-atelier (CIRM Luminy 6--10
Juillet 1987): Physique et analyse de
Newton \`a Gauss . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
Jim Ritter History of fractions or fractions of a
history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--375
Jean Dhombres La France scientifique et technique: Les
années 1816--1824: Journée de la société
française d'histoire des sciences et des
techniques, Conservatoire des arts et
métiers, Paris, 7 Mai 1988 . . . . . . . 375--375
Víctor S. Albis and
Luis C. Arboleda Newton's \booktitlePrincipia in Latin
America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--379
David C. Arney and
Robert L. Ball and
Warren C. Chellman and
William E. Ebel, Jr. and
Martin L. Vozzo History of the Department of Mathematics
of the United States Military Academy 379--379
Miriam P. Cooney A seminar on women and mathematics . . . 380--383
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNative American
mathematics: Edited by Michael P. Closs.
Austin, Texas (University of Texas
Press). 1986. 439 pp. 13 photographs, 55
line drawings, 20 tables. Bibliography 384--386
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
perspectives: Essays on mathematics and
its historical development: Edited by
Joseph W. Dauben. New York (Academic
Press). 1981. 259 pp. \$49.50} . . . . . 386--388
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleIntellectual
mastery of nature: Theoretical physics
from Ohm to Einstein: Vol. 1, The Torch
of Mathematics 1800--1870 (\$55.00);
Vol. 2, The Now Mighty Theoretical
Physics 1870--1925 (\$65.00). By Christa
Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach.
Chicago (University of Chicago Press).
1986. xxiii + 350; xii + 435 pp . . . . 389--392
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitlePhilosophie als
Analysis: Studien zur Entwicklung
philosophischer Analysiskonzeptionen
unter den Einfluss mathematischer
Methoden-Modelle im 17. und frühen 18.
Jahrhundert: By Hans-Jürgen Engfer.
Forschungen und Materialien zur
deutschen Aufklärung (Series 2, Vol. 1).
Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
(Fromman-Holzboog). 1982. 293 pp.
\$50.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--395
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396--396
Anonymous Abstract: Edited by Albert C. Lewis and
David E. Zitarelli . . . . . . . . . . . 397--401
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 405--405
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 15 . . 407--409
Michael Otte The ideas of Hermann Grassmann in the
context of the mathematical and
philosophical tradition since Leibniz 1--35
J. Bruce Brackenridge Newton's mature dynamics and the
\booktitlePrincipia: a simplified
solution to the Kepler problem . . . . . 36--45
Paul L. Butzer and
François Jongmans P. L. Chebyshev (1821--1894) and his
contacts with Western European
scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--68
Jan P. Hogendijk Sharaf al-D\=\in al-T\=us\=\i on the
number of positive roots of cubic
equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--85
Heinrich Wefelscheid Edmund Landau memorabilia . . . . . . . 86--86
Anonymous Colloque international 1830--1930: Un
si\`ecle de géométrie, de C. F. Gauss et
B. Riemann \`a H. Poincaré et E. Cartan.
Epistémologie et histoire: Probablement
\`a l'Institut Henri Poincaré, 11 rue
Pierre et Marie Curie, 75230 Paris,
Cedex 05, France, 19--23 September 1989 87--88
Anonymous Ratio: la théorie des proportions de
l'antiquité au XIX\`eme si\`ecle: Trento,
Italia, 9--13 Janvier 1989 . . . . . . . 89--89
Otto B. Bekken and
Bengt Johansson History of mathematics Gimlekollen
Mediasenter, Kristiansand, Norway,
August 7--13, 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . 90--92
Hans J. Nissen Workshop über Begriffsbildungen in der
Babylonischen Mathematik. (German)
[Workshop on concepts in Babylonian
mathematics] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
Karen Hunger Parshall Book Review: \booktitleAda: a life and a
legacy: (MIT Press Series in the History
of Computing, Vol. 3). By Dorothy Stein.
Cambridge, MA/London (The MIT Press).
1985. xix + 321 pp. \$9.95} . . . . . . 94--95
Mary Terrall Book Review: \booktitleLeonhard Euler,
Opera Omnia: Series IVA: Commercium
epistolicum. Vol. VI: Correspondance de
Leonhard Euler avec P.-L. M. de
Maupertuis et Frédéric II. Edited by
Pierre Costabel, Eduard Winter, Asot T.
Grigorijan, and Adolph P. Juskevic.
Basel (Birkhäuser). 1986. xi + 454 pp.
SwF 192 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--103
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 106--106
Lam Lay-Yong and
Shen Kangshen Methods of Solving Linear Equations in
Traditional China . . . . . . . . . . . 107--122
Ettore Picutti Pour l'histoire des sept premiers
nombres parfaits . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--136
Luigi Indorato and
Pietro Nastasi The 1740 resolution of the
Fermat--Descartes controversy . . . . . 137--148
Colin R. Fletcher Fermat's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--153
P. C. Fenton An extremal problem in Harriot's
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--163
Anonymous The Riccati equation in control,
systems, and signals: a Workshop
Celebrating Two and a Half Centuries of
the Riccati Equation Villa Gallia, Como,
Italy, June 26--28, 1989 . . . . . . . . 164--165
Anonymous Gauss symposium: an International
Conference on Mathematics and
Theoretical Physics Guarujá, Brazil, July
22--27, 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--166
Christa Binder II. Österreichisches Symposium zur
Geschichte der Mathematik . . . . . . . 166--166
Jacques Borowczyk Université d'été d'Histoire des
Mathématiques, 28 août au 2 septembre
1988: Organisée par la Commission
INTER-IREM d'épistémologie et l'IREM de
Poitiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--168
Christian Houzel Colloque d'Histoire des mathématiques
sous le patronage de la société
mathématique de France: Au Centre
International de Rencontres
Mathématiques, Marseille, du 17 au 22
juin 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--169
Paolo Freguglia Study centre for scientific thought
between 1500 and 1600: Perugia
University, 4th Seminar of Study . . . . 170--170
C. S. Roero Giornate di storia della matematica:
Cetraro (Cosenza) Italy, September
8--12, 1988. (Italian) [Days of the
history of mathematics: Cetraro
(Cosenza) Italy, September 8--12, 1988] 171--172
Anonymous The Fifth International Leibniz
Congress: Hanover, Federal Republic of
Germany, November 14--19, 1988 . . . . . 172--173
Anonymous Les mathématiques italiennes et françaises
entre les deux guerres: Colloque \`a
l'Institut Culturel Italien Hôtel de
Galliffet, 50 rue de Varenne, VIIe, 6--7
décembre 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--174
George Ross Lagrange conference . . . . . . . . . . 174--175
Anonymous The research group REHSEIS in Paris . . 176--177
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleGauß, eine
biographische studie: By Walter
Kaufmann--Bühler. Berlin/Heidelberg
(Springer-Verlag). 1987. 191 S.
Kartoniert DM 56 . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNapoleon und die
Naturwissenschaften: By Joachim Fischer.
Boethius-Texte und Abhandlungen zur
Geschicted der exacten Wissenchaften,
Band 16, Stuutgart (Franz Steiner Verlag
Wiesbaden GmbH) 1988. xiv + 390 pp. DM 180--180
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleTeubner-Archiv
zur Mathematik. Teubner
Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig: Vol. 1: C.
F. Gauß, B. Riemann, H. Minkowski.
Gaußsche Flächentheorie, Riemannsche Räume
und Minkowski-Welt. 1984. 155 pp. DM 28.
Vol. 2: G. Cantor. Ü ber unendliche,
lineare Punktmannigfalttigkeiten.
Arbeiten zur Mengenlehre aus den Jahren
1872--1884. 1984. 180 pp. DM 32. Vol. 3:
G. Herglotz, Vorlesungen Über die
Mechanik der Kontinua. 1985. 251 pp. DM
48. Vol. 4: H. Riechardt. Gaußunf die
anfänge der nicht-euklidischen Geometrie.
Mit Original- beiten von J. Bolyai, N.
I. Lobatschewski und F. Klein . . . . . 180--184
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLa république
avait besoin de savants: By Janis
Langins. Paris (Belin). 1987. 287 pp. 9
illustrations. 90 francs . . . . . . . . 184--184
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHistoire de
l'École Polytechnique: By Ambroise
Fourcy. Introduction and notes by Jean
Dhombres. Paris (Belin). 1987. viii +
516 + 198 pp. 140 francs . . . . . . . . 184--187
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleEpisodes in the
mathematics of Medieval Islam: By J. L.
Berggren. New York (Springer-Verlag).
1986. xiv + 197 pp. \$23.00 (cloth)} . . 188--190
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleChinese
mathematics: a concise history: By Li
Yan and Du Shiran (translated by John N.
Crossley and Anthony W. C. Lun). Oxford
(Clarendon). 1987. xiii + 290 pp.
\$50.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--193
Anonymous Abstract: Edited by David E. Zitarelli 194--202
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 205--205
Menso Folkerts and
Eberhard Knobloch Christoph J. Scriba --- 60 Jahre . . . . 207--212
Barnabas Hughes The arithmetical triangle of Jordanus de
Nemore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--223
Paolo Mancosu The metaphysics of the calculus: a
foundational debate in the Paris Academy
of Sciences, 1700--1706 . . . . . . . . 224--248
Leonid Zhmud Pythagoras as a mathematician . . . . . 249--268
Luciano Boi 1830--1930: Un si\`ecle de géométrie, de
C. F. Gauss et B. Riemann \`a H. Poincaré
et E. Cartan; épistémologie, histoire, et
mathématiques: Colloque International,
18--23 septembre 1989 . . . . . . . . . 269--270
Anonymous International symposium on ``Structures
in mathematical theories'': San
Sebastián, Spain, 24--28 September 1990 270--271
David E. Rowe Symposium on the history of modern
mathematics: Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York, June 20--24,
1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--280
Liu Dun International symposium for the
commemoration of Mei Wending and the
Chinese third annual meeting on the
history of mathematics . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--284
Anonymous A research program and a course in the
history of mathematics: Ethnomathematics 285--287
Anonymous Mario Pieri: His contributions to the
foundations and teaching of geometry . . 287--288
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleWomen of
mathematics: a biobibliographic
sourcebook: Edited by Louise S.
Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, with a
foreword by Alice Schafer. New York
(Greenwood). 1987. 292 pp. \$45.00} . . 289--291
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleCantorian set
theory and limitation of size: By
Michael Hallett. Foreword by M. Dummett.
Oxford Logic Guides: 10. Oxford/New York
(Clarendon Press-Oxford Univ. Press).
1984. xxii + 343 pp. \$25.00} . . . . . 291--295
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleIslamic
mathematical astronomy: By D. A. King.
Collected Studies Series, CS 231. London
(Variorum Reprints). 1986. 342 pp . . . 295--295
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by David E. Zitarelli 296--304
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 307--307
Charles C. Gillispie Salomon Bochner as historian of
mathematics and science . . . . . . . . 316--323
Walter W. Piegorsch Durand's rules for approximate
integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--333
Erwin Neuenschwander The unpublished papers of Joseph
Liouville in Bordeaux . . . . . . . . . 334--342
Roshdi Rashed Ibn al-Haytham et les nombres parfaits.
(French) [Ibn al-Haytham and perfect
numbers] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--352
Y. Maeyama A simple, accurate, geometrical
approximation to the Keplerian motion 353--359
Karin Reich and
Menso Folkerts and
Christoph J. Scriba Das schriftenverzeichnis von Ewald
Fettweis (1881--1967) samt einer
Würdigung von Olindo Falsirol. (German)
[The index of writings of Ewald Fettweis
(1881--1967), together with an
appreciation by Olindo Falsirol] . . . . 360--372
Sonja Brentjes and
Jan P. Hogendijk Notes on Th\=abit ibn Qurra and his rule
for amicable numbers . . . . . . . . . . 373--378
Umberto Bottazzini and
Stefano Francesconi Manuscript volumes and lecture notes of
Salvatore Pincherle . . . . . . . . . . 379--380
Anonymous Science in antiquity. Scientific Centre
of Leningrad of the Academy of Sciences
of the USSR, March 20--22, 1989:
Leningrad Section of the Institute of
the History of Science and Technology of
the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . . 381--382
Detlef D. Spalt Resultatismus oder geneseologie? ---
Impulse der Nichtstandard-Analysis für
die Geschichtsschreibung: Arbeitstagung
vom 9.--11. Januar 1989 in Darmstadt,
Technische Hochschule . . . . . . . . . 382--385
Anonymous Colloque mathématiques et philosophie \`a
l'age classique: Recherches historiques:
Organisé par l'Association ``Méditerranée
et Histoire des Sciences'' et l'équipe
REHSEIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--386
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Book Review: \booktitleRudolf Lipschitz:
Briefwechsel mit Cantor, Dedekind,
Helmholtz, Kronecker, Weierstrass und
Anderen: Bearbeitet von Winfried
Scharlau (Dokumente zur Geschichte der
Mathematik, im Auftrag der Deutschen
Mathematiker-Vereinigung herausgegeben
von Winfried Scharlau, Band 2).
Braunschweig/Wiesbaden (Vieweg). 1986.
xviii + 253 Seiten . . . . . . . . . . . 387--389
Erhard Scholz Book Review: \booktitleStudies in the
history of mathematics: Edited by Esther
R. Phillips. Studies in Mathematics,
Vol. 26. Mathematical Association of
America. 1987. 308 pp . . . . . . . . . 390--392
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--405
Anonymous Notes on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--407
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 408--408
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409--409
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 16 . . 410--413
Anonymous Kurt-Reinhard Biermann zum 70.
Geburtstag. (German) [Kurt-Reinhard
Biermann's 70th Birthday] . . . . . . . ??
Joseph W. Dauben New Year's greetings from the ICHM . . . 1--3
Eberhard Knoblocho Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--5
Edward R. Hogan The fading amateur: William Lenhart and
19th-century American mathematics . . . 6--15
Manfred Kracht and
Erwin Kreyszig E. W. von Tschirnhaus: His role in early
calculus and his work and impact on
Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--35
E. Keith Lloyd Redfield's proofs of MacMahon's
conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--47
Giorgio Israel On correspondence between B. Boncompagni
and A. Genocchi . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--54
Walter Purkert 29. Tagung zur Geschichte der
mathematik: Mathematisches
Forschungsinstitu Oberwolfach,
20.11.--26.11. 1988. (German) [29th
Meeting on the History of Mathematics:
Mathematical Research Institute in
Oberwolfach, 20--26 November, 1988] . . 55--64
Nikos Kastanis The First Greek Conference on History
and Philosophy of Mathematics-Theme:
History and Philosophy of Ancient Greek
Mathematics: Athens, March 2--4, 1989 65--66
Livia Giacardi Memorial days in honour of Angelo
Genocchi: Turin, Italy, May 12--13, 1989 66--67
Jean-Claude Martzloff Deuxi\`eme colloque maghrébin sur
l'histoire des mathématiques arabes:
Tunis, 1--3 décembre 1988 . . . . . . . . 67--69
Jean-Claude Martzloff Séminaire sur la géometrie des figures \`a
travers les âges: Université d'Oran
Es-Senia, Institut des Sciences Exactes,
Algérie, 1--3 juillet 1989 . . . . . . . 69--70
Jean Dhombres Cauchy et le monde mathématique français:
Paris, 27--29 juillet 1989. (French)
[Cauchy and the French mathematical
world: 27--29 July 1989] . . . . . . . . 70--72
Anonymous Gauss Symposium: International
Conference on Mathematics and
Theoretical Physics Guarujá, Brazil, July
24--27, 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Jean Dhombres and
Enrico Giusti Colloque: Ratio-La théorie des
proportions de l'Antiquité au XIX\`eme
si\`ecle: Centro Internazionale per la
Ricerca Matematica, Trento, 9--13
janvier 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleDie Geschichte
der geometrischen Mechanik im 19.
Jahrhundert: By Renatus Ziegler. Franz
Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Stuttgart.
Boethius XIII. 1985. vii + 260 pp. DM 48 76--77
Michael Serge Book Review: \booktitleCultura, scienze
e tecniche nella Venezia del
cinquecento. Atti del convegno
internazionale di studio: Giovan
Battista Benedetti e il suo tempo:
Edited by Antonio Manno. Venice
(Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed
Arti). 1987. 503 pp . . . . . . . . . . 78--80
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 98--98
John N. Crossley and
Alan S. Henry Thus spake al-Kh\=awarizmi: a
translation of the text of Cambridge
University Library Ms. II.vi.5 . . . . . 103--131
S. J. Patterson Eisenstein and the quintic equation . . 132--140
John Fauvel and
Paulus Gerdes African Slave and Calculating Prodigy:
Bicentenary of the Death of Thomas
Fuller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--151
Maurice V. Wilkes The British Association Mathematical
Tables Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--152
Anonymous History of mathematics symposium in
conjunction with the XXIst International
Congress of Mathematicians . . . . . . . 153--153
Anonymous Math-History Conference: University of
Wisconsin--La Crosse, October 5 and 6,
1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--154
Anonymous Colloque le Continu Mathématique:
Cerisy-la-Salle, 11--21 Septembre 1990 154--155
Christa Binder Report on the first Austrian symposium
on the history of mathematics:
Mathematics-Stimulating or stimulated?:
Neuhofen an der Ybbs, Lower Austria, 9
to 15 November 1986 . . . . . . . . . . 155--157
Anonymous XVIIIth International Congress of
History of Science: Hamburg-Munich, 1--9
August 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--162
Anonymous Primeras Jornadas de la Sociedad Leibniz
de España: Analogia y expresion en
Leibniz Facultad de Filosofia y Ciencias
de la Educacion, Universidad
Complutense, 28040 Madrid; September
20--22, 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Anonymous Colloque International 1830--1930: Un
si\`ecle de géometrie, de C. F. Gauss et
B. Riemann \`a H. Poincaré et E. Cartan:
Epistémologie, Histoire et mathématiques:
Paris, September 18--23, 1989 . . . . . 162--164
Anonymous XII. Österreichischer Mathematikerkongreß:
Vienna, Austria, September 17--22, 1989 164--165
Anonymous Archimede: Mito Tradizione Scienza
Convegno Internazionale di Studi:
Syracusa-Catania, Italy, October 9--12,
1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--166
Anonymous Association Henri Poincaré pour
l'histoire et la philosophie des
mathématiques et de la physique modernes 167--168
Anonymous A new series devoted to history and
philosophy of science . . . . . . . . . 168--169
B. A. Rozenfeld Book Review: \booktitleLa théorie des
parall\`eles en pays d'Islam.
Contribution a la préhistoire des
géométries non-euclidiennes: By Khalil
Jaouiche. Paris (Vrin). 1986. 266 pp.
198 F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--172
Jens Hòyrup Book Review: \booktitleWas ist ein
Tonsystem? Eine historisch-systematische
Theorie der abendländischen Tonsysteme,
gegründet auf die antiken Theoretiker
Aristoxenos, Eukleides und Ptolemaios,
dargestellt mit Mitteln der modernen
Algebra: By Wilfried Neumaier. (Quellen
und Studien zur Musikgeschichte von der
Antike bis in die Gegenwart, Band 9).
Frankfurt a.M. etc. (Peter Lang). 1986 172--174
Jens Hòyrup Book Review: \booktitleA mathematical
history of division in extreme and mean
ratio: By Roger Herz-Fischler. Waterloo,
Ontario (Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press).
1987. xvi + 191 pp . . . . . . . . . . . 175--178
Gert Schubring Book Review: \booktitleDie Krise der
Anschauung: Studien zur Wissenschafts-,
Sozial- und Bildungsgeschichte der
Mathematik, 3. By Klaus Th. Volkert.
Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht). 1986.
xxxii + 420 pp. 98 DM . . . . . . . . . 178--180
Clas-Olof Selenius Book Review: \booktitleThe history of
mathematics in Finland 1828--1918: By
Gustav Elfving. The History of Learning
and Science in Finland 1828--1918, Vol.
4. Helsingfors (Societas Scientiarum
Fennica). 1981. 195 pp . . . . . . . . . 180--182
Renate Tobies Book Review: \booktitleDie Entstehung
des Mathematiklehrerberufs im 19.
Jahrhundert: Studien und materialien zum
Prozeßder professionalisierung in Preußen
(1810--1870): By Gert Schubring.
Bielefelder Beiträge zur
Ausbildungsforschung und Studienreform,
Bd. 2. Weinheim/Basel (Beltz). 1983. 325
S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--185
Israel Halperin Letter to the editor . . . . . . . . . . 186--186
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--197
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 198--199
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 200--200
Anonymous Lubos Nový: Sexagenarian . . . . . . . . ??
Jens Hòyrup Dýnamis, the Babylonians, and Theaetetus
147c7--148d7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--222
Ruth Farwell and
Christopher Knee The missing link: Riemann's
``Commentatio,'' differential geometry
and tensor analysis . . . . . . . . . . 223--255
Werner Bergmann Noch einmal zu den Ausnahmeregeln der
Gauss'schen Osterformel. (German) [Once
again, the exception rules of the
Gaussian Easter formula] . . . . . . . . 256--258
Anonymous The Bicentennial Conference on
Computing: a forthcoming event to
commemorate the 200th anniversary of the
birth of Charles Babbage London, 1--3
July 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--259
Anonymous 3rd Maghrebian Symposium on the History
of Arabic Mathematics: Algiers, Algeria,
1--3 December 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . 260--261
Anonymous Einstein et les quanta: Institut Henri
Poincaré, Paris, France, 9 décembre 1989 261--261
Luigi Pepe European mathematics during the
Napoleonic Period: Istituto Nazionale di
Alta Matematica, Cortona, Italy, October
9--14, 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--262
Anonymous Seminaire d'Histoire des Mathematiques
d'Orsay: Départments de Mathématiques,
Université de Paris-Sud, Centre d'Orsay,
Bt. 425, 1$^e$ étage, Salle 121--123,
France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
I. Grattan-Guinness From Fourier to Fractals: Gonville and
Caius College, Cambridge, September
13--16, 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--267
Nikos Kastanis French revolution and mathematics:
Thessaloniki, November 8--10, 1989 . . . 267--267
Anonymous Journées d'Histoire et d'Epistémologie: La
gravitation newtonienne: physique et
mécanique de Newton \`a Euler:
Observatoire de Meudon, Paris, 22--23
juin 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--268
Anonymous Colloquium on the Occasion of the 450th
Birthday of Bartholomäus Scultetus
(1540--1614): Museum, Neißstraße 30, 8900
Görlitz, German Democratic Republic, May
26, 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Karl-Heinz Schlote ``Seminar zur Geschichte der
Mathematik'' in Leipzig . . . . . . . . 269--270
Clóvis Pereira da Silva A social history of the development of
university mathematics in Brazil from
1810 to 1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
Albert C. Lewis Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
visions: the pursuit of geometry in
Victorian England: By Joan L. Richards.
Boston/San Diego (Academic Press). 1988.
xiii + 266 pp. \$34.95} . . . . . . . . 272--278
Heinz-Jürgen Hess Book Review: \booktitleDie gesammelten
Werke der Mathematiker und Physiker der
Familie Bernoulli: Daniel Bernoulli: Die
Werke. Band 3: Mechanik. Hrsg. von D.
Speiser, A. de Baenst-Vandenbroucke, J.
L. Pietenpol und R. Radelet-de Grave.
Mit Beiträgen von H. Straub.
Basel/Boston/Stuttgart (Birkhäuser).
1987. xxvii + 457 S. DM 230. Johann (I)
Bernoulli: Der Briefwechsel. Band 2: Der
Briefwechsel mit Pierre Varignon. Erster
Teil: 1692--1702. Hrsg. von P. Costabel
und J. Peiffer unter Benutzung von
Vorarbeiten von J. O. Fleckenstein.
Basel/Boston/Berlin (Birkhäuser). 1988.
xviii + 442 S. DM 198 . . . . . . . . . 279--283
Adolf P. Yshkevick Book Review: \booktitleII Circolo
matematico di Palermo: By Aldo Brigaglia
and Guido Masotto. Bari (Edizioni
Dedalo). 1982. 444 pp. Lire H. 10,000 284--287
S. L. Segal Book Review: \booktitleDie Mathematik
und ihre Dozenten an der Berliner
Universität, 1810--1933: 2nd ed. By Kurt
Biermann. Berlin (Akademie-Verlag). 1988 287--289
Richard M. Davitt Book Review: \booktitleMathematics:
People, problems, results: Edited by
Douglas M. Campbell and John C. Higgins.
Belmont, California (Wadsworth
International). 1984. 3 Vols. xxiv + 871
pp. Original price was \$39.95 (cloth);
\$27.95 (paper) . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--291
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleThe examiner.
James Booth and the origins of common
examinations: By Frank Foden. Leeds
Studies in Adult and Continuing
Education. Leeds (University of Leeds
School of Continuing Education). 1989.
vii + 221 pp. No price stated . . . . . 291--293
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--294
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--309
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 310--311
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 312--312
Ivor Grattan-Guinness The varieties of mechanics by 1800 . . . 313--338
Jean-Luc Chabert Un demi-si\`ecle de fractales:
1870--1920. (French) [A half-century of
fractals: 1870--1920] . . . . . . . . . 339--365
Jean-Claude Martzloff A survey of Japanese publications on the
history of Japanese traditional
mathematics (wasan) from the last 30
years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--373
Anonymous Colloque international sur la vie et
l'oeuvre de Girard Desargues . . . . . . 374--374
Anonymous Second annual Göttingen Workshop on the
history of modern mathematics 1991:
Mathematisches Institut der Universität
Göttingen, Bunsenstraße 3--5, 3400
Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany,
July 15--17, 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . 374--375
Anonymous National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Seminar on Plato's
\booktitleRepublic and Euclid's
\booktitleElements: June 24--August 2,
1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--376
Anonymous G. W. Leibniz: Mathematiker,
Naturwissenschaftler, Techniker:
Symposium on the Occasion of the Annual
Convention of the Gesellschaft für
Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
Hanover, Auditorium Maximum of the
Technische Universität, April 9--10, 1990 376--377
Anonymous Mathematical Sciences Past and Present:
300 Years of the Mathematische
Gesellschaft in Hamburg Geomatikum,
Universität Hamburg, Bundesstr. 55, 2
Hamburg 13, March 18--24, 1990 . . . . . 377--378
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleR. G. Boscovich:
His Life and Scientific Work: Istituto
della Enciclopedia Italiana, Accademia
Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL,
Piazza Paganica 4, 00186 Roma, May
23--27, 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--380
Anonymous Symposium International --- G. W.
Leibniz: Le meilleur des mondes: Domaine
de Seillac, France, June 7--9, 1990 . . 380--380
David E. Rowe Workshop on the History of Modern
Mathematics Göttingen, July 16--17, 1990 381--381
Dirk Struik and
Adolf P. Yushkevich Remarks of Kirk J. Struik and Adolf P.
Yushkevich on receiving the K. O. May
Prize in Hamburg, August 3, 1990 (see
\booktitleHistoria Mathematica \bf 17(1)
(1990), 1--3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--384
Anonymous A new yearbook for the history of
science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384--384
David E. Rowe Book Review: \booktitleFelix Klein and
Sophus Lie: Evolution of the idea of
symmetry in the Nineteenth Century: By
I. M. Yaglom. Translated by S.
Sossinsky. Boston/Basel (Birkhäuser).
1988. vii + 237 pp. \$40.00} . . . . . . 385--389
John McCleary Book Review: \booktitleRiemann,
topology, and physics: By Michael
Monastyrsky. Boston, Basel, Stuttgart
(Birkhäuser). 1987. xiii + 158 pp . . . . 389--390
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleA list of certain
letters inserted in books from the
Library of Augustus de Morgan
(1806--1871) now in the University of
London Library: By Maxine Merrington.
London (University of London Library).
1990. 34 pp. \pounds 2.00 . . . . . . . 391--391
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleKurt Gödel.
Collected works. Volume II. Publications
1938--1974: Editor-in-chief Solomon
Feferman. New York and Oxford: Oxford
University Press. 1990. xv + 407 pp. No
price stated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392--393
David E. Zitaralli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--414
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 415--416
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 417--417
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418--418
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 17 . . 419--423
Mariano Hormigon García de Galdeano's works on algebra . . 1--15
U. Garibaldi and
M. A. Penco Intensional vs extensional probabilities
from their origins to Laplace . . . . . 16--35
Fritz Nagel A catalog of the works of Jacob Hermann
(1678--1733) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--54
Anonymous Mathematics and Mind: a Conference on
the Philosophy of Mathematics at Amherst
College, April 5--7, 1991 . . . . . . . 55--56
R. C. Gupta Seminar on Astronomy and Mathematics in
Ancient and Medieval India: a Dialogue
between Traditional Scholars and
University-Trained Scientists . . . . . 56--62
Anonymous Mathematische Probleme im
Mittelalter-Der lateinische und
arabische Sprachbereich Wolfenbüttel,
June 18--22, 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . 62--63
Fritz Nagel The life and work of Jacob Hermann: a
Working Conference in Pisa, March 5--6,
1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--65
Anonymous Summer school: On the relation between
mathematics and its applications during
the 18th and 19th century: Pfalzakademie
Lambrecht (Neustadt/Weinstraße), May
14--18, 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
Ivo Schneider Book Review: \booktitleClassical
probability in the enlightenment: By
Lorraine Daston. Princeton, NJ
(Princeton Univ. Press). 1988. xviii +
423 pp. including bibliography and index 67--67
Ivo Schneider Book Review: \booktitleThe rise of
statistical thinking 1820--1900: By
Theodore M. Porter. Princeton, NJ
(Princeton Univ. Press). 1986. xii + 322
pp. including index . . . . . . . . . . 67--67
Ivo Schneider Book Review: \booktitleThe history of
statistics --- The measurement of
uncertainty before 1900: By Stephen M.
Stigler. Cambridge, MA (Harvard
University Press). 1986. xviii + 410 pp.
including two appendices, suggested
readings, bibliography, and index . . . 67--74
Eugene Seneta Book Review: \booktitleA history of
probability and statistics and their
applications before 1750: By Anders
Hald. Wiley Series in Probability and
Mathematical Statistics. New York
(Wiley). 1990. xii + 586 pp . . . . . . 75--78
Joan L. Richards Book Review: \booktitleBoole: L'oiseau
de nuit en plein jour: By Souleymane
Bachir Diagne. Paris: Belin, 1989 . . . 79--79
Paul R. Wolfson Book Review: \booktitleMathematics and
its history: By John Stillwell. New York
(Springer-Verlag). 1989. 371 pp.
\$49.80} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
George B. Seligman Book Review: \booktitleA century of
mathematics in America: 3 vols. Peter A.
Duren, Ed. Providence, Rhode Island
(American Mathematical Society). 1988 82--85
Erik Sageng Book Review: \booktitleThe development
of Newtonian calculus in Britain,
1700--1800: By Niccol\`o Guicciardini.
Cambridge/New York (Cambridge University
Press). 1989. xii + 228 pp. \$54.50} . . 85--88
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89
E. Zitarelli David Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--103
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 106--106
Wilbur R. Knorr On a medieval circle quadrature:
\booktitleDe circulo quadrando . . . . . 107--128
Jacques Borowczyk Sur la vie et l'oeuvre de François Budan
(1761--1840) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--157
Edward Hogan ``A proper spirit is abroad:'' Peirce,
Sylvester, Ward, and American
mathematics, 1829--1843 . . . . . . . . 158--172
William C. Waterhouse An elementary interpretation of entry 12
in Gauss's Tagebuch . . . . . . . . . . 173--176
A. W. F. Edwards A note on Waring's Rule . . . . . . . . 177--177
Anonymous Contemporary trends in the
historiography of science: Korfu, May
27--June 2, 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--178
Francine Abeles Sixteenth annual meeting: Canadian
Society for History and Philosophy of
Mathematics: University of Victoria,
B.C., 31 May--1 June, 1990 . . . . . . . 178--179
Anonymous Giornata di studio di storia delle
matematiche in onore del prof. Gino
Arrighi: Modena, October 10, 1990.
(Italian) [Day of study of the history
of mathematics in honor of Prof. Gino
Arrighi: Modena, October 10, 1990] . . . 180--180
Benno Artmann A meeting on Greek mathematics:
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut
Oberwolfach, August 19--25, 1990 . . . . 180--180
Anonymous International colloquy: Le concept de
vitesse en astronomie, en mathématiques,
et en physique d'Archim\`ede \`a Galilée:
Hotel Westminster--Concorde, Nice, June
8--10, 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--181
Anonymous Anniversary of the Deutsche
Mathematiker-Vereinigung: Bremen,
September 16--22, 1990 . . . . . . . . . 181--182
Anonymous Laboratoire d'histoire des sciences et
des techniques CNRS-UPR 21 (Paris,
France) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--184
Alexei Volkov Dissertation on ``Matematika v drevnem
Kitaie (3-7 vv.)'' . . . . . . . . . . . 185--187
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleKepler's
geometrical cosmology: J. V. Field.
Chicago, IL (The University of Chicago
Press). 1988. xx + 243 pp. \$37.50} . . 188--188
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleKepler's Physical
astronomy: (Studies in the History of
Mathematics and Physical Sciences 13).
Bruce Stephenson. New York, NY
(Springer-Verlag). 1987. v + 217 pp.
\$58.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--194
Anonymous The proportions of the Pastos sun:
Albis, Víctor Samuel. 1987.
\booktitleBoletín de Matemáticas \bf
21(2--3), 110--134 . . . . . . . . . . . 195--205
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 206--207
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 208--208
S. S. Demidov and
S. S. Petrova and
A. P. Yushkevich Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova on the
70th anniversary of her birth . . . . . 209--211
Daiwie Fu Why did Liu Hui fail to derive the
volume of a sphere? . . . . . . . . . . 212--238
Jean Christianidis '$ A \rho {\acute \i } \mu \eta \tau
\iota \kappa \eta $ $ \Sigma \tau o
\iota \chi \epsilon \iota \omega \sigma
\iota \varsigma $: Un traité perdu de
Diophante d'Alexandrie? . . . . . . . . 239--246
Bernd Fritzsche Einige Anmerkungen zu Sophus Lies
Krankheit. (German) [Some notes on
Sophus Lie's disease] . . . . . . . . . 247--252
Robert Ineichen Der schlechte Würfel --- Ein selten
behandeltes Problem in der Geschichte
der Stochastik. (German) [The bad die
--- a rarely treated problem in the
history of stochastics] . . . . . . . . 253--261
Anonymous First European congress of mathematics:
Paris, July 6--10, 1992 . . . . . . . . 262--263
Anonymous Tagung zur Geschichte der Mathematik.
(German) [Workshop on the history of
mathematics] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--263
Walter Purkert 30. Tagung zur Geschichte der
mathematik: Mathematisches
Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach,
6.5-12.5. 1990. (German) [30th Meeting
on the History of Mathematics:
Mathematical Research Institute in
Oberwolfach, 6--12 May, 1990] . . . . . 264--276
Herbert Breger International conference on le continu
mathématique: Cerisy-la-Salle, France,
September 11--21, 1990 . . . . . . . . . 277--277
Anonymous International symposium on structures in
mathematical theories: Escuela de
Magisterio, Campus of Gipuzkoa,
Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country,
Spain, September 25--29, 1990 . . . . . 278--279
Jean Dhombres Premi\`ere École d'été d'Histoire des
Mathématiques: Herdade da Mitra, Evora,
Portugal, 16--21 Juillet 1990 L'histoire
des mathématiques: La méthode des textes 279--281
Anonymous Journées chaos et déterminisme:
Association Henri Poincaré pour
l'Histoire et la Philosophie des
Mathématiques et de la Physique modernes,
Institut Henri Poincaré 11, rue Pierre et
Marie Curie, Paris 5\`e, France, 19--20
October 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Jean-Claude Pont and
Marco Panza La philosophie ouverte de F. Gonseth \`a
l'épreuve de la géométrie: Geneva,
Switzerland, December 14--15, 1990 . . . 282--282
Anonymous L'émergence de l'analyse harmonique
abstraite, 1930--1950: Institut Henri
Poincaré, 11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie,
75005 Paris, France, March 13, 1991 . . 283--283
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitlePopularizing
mathematical methods in the People's
Republic of China: Some personal
experiences: By Hua Loo-Keng and Wang
Yuan. Mathematical Modeling Series, Vol.
2. Boston (Birkhäuser Boston). 1989. 208
pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--288
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleHistory and
philosophy of modern mathematics: Volume
XI, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy
of Science. Edited by William Aspray and
Philip Kitcher. Minneapolis, (University
of Minnesota Press). 1988. 387 pages . . 288--291
René Taton Pierre Costabel (1912--1989) . . . . . . 292--295
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--306
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 307--308
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 309--309
Anonymous A. P. Yushkevich celebrates 85th
birthday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--311
A. I. Dale Thomas Bayes's work on infinite series 312--327
Dennis Weeks The life and mathematics of George
Campbell, F.R.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . 328--343
Colin R. Fletcher A reconstruction of the Frenicle--Fermat
correspondence of 1640 . . . . . . . . . 344--351
Anonymous Third Annual Göttingen Workshop on the
History of Modern Mathematics:
Mathematisches Institut de Universität
Göttingen, Göttingen, Federal Republic of
Germany, July 13--15, 1992 . . . . . . . 352--353
Anonymous International Congress of
Mathematicians: Kyoto, Japan, August
21--29, 1990. The Tokyo History of
Mathematics Symposium 1990 Tokyo, Japan,
August 31--September 1, 1990 . . . . . . 353--356
Fritz Nagel The Life and Work of Jacob Hermann: a
Working Conference, part 2 (Ravello,
September 28--29, 1990), and part 3
(Pisa, February 25--26, 1991) . . . . . 357--357
M. J. Petry Hegel and Newtonianism . . . . . . . . . 357--361
Christa Binder Report on the Second Austrian Symposium
on the History of Mathematics:
Mathematics-\`a la mode?: Neuhofen an
der Ybbs, Lower Austria, 22 to 28
October 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
G. Syta Voronoy memorial house . . . . . . . . . 363--363
Thomas Drucker Book Review: \booktitleZermelo's axiom
of choice: Its origins, development and
influence: By Gregory H. Moore. New
York: Springer-Verlag. 1982. xiv + 410
pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--369
Brian J. Parshall Book Review: \booktitleNathan Jacobson:
Collected mathematical papers: By Nathan
Jacobson. Boston, Basel, Berlin
(Birkhäuser). 1989. 3 Vols. xviii + 1606
pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370--372
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleA history of
non-Euclidean geometry: Evolution of the
concept of a geometric space: By B. A.
Rosenfeld. Translated by Abe Shenitzer.
With the editorial assistance of Hardy
Grant. New York (Springer-Verlag). 1988.
xi + 471 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373--374
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleA history of
algebraic and differential topology,
1900--1960: By Jean Dieudonné. Boston and
Basel (Birkhäuser). 1989. xxi + 648 pp 374--377
Branko Grünbaum and
Marjorie Senechal Book Review:
\booktitleSymmetrie--Gruppe--Dualität: By
Erhard Scholz. Basel (Birkhäuser). 1980.
406 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--380
Eberhard Knobloch Evert Marie Bruins (1909--1990) . . . . 381--389
Curtis Wilson Eric John Aiton (1920--1991) . . . . . . 390--392
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393--402
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 403--404
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 405--405
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406--406
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 18 . . 407--410
Joseph W. Dauben A message to readers of
\booktitleHistoria Mathematica . . . . . 1--3
Craig G. Fraser Isoperimetric problems in the
variational calculus of Euler and
Lagrange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--23
E. Seneta On the history of the Strong Law of
Large Numbers and Boole's inequality . . 24--39
Karl H. Hofmann Zur Geschichte des Halbgruppenbegriffs.
(German) [On the history of the concept
of semigroups] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--59
Robert Weinstock Newton's Principia and inverse-square
orbits: the flaw reexamined . . . . . . 60--70
M. R. Chowdhury W. H. Young at Aberystwyth . . . . . . . 71--75
I. Grattan-Guinness A note on The Educational Times and
Mathematical Questions . . . . . . . . . 76--78
Anonymous Development of mathematics from 1900 to
1950: Château de Bourglinster, June
29--30, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Anonymous Un colloque international: Le travail
scientifique dans les correspondances
entre savants au tournant des 17$^e$ et
18$^e$ si\`ecles: Auditorium de la
Biblioth\`eque National, Paris, 10--13
juin 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Anonymous Conference on Hermann G. Grassmann in
1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--81
A. W. F. Edwards Celebration of the centenary of the
birth of Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 1990 81--82
Anonymous Innovation et transmission dans les
mathématiques arabes (VIII$^e$--XV$^e$
si\`ecles): Institut du Monde Arabe, 1,
rue des Foss\`es--Saint-Bernard 75005
Paris, France, 25--27 octobre 1990 . . . 83--83
Anonymous Third Maghribian Symposium on the
History of Arabic Mathematics: Algiers,
December 1--3, 1990 . . . . . . . . . . 83--84
Alejandro R. Garciadiego II International Colloquium on the
History and Philosophy of Mathematics:
December 10--13, 1990 . . . . . . . . . 84--87
Anonymous American Mathematical Society Annual
Winter Meeting: San Francisco, January
16--19, 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Anonymous World directory of historians of
mathematics: Third edition in
preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Angelo Guerraggio and
Pietro Nastasi Italian mathematics of the 19th and 20th
centuries. Publication of correspondence 91--92
John Ewing Book Review: \booktitleThe history of
modern mathematics: Edited by David E.
Rowe and John McCleary. San Diego
(Academic Press). 2 vols., xvi + 453 and
xvi + 325 pp, \$39.50 each} . . . . . . 93--98
Jean P. Christianidis and
Nikos Kastanis Evangelos S. Stamatis (1898--1990) . . . 99--105
Henk J. M. Bos Hans Freudenthal (1905--1990) . . . . . 106--108
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--121
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 124--124
S. de Mora-Charles Quelques jeux de hazard selon Leibniz:
(Manuscrits inédits). (French) [Some
games of chance according to Leibniz:
unpublished manuscripts] . . . . . . . . 125--157
R. P. Burn Irrational numbers in English language
textbooks, 1890--1915: Constructions and
postulates for the completeness of the
real numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--176
Catherine Goldstein On a seventeenth century version of the
``fundamental theorem of arithmetic'' 177--187
Gregg de Young Is\.h\=aq ibn Hunayn, Hunayn ibn
Is\.h\=aq, and the third Arabic
translation of Euclid's
\booktitleElements . . . . . . . . . . . 188--199
Guo Shuchun Guo Shuchun's edition of the
\booktitleJiu Zhang Suan Shu: (Nine
chapters on the mathematical art) . . . 200--202
Anonymous International Symposium on the 100th
Anniversaries of the Births of Li Yan
and Qian Baozong: Beijing, August
21--23, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--204
Anonymous Fourth Midwest Math History Conference:
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, October
2--3, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous Third Austrian Symposion on the History
of Mathematics: Neuhofen, November
8--14, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--205
Anonymous International Conference: Contemporary
Trends in the Historiography of Science:
Korfu, May 27--31, 1991 . . . . . . . . 205--206
Luigi Pepe European mathematics during the XVth
Century: Istituto Nazionale di alta
matematica, Cortona, Italy, June 24--28,
1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--207
I. Grattan-Guinness The Babbage/Faraday Bicentenary
Conference: Cambridge University,
England, July 5--7, 1991 . . . . . . . . 207--207
Frank J. Swetz The International Conference on the
History of Mathematics and Education in
History of Mathematics: Baotou, Inner
Mongolia, The People's Republic of
China, August 9--14, 1991 . . . . . . . 208--209
Paul L. Butzer and
Dietrich Lohrmann and
Ludwig Falkenstein 4. Aachen Alcuin Symposium Science and
History in Western and Eastern
Civilization, 8th and 9th Centuries:
Aachen, Germany, September 25--28, 1991 209--210
Anonymous Fourteenth Meeting of the Study Group
``History, Philosophy and Foundations of
Mathematics'': Gosen (near Berlin),
October 14--16, 1991 . . . . . . . . . . 210--210
Anonymous Annual Meeting of the Deutsche
Mathematiker-Vereinigung Section History
of Mathematics: Bielefeld, Germany,
October 16--20, 1991 . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Anonymous Colloquio internazionale: Dalla
geometria al calcolo 1637--1704: Palazzo
Serra di Cassano, Via Monte di Dio, 14,
Naples, Italy, October 29--31, 1991 . . 211--212
Anonymous Rencontre internationale Histoire des
Mathématiques: Universidad Complutense,
Facultad de Matématicas (edificio nuevo),
Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain,
November 18--22, 1991 . . . . . . . . . 213--214
Ronald Calinger Book Review: \booktitleIntroduction to
analysis of the infinite, book I: By
Leonhard Euler; translated by John D.
Blanton. New York (Springer-Verlag).
1988. xiii + 327 pp . . . . . . . . . . 214--216
Günther Frei Book Review: \booktitleHermann Weyl
1885--1985: Edited by K.
Chandrasekharan. Berlin/Heidelberg/New
York (Springer-Verlag). 1986. vi + 109
pp. No price given . . . . . . . . . . . 217--229
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--230
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 231--231
D. H. Fowler An invitation to read Book X of Euclid's
\booktitleElements . . . . . . . . . . . 233--264
José Chabás and
Bernard R. Goldstein Nicholaus de Heybech and his table for
finding true syzygy . . . . . . . . . . 265--289
Anonymous Luncheon and symposium: 20 years of
\booktitleHistoria Mathematica . . . . . 290--291
Anonymous Second meeting of the Fachsektion
Geschichte der Mathematik der Deutschen
Mathematiker-Vereinigung . . . . . . . . 291--291
Anonymous Renaissance mathematics . . . . . . . . 291--292
Anonymous Les jésuites et les sciences dans
l'Europe de la Renaissance (XVIe--XVIIe
s.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--292
Anonymous Zweite Novembertagung zur Geschichte der
modernen Mathematik. (German) [Second
November meeting on the history of
modern mathematics] . . . . . . . . . . 292--293
Anonymous Colloque pour le quatri\`eme centenaire
de Girard Desargues (1591--1661) . . . . 293--294
Anonymous Research in progress . . . . . . . . . . 294--295
Laura Nurzia The research group on history of
mathematics at the university of Rome
``La Sapienza'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 296--302
Anonymous The Oxford dictionary of scientific
quotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--302
Karen Hunger Parshall Book Review: \booktitleConvolutions in
French mathematics, 1800--1840: By Ivor
Grattan-Guinness. Science Networks:
Historical Studies, Vol. 2. Basel,
Boston, Berlin (Birkhäuser). 1990. 3
Vols. 1602 pp. DM 398 . . . . . . . . . 303--310
Karen Hunger Parshall Book Review: \booktitleEthnomathematics:
a multicultural view of mathematical
ideas: By Marcia Ascher. Pacific Grove,
CA (Brooks/Cole Publishing Co.). 1991.
xii + 203 pp. including Index . . . . . 310--310
Victor J. Katz Book Review: \booktitleThe crest of the
peacock: Non-European roots of
mathematics: By George Gheverghese
Joseph. London (I. B. Tauris & Co., Ltd)
and New York (St. Martin's Press). 1991.
xvi + 368 pp. including Bibliography and
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--315
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleNorbert Wiener:
1894--1964: By P. R. Masani, Basel,
Boston, Berlin (Birkhäuser). 1990. 416 pp 316--319
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLa France
mathématique. La société mathématique de
France (1870--1914): By H. Gispert, with
essays by R. Bkouche, C. Gilain, C.
Houzel, J.-P. Kahane, and M. Zerner.
Cahiers d'Histoire et de Philosophie des
Sciences, new series, No. 34. Paris
(Belin). 1991. 425 pp. 95Ffr . . . . . . 319--322
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe invisible
hand: Economic equilibrium in the
history of science: By Bruna Ingrao and
Giorgio Israel. Trans. Ian McGilvray.
Cambridge, MA (The MIT Press). 1990.
xiii + 491 pp. \$49.95} . . . . . . . . 322--323
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDie
Streitschriften von Jacob und Johann
Bernoulli, variationsrechnung:
Bearbeitet und kommentiert von Herman H.
Goldstine, mit historischen Anmerkungen
von Patricia Radelet-de Grave. Basel,
Boston, Berlin (Birkhäuser). 1991. xxv +
604 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--324
Chirstoph J. Scriba Clas-Olof Selenius (1922--1991) . . . . 325--327
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by David E. Zitarelli 328--337
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 338--339
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 340--340
Detlef Laugwitz ``Das letzte Ziel ist immer die
Darstellung einer Funktion'': Grundlagen
der analysis bei Weierstraß 1886,
historische Wurzeln und Parallelen.
(German) [``The ultimate goal is always
the representation of a Function'':
Fundamentals of analysis by Weierstraß,
1886, historical roots and parallels] 341--355
J. J. Tattersall Nicholas Saunderson: the blind Lucasian
professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--370
Dhruv Raina Mathematical foundations of a cultural
project or Ramchandra's treatise
``through the unsentimentalised light of
mathematics'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371--384
Steven H. Schot Eighty years of Sommerfeld's radiation
condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--401
Herman Erlichson Newton's solution to the equiangular
spiral problem and a new solution using
only the equiangular property . . . . . 402--413
A. I. Dale On the authorship of ``A Calculation of
the Credibility of Human Testimony'' . . 414--417
David H. Fowler Dýnamis, mithartum, and square . . . . . 418--419
Anonymous Colloque international: Les Enfants du
Si\`ecle: Sciences et savants dans la
France de l'époque romantique
(1815--1830) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420--421
Anonymous Fourth Annual Göttingen Workshop on the
History of Modern Mathematics:
Mathematisches Institut der
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, July
12--14, 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421--421
Anonymous Third Annual Göttingen Workshop on the
History of Modern Mathematics: July
13--15, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422--423
Anonymous Ancient mathematics in Islamic and
Occidental cultures: Tradition,
transmission, transformation University
of Oklahoma, March 6--7, 1992 . . . . . 423--423
Anonymous Mythes et Réalités historiques de l'Europe
mathématique: Paris, April 3--6, 1992 . . 424--425
Anonymous Mathematics and music: Oxford, May 2--3,
1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--425
Anonymous 30th Oberwolfach Meeting, Geschichte der
Mathematik, May 10--16, 1992:
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut
Oberwolfach, Lorenzenhof, 7620
Oberwolfach-Walke, Germany . . . . . . . 426--427
Anonymous $ \rho $\`eme colloque inter-I.R.E.M.
Epistémologie et Histoire des
Mathématiques: Histoire d'Infinis Brest,
May 22--23, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--427
Anonymous International colloquy: Le travail
scientifique dans les correspondances
entre savants au tournant des 17e et 18e
si\`ecles Auditorium de la
Biblioth\`eque nationale, 2 rue
Vivienne, 75002 Paris, France, June
10--13, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--429
Anonymous Colloque: Le développement des
mathématiques entre 1900 et 1950: Château
de Bourglinster, Luxembourg, June
29--30, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--429
Anonymous Adam Ries colloquy: Adam Ries ---
Humanist, Rechenmeister, Bergbeamter,
Annaberg-Buchhoz, July 18, 1992 . . . . 429--430
Anonymous International Symposium on Early Greek
Mathematics: University of Athens,
Athens, Greece, August 17--21, 1992 . . 430--430
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe taming of
chance: Ian Hacking. Cambridge/New York
(Cambridge University Press). 1990. xiii
+ 264 pp. \$60.00} . . . . . . . . . . . 431--435
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMathematische
schriften: 7th Ser., Vol. 1. By G. W.
Leibniz; edited by Eberhard Knobloch and
Walter S. Contro. Berlin
(Akademie-Verlag). 1990. 954 + xxxix pp 435--437
Boris A. Rosenfeld A\.hmad Salim Sa'idan (1914--1991) . . . 438--439
Anonymous Bibliography of publications of A\.hmad
Salim Sa'idan (1914--1991) on the
history of mathematics and astronomy in
Islamic civilization, and list of
medieval Arabic texts published by him 439--443
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by David E. Zitarelli 444--456
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 457--458
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 459--459
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--460
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 19 . . 461--464
Joseph W. Dauben A 20th Anniversary Message from the
International Commission on the History
of Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Günther Frei Bartel Leendert van der Waerden: Zum 90.
Geburtstag. (German) [Bartel Leendert
van der Waerden's 90th Birthday] . . . . 5--11
Herbert Pieper On Euler's contributions to the
four-squares theorem . . . . . . . . . . 12--18
Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen The Early History of the Moment Problem 19--44
Gert Schubring Bernard Bolzano --- Not as unknown to
his contemporaries as is commonly
believed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--53
Louise Ahrndt Golland and
Ronald William Golland Euler's troublesome series: an early
example of the use of trigonometric
series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--67
Julia Nicholson The development and understanding of the
concept of quotient group . . . . . . . 68--88
William C. Waterhouse Harmonic means and Diophantus I.39 . . . 89--91
Frederic F. Burchsted New Archives of American Mathematics
Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--94
Anonymous Mathematics in Iberia in the Golden Age:
31 March--3 April 1993 . . . . . . . . . 95--95
Anonymous European Mathematics 1848--1939:
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,
September 11--13, 1992 . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Anonymous Mathematik am Beginn der Neuzeit
International Colloquy: Sächsische
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig,
Germany, October 15, 1992 . . . . . . . 96--96
Anonymous Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung:
Annual Meeting: Berlin, September
14--18, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
Guo Shirong The Second International Symposium on
the History of Mathematics and
Mathematical Education in the Regions
Using Chinese Characters . . . . . . . . 97--98
Jens Hòyrup Reviewed by Jens Hòyrup . . . . . . . . . 99--103
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--116
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 119--119
Eberhard Knobloch For Matthias Schramm on his sixty-fifth
birthday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--125
Reinhard Bölling Zum ersten Mal: Blick in einen Brief
Kowalewskajas an Weierstraß. (German)
[For the first time: A view of a letter
of Kowalewskaja to Weierstrass] . . . . 126--150
Francine F. Abeles Charles L. Dodgson's geometric approach
to arctangent relations for Pi . . . . . 151--159
Jean-Claude Martzloff Eléments de réflexion sur les réactions
chinoises \`a la géométrie euclidienne \`a
la fin du XVlle si\`ecle --- Le
\booktitleJihe lunyue \`a de
\booktitleDu Zhigeng \{Du Zhigeng \{b\}
\{b\} vu principalement {\`a} partir de
la préface de l'auteur et deux notices
bibliographiques rédigées par des lettres
illustrés . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--179
Wilbur R. Knorr Arithmêtikê stoicheiôsis: On Diophantus and
Hero of Alexandria . . . . . . . . . . . 180--192
Wilbur R. Knorr On an alleged error in Archimedes'
\booktitleConoids, Prop. 1 . . . . . . . 193--197
Anonymous Fourth international colloquium on the
philosophy and history of mathematics.
First Colombian colloquium on the
history, philosophy and pedagogy of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--198
Anonymous International congress Henri Poincaré . . 199--199
Anonymous Premi\`ere Université d'Eté Européenne:
Histoire des mathématiques . . . . . . . 199--199
Anonymous Le quatri\`eme colloque maghrébin
international sur l'histoire des
mathématiques arabes . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Anonymous Third Austrian Symposium on the History
of Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201
Klaus Volkert Colloquium Heinrich Weber: Heidelberg,
May 16, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--202
Anonymous Iberia in the Golden Age: Mathematical
sciences and their uses, 1500--1700 . . 202--203
Anonymous GEHIMAB: a new association for history
of mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204--204
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleJoseph Lionville
1809--1882. Master of Pure and Applied
Mathematics: Jesper Lützen. New
York/Berlin/Heidelberg/London/Paris/Tokyo/Hong Kong (Springer-Verlag). 1990. xix + 884 pp. \$98.00} 205--210
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe Space of
Mathematics. Philosophical,
Epistemological, and Historical
Explorations: Edited by Javier
Echeverria, Andoni Ibarra, and Thomas
Mormann. Berlin, New York (de Gruyter).
1992. xvi + 422 pp. With an index of
names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--215
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe Mathematical
Philosophy of Bertrand Russell: Origins
and Development: By Francisco
Rodriguez-Consuegra. Boston, Basel,
Berlin (Birkhäuser). 1991. xvi + 236 pp. 216--220
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleBefore Writing.
Vol. 1. From Counting to Cuneiform: By
Denise Schmandt-Besserat. Austin, TX
(University of Texas Press). 1992. xviii
+ 269 pp. 175 photos, 43 line drawings,
6 tables, 16 charts. \$60.00} . . . . . 220--222
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--235
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 236--237
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 238--238
G. P. Matvievskaya History of medieval Islamic mathematics:
Research in Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . 239--246
Oscar B. Sheynin Chuprov, Slutsky, and Chetverikov: Some
comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--254
Benno Artmann and
Lothar Schäfer On Plato's ``fairest triangles''
(Timaeus 54a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--264
Hans Niels Jahnke Algebraic analysis in Germany,
1780--1840: Some Mathematical and
Philosophical Issues . . . . . . . . . . 265--284
Elena Anne Marchisotto Mario Pieri and his contributions to
geometry and foundations of mathematics 285--303
Peter Schreiber A note on the cattle problem of
Archimedes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--306
Klaus Volkert On Helmholtz' Paper ``\booktitleÜber die
thatsächlichen Grundlagen der Geometrie'' 307--309
R. C. Gupta Indian doctoral theses in the field of
history of mathematics . . . . . . . . . 310--314
Ana Millán International symposium mathematical
journals. Centenary of El Progreso
Matematico (1891--1991) Zaragoza, Spain,
September 19--21, 1991 . . . . . . . . . 315--317
Anonymous Christoph Clavius e l'attivitá
scientifica dei jesuiti nell' etá di
Galileo. International Conference, April
28--30, 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--317
Clóvis Pereira Da Silva The research group on history of
mathematics at the Federal University of
Paraná . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318--319
David E. Rowe Book Review: \booktitleRevolutions in
mathematics: Edited by Donald Gillies.
Oxford (Clarendon Press). 1992. 353 pp.
\pounds 55 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--323
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--339
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 340--341
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 342--342
José Ferreirós On the relations between Georg Cantor
and Richard Dedekind . . . . . . . . . . 343--363
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Hilda Geiringer-von Mises, Charlier
series, ideology, and the human side of
the emancipation of applied mathematics
at the University of Berlin during the
1920s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364--381
Erwin Neuenschwander Der Nachlass von Erich Bessel-Hagen im
archiv der Universität Bonn. (German)
[The legacy of Erich Bessel-Hagen in the
archive of the University of Bonn] . . . 382--414
Luis Manuel Ribeiro Saraiva On the first history of Portuguese
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--427
Jan Von Plato Oresme's proof of the density of
rotations of a circle through an
irrational angle . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--433
Anonymous 14th summer school of Czech historians
of mathematics: Manetín--BRDO, Czechia,
May 31--June 4, 1993 . . . . . . . . . . 434--434
Anonymous International congress for the
advancement of science and technology in
the Islamic World: Teheran University,
Teheran, Iran, May 17--19, 1993 . . . . 435--435
Anonymous Kurt Gödel's collected works . . . . . . 436--436
Joseph W. Dauben Book Review: \booktitleHistoire des
mathématiques chinoises: Jean-Claude
Martzloff. Paris (Masson). 1988. xx +
375 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--446
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--459
Anonymous Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460--463
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 464--464
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 465--465
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--466
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 20 . . 467--471
Joseph W. Dauben A message to readers of
\booktitleHistoria Mathematica from the
Past Chairman of the International
Commission on History of Mathematics . . 1--2
Eberhard H. Knobloch A Message from the International
Commission on the History of Mathematics 3--3
David E. Rowe and
Karen Hunger Parshall Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--7
Menso Folkerts Second Kenneth O. May Prize awarded in
Zaragoza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
P. Nastasi and
A. Scimone Pietro Mengoli and the six-square
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--27
Robert Ineichen Der ``Vierfeldertest'' von Carl
Liebermeister (Bemerkungen zur
Entwicklung der medizinischen Statistik
im 19. Jahrhundert). (German) [The
``Four-Fields Test'' of Carl
Liebermeister (Comments on the
development of medical statistics in the
19th Century)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--38
Hans Fischer Dirichlet's contributions to
mathematical probability theory . . . . 39--63
Detlef Laugwitz and
Erwin Neuenschwander Riemann and the Cauchy--Hadamard formula
for the convergence of power series . . 64--70
Anonymous Bibliography of publications by B. L.
van der Waerden since 1983 on ancient
and medieval science . . . . . . . . . . 71--72
Anonymous Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--73
Annette Vogt Symposium on history of mathematics and
mathematics teaching: BRDO/Manetin,
Czechia, April 2--4, 1993 . . . . . . . 74--74
Sabine Koelblen Journée sur la théorie des proportions:
Paris, Centre Koyré, May 22, 1993 . . . . 74--75
Anonymous 2nd Gauss Symposium . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Anonymous George Green: a Bicentennial Celebration 76--76
Anonymous XIXth International Congress of History
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--84
Anonymous Scientific Sections . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Anonymous Fourth Annual Göttingen Workshop on the
History of Modern Mathematics . . . . . 85--87
Catherine Goldstein and
Paul R. Wolfson Book Review: Amy Dahan Dalmedico,
Editor, \booktitleMathématisations.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy et l'école française
(1993) 460 Argenteuil (Editions du
Choix) and Paris (Albert Blanchard), 260
Ftr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--93
Catherine Goldstein and
Paul R. Wolfson Book Review: \booktitleMathématisations.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy et l'école
française, Amy Dahan Dalmedico (Ed.)
(1993), 460 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--93
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleA. N. Kolmogorov,
A. P. Yushkevich, Editors, Mathematics
of the 19th century: Mathematical logic,
algebra, number theory, probability
Theory (1992) Birkhäuser,Boston and Basel
308 \$149.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleMathematics of
the 19th century: Mathematical logic,
algebra, number theory, probability
theory, A. N. Kolmogorov, A. P.
Yushkevich (Eds.). Birkhäuser, Boston and
Basel (1992), 308 . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Robin E. Rider Book Review: \booktitleOperations
Analysis in the U.S. Army Eighth Air
Force in World War II, 4, Charles W.
McArthur, in: History of Mathematics
(1990), xxiv + 349 . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--116
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 119--119
Ad Meskens Wine gauging in late 16th- and early
17th-Century Antwerp . . . . . . . . . . 121--147
Herman Erlichson The visualization of quadratures in the
mystery of corollary 3 to proposition 41
of Newton's Principia . . . . . . . . . 148--161
Ahmet G. Agargün and
Colin R. Fletcher Al-Farisi and the Fundamental Theorem of
Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--173
Oscar Sheynin Ivory's treatment of pendulum
observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--184
Karl-Heinz Schlote and
Uwe Dathe Die Anfänge von Gottlob Freges
wissenschaftlicher Laufbahn. (German)
[The beginnings of Gottlob Frege's
scientific career] . . . . . . . . . . . 185--195
Curtis Wilson Newton on the equiangular spiral: an
addendum to Erlichson's account . . . . 196--203
I. Grattan-Guinness Contributing to the educational times:
Letters to W. J. C. Miller . . . . . . . 204--205
Anonymous Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--206
Anonymous 4. Novembertagung zur Geschichte der
modernen Mathematik: Universität Mainz,
Deutschland, 31. Oktober-2. November
1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Guo Shirong The symposium on history of science on
the occasion of the founding of the
Institute for the History of Science at
Inner Mongolia Normal University . . . . 207--208
Anonymous Beijing seminar on the history of
mathematics: Institute of Mathematics,
Academia Sinica, October 11--15, 1993 208--208
Michael Scanlan Book Review: \booktitlePerspectives on
the History of Mathematical Logic:
Edited by Thomas Drucker. Boston, Basel,
Berlin (Birkhauser). 1991. xxiii + 195
pp. With an index of names . . . . . . . 209--214
Judith V. Grabiner Book Review: \booktitleAugustin-Louis
Cauchy: a Biography: By Bruno Belhoste.
Translated by Frank Ragland. New York,
Berlin, Heidelberg, London, Paris,
Tokyo, Hong Kong, Barcelona
(Springer-Verlag). 1991. \$79.00}. . . . 215--220
Karine Chemla Book Review: \booktitleLes Méthodes
rapides pour la trigonométrie et le
rapport précis du cercle (1774).
Tradition chinoise et apport occidental
en mathématiques: By Catherine Jami, with
a foreword by Jacques Gernet. Memoires
de l'Institut des Hautes Études
Chinoises, Vol. XXXII. Paris (Collége de
France, Institut des Hautes Études
Chinoises). 1990. 230 pp. . . . . . . . 220--224
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--240
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 241--242
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 243--243
David E. Rowe Dirk Jan Struik and his contributions to
the history of mathematics . . . . . . . 245--273
Helen May Walther Reminiscences of a former M.I.T. student 274--275
Dirk J. Struik On my trip to Europe, August 1--9, 1989 276--279
Gerard Alberts On connecting socialism and mathematics:
Dirk Struik, Jan Burgers, and Jan
Tinbergen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--305
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze ``Scientific control'' in mathematical
reviewing and German--U.S.--American
relations between the two World Wars . . 306--329
Lorraine Daston How probabilities came to be objective
and subjective . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--344
Paulus Gerdes On mathematics in the history of
Sub-Saharan Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 345--376
John McCleary On Jacobi's remarkable curve theorem . . 377--385
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--396
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 397--398
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 399--399
Jeffrey Shallit Origins of the analysis of the Euclidean
algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401--419
A. Belcastro and
G. Fenaroli and
A. C. Garibaldi Considerazioni di Giovanni Rizzetti sul
calcolo delle probabilit\`a e sul
teorema di Jakob Bernoulli . . . . . . . 420--452
E. Seneta Carl Liebermeister's hypergeometric
tails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--462
James Evans Book Review: \booktitleL'Oeuvre de
Torricelli: Science galiléenne et
nouvelle géométrie. Publications de la
Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines
de Nice, François De Gandt (Ed.). Les
Belles Lettres, Paris (1987), 247 . . . 463--464
Ken Saito Book Review: \booktitleEuclides
reformatus: La teoria delle proporzioni
nella scuola galileiana, Enrico Giusti.
Bollati Boringhieri, Turin (1993), 348 465--468
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469--482
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 483--484
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 485--485
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486--486
Anonymous Index of authors of publications
reviewed and abstracted in volume 21 . . 487--491
Jan P. Hogendijk Al-Mu'taman ibn Hud, 11th Century King
of Saragossa and brilliant mathematician 1--18
Ronald Gowing Halley, Cotes, and the nautical meridian 19--32
José Ferreirós ``What fermented in me for years'':
Cantor's discovery of transfinite
numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--42
Margherita Benzi Dubbiezze e controversie: Il dibattito
su logica e probabilitá in Italia nei
primi anni del Novecento. (Italian)
[Doubts and controversies: the debate on
logic and probability in Italy in the
early years of the twentieth century] 43--63
Gulnava Yussupova Zwei mittelalterliche arabische Ausgaben
der ``\booktitleSphaerica'' des Menelaos
von Alexandria. (German) [Two medieval
Arabic editions of the
``\booktitleSphaerica'' of Menelaus of
Alexandria] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--66
Jean-Claude Martzloff Book Review: \booktitleFleeting
footsteps: Tracing the conception of
arithmetic and algebra in ancient China:
By Lam Lay Yong and Ang Tian Se.
Singapore (World Scientific). 1992. xvi
+ 199 pp. 15 \pounds . . . . . . . . . . 67--73
Roger Cooke Book Review: \booktitleBriefwechsel
zwischen Karl Weierstraß and Sofja
Kowalewskaja: Edited with an
introduction and commentary by Reinhard
Bölling. Berlin (Akademie-Verlag). 1993.
504 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--77
Albert C. Lewis Book Review: \booktitleThe search for E.
T. Bell, also known as John Taine: By
Constance Reid. Washington, D.C. (The
Mathematical Association of America).
1993. x + 372 pp. \$35.00} . . . . . . . 78--80
Maurice Caveing Book Review: \booktitleMathématiques
Égyptiennes. Recherches sur les
connaissances mathématiques de l'Égypte
pharaonique: By Sylvia Couchoud. Paris:
Éditions Le Léopard d'Or. 1993. 208 pp.
150 FF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--83
Jens Hòyrup Book Review: \booktitlePeri Ton
Mathematon (Apeiron, Vol. XXIX, No. 4):
Edited by Ian Mueller. Edmonton
(Academic Printing and Publishing).
1991. xii + 251 pages. Index by name and
subject. Index of passages cited . . . . 84--87
Evgeny A. Zaitsev Fedor Andreevich Medvedev (1923--1993) 88--92
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--109
Anonymous Notes to contributors . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 112--112
Ken Saito Doubling the cube: a new interpretation
of its significance for early Greek
geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--137
Gregg De Young Euclidean geometry in the mathematical
tradition of Islamic India . . . . . . . 138--153
Jaak Peetre Outline of a scientific biography of
Ernst Meissel (1826--1895) . . . . . . . 154--178
Daniel S. Alexander Gaston Darboux and the history of
complex dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--185
William C. Waterhouse On the Cattle Problem of Archimedes . . 186--187
A. A. Antropov On Euler's partition of forms into
genera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188--193
Anonymous Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--195
Anonymous \booktitleLa Sph\`ere, instrument au
service de la découverte du monde:
D'Autolycos de Pitane \`a Jean de
Sacrobosco: Par Germaine Aujac.
Collection Varia. Caen (Paradigme).
1993. 380 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--202
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLakatos'
Philosophy of Mathematics: a Historical
Approach: By Tenn Koetsier. Studies in
the History and Philosophy of
Mathematics. Volume 3. Amsterdam
(North-Holland, Elsevier). 1991. 312
pages, including bibliography and index 203--206
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleBerkeley's
Philosophy of Mathematics: By Douglas M.
Jesseph. Chicago and London (The
University of Chicago Press). 1993. xii
+ 322 pp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--208
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleMath Worlds:
Philosophical and Social Studies of
Mathematics and Mathematics Education:
Edited by Sal Restivo, Jean Paul Van
Bendegem, and Roland Fischer. Albany
(State University of New York Press).
1993. 278 pp. Name and subject indexes 208--209
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--220
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 221--222
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 223--223
Anonymous Adolph Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich
(1906--1993) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Karen V. H. Parshall Note from the managing editor . . . . . 225--225
Jean-Luc Dorier A general outline of the genesis of
vector space theory . . . . . . . . . . 227--261
Gregory H. Moore The axiomatization of linear algebra:
1875--1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--303
Miriam Franchella L. E. J. Brouwer: Toward Intuitionistic
Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--322
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleDie Entwicklung
des Tensorkalküls. Vom absoluten
Differentialkalkül zur
Relativitätstheorie: By Karin Reich.
Basel/Boston/Berlin (Birkhäuser Verlag).
1994. 331 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--326
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleLa mesure de
l'état: By Eric Brian. Paris (Albin
Michel). 1994. 464 pp. . . . . . . . . . 327--330
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--341
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 342--342
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 343--343
Anonymous Guy Hirsch (1915--1993) . . . . . . . . 345--346
Marcia Ascher Models and Maps from the Marshall
Islands: a Case in Ethnomathematics . . 347--370
Moritz Epple Branch Points of Algebraic Functions and
the Beginnings of Modern Knot Theory . . 371--401
Adrian C. Rice and
Robin J. Wilson and
J. Helen Garner From Student Club to National Society:
the Founding of the London Mathematical
Society in 1865 . . . . . . . . . . . . 402--421
Peter Schreiber A Supplement to J. Shallit's Paper
``Book Review: \booktitleOrigins of the
Analysis of the Euclidean Algorithm'' 422--424
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleAmphora.
Festschrift fur Hans Wussing zu seinem
65. Geburtstag/Festschrift for Hans
Wussing on the Occasion of His 65th
Birthday: Edited by S. S. Demidov, M.
Folkerts, D. E. Rowe, and C. J. Scriba.
Basel/Boston/Berlin (Birkhäauser Verlag).
1992. xi + 782 pp. U.S. \$140.00} . . . 425--441
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleSofia
Kowalewskaja. Ein Leben für Mathematik
and Emanzipation: By Wilderich Tuschmann
and Peter Hawig. Basel/Boston/Berlin
(Birkhduser). 1993. 185 pp. with 22
Figs. 58 DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--446
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleOn the Shoulders
of Merchants: Exchange and the
Mathematical Conception of Nature in
Early Modern Europe: By Richard W.
Hadden. Albany, NY (State Univ. of New
York Press). 1994. xviii + 191 pp. with
notes, bibliography, and index . . . . . 446--448
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449--469
Anonymous World Directory of Historians of
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470--470
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 471--472
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 473--473
Anonymous Index of Authors of Articles and Reviews
in Volume 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474--474
Anonymous Index of Authors of Publications
Reviewed and Abstracted in Volume 22 . . 475--480
Karen Hunger Parshall and
Jan P. Hogenduk The History of Mathematics, the History
of Science, Mathematics, and
\booktitleHistoria Mathematica . . . . . 1--5
Patti W. Hunter Drawing the Boundaries: Mathematical
Statistics in 20th-Century America . . . 7--30
Y. Tzvi Langermann Medieval Hebrew Texts on the Quadrature
of the Lune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--53
Oscar Sheynin Mendeleev and the Mathematical Treatment
of Observations in Natural Science . . . 54--67
Tadeusz Batóg and
Roman Murawski Stanis\law Piatkiewicz and the
Beginnings of Mathematical Logic in
Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--73
T. W. Gamelin Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Complex Dynamics, from Schröder to Fatou
and Julia. By Daniel S. Alexander.
Wiesbaden (Vieweg) . . . . . . . . . . . 74--84
Ian Mueller Book Review: \booktitleEuclide
d'Alexandrie, \booktitleLes Éléments.
Traduction et commentaires par Bernard
Vitrac. Paris (Presses universitaires de
France). vol. I, livres I--IV avec une
introduction générale par Maurice Caveing.
1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
Peter Schreiber Book Review: \booktitleLeonardo Pisani
Liber abbaci oder Lesevergnügen eines
Mathematikers. By Heinz Lüneburg.
Mannheim/Leipzig/Wien/Zürich (BI
Wissenschaftsverlag) . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Tom Archibald Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Mathematics: an Introduction. By Victor
J. Katz. New York (Harper Collins) . . . 89--92
Thomas Hawkins Book Review: \booktitleÉlie Cartan
(1869--1951). By M. A. Akivis and B. A.
Rosenfeld. Translated from a Russian
manuscript by V. V. Goldberg. Providence
(American Mathematical Society) . . . . 92--95
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--113
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 114--115
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 116--116
Christoph J. Scriba A Birthday Tribute to R. C. Gupta . . . 117--120
Ronald Calinger Leonhard Euler: the First St. Petersburg
Years (1727--1741) . . . . . . . . . . . 121--166
Niccol\`o Guicciardini An Episode in the History of Dynamics:
Jakob Hermann's Proof (1716--1717) of
Proposition 1, Book 1, of Newton's
Principia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--181
Bent Birkeland Ludvig Sylow's Lectures on Algebraic
Equations and Substitutions, Christiania
(Oslo), 1862: an Introduction and a
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--199
Roger Cooke Book Review: \booktitleThe Golden Years
of Moscow Mathematics. Edited by Smilka
Zdravkovska and Peter Duren. London and
Providence (London Mathematical Society
and American Mathematical Society). 1993 200--203
Thomas Hochkirchen Book Review: \booktitleCreating Modern
Probability. Its Mathematics, Physics
and Philosophy in Historical
Perspective. By Jan von Plato.
Cambridge/New York/Melbourne (Cambridge
Univ. Press). 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . 203--207
Christiane Vilain Book Review: \booktitleLa réforme de la
dynamique, De corporum concursu (1678)
et autres textes inédits. By G. W.
Leibniz. Edition, introduction, French
translations and commentaries by Michel
Fichant. Paris (Librairie philosophique
J. Vrin). 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--210
Gérard Simon Book Review: \booktitleGéométrie et
dioptrique au X$^e$ si\`ecle. Ibn Sahl,
al--Qûh\^\i et Ibn al-Haytham. By Roshdi
Rashed. Paris (Les Belles Lettres). 1993 210--216
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--235
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 236--237
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 238--238
Natália Bebiano Mathematical Horizons: Light and
Darkness in Portugal in the 18th Century 239--245
Kim Plofker An Example of the Secant Method of
Iterative Approximation in a
Fifteenth-Century Sanskrit Text . . . . 246--256
Djamil A\"\issani Le mathématicien Eug\`ene Dewulf
(1831--1896) et les manuscrits médiévaux
du Maghreb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--268
David L. Roberts Albert Harry Wheeler (1873--1950): a
Case Study in the Stratification of
American Mathematical Activity . . . . . 269--287
Roland Wagner-Döbler and
Jan Berg Nineteenth-Century Mathematics in the
Mirror of Its Literature: a Quantitative
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--318
Hél\`ene Gispert Book Review: \booktitleHistoire de
fractions, fractions d'histoire.
Coordinated by Paul Benoit, Karine
Chemla, and Jim Ritter. Science Networks
10. Basel (Birkhäuser) . . . . . . . . . 319--323
Leo Corry Book Review: \booktitleoCorps et
mod\`eles-Essai sur l'histoire de
l'alg\`ebre réelle. By Hourya Sinaceur.
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin 323--327
Andrea Eberhard Book Review: \booktitleLes mathématiques
japonaises \`a l'époque d'Edo
(1600--1868): Une étude des travaux de
Seki Takakazu (?--1708) et de Takebe
Katahiro (1664--1793) By Annick
Horiuchi. Paris (Librairie Philosophique
J. Vrin) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--329
Régis Morelon Book Review: \booktitleIslamic Astronomy
and Medieval Spain. By Julio Samsó.
Collected Studies Series CS 428.
Aldershot, VT (Variorum) . . . . . . . . 330--332
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--348
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 349--350
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 351--351
Karen Hunge Parshall and
Jan P. Hogendijk \booktitleHistoria Mathematica and the
World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Numbers, Magnitudes, Ratios, and
Proportions in Euclid's
\booktitleElements: How Did He Handle
Them? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355--375
Adrian Rice Mathematics in the Metropolis: a Survey
of Victorian London . . . . . . . . . . 376--417
Konstantina Zormbala Gauss and the Definition of the Plane
Concept in Euclidean Elementary Geometry 418--436
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleDevelopment of
Mathematics, 1900--1950. Edited by
Jean-Paul Pier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437--440
Michael Toepell Book Review: \booktitleGeschichte der
Algebra. Eine Einführung. Edited by
Erhard Scholz. Unter Mitarbeit von
Kirsti Andersen et al. Lehrbücher und
Monographien zur Didaktik der Mathematik
Bd. 16. Wien/Zürich (B.I.-Wissenschafts
Verlag Mannheim). 1990 . . . . . . . . . 441--445
Bernard Vitrac Book Review: \booktitleAnaritus'
Commentary on Euclid. The Latin
Translation, I--IV. Edited by P. M. J.
E. Tummers. Artistarium, Supplementa, IX 445--446
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--464
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 465--466
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 467--467
Anonymous Index of Authors of Articles and Reviews
in Volume 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468--468
Anonymous Index of Authors of Publications
Reviewed and Abstracted in Volume 23 . . 469--473
Catherine Jami In Memoriam: Joseph Needham (December 9,
1900--March 24, 1995) . . . . . . . . . 1--5
Della Dumbaugh Fenster Role Modeling in Mathematics: the Case
of Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874--1954) 7--24
Rossana Tazzioli The Role of Differential Parameters in
Beltrami's Work . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--45
Ülo Lumiste Martin Bartels as Researcher: His
Contribution to Analytical Methods in
Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--65
Loren Butler Feffer Mathematical Physics and the Planning of
American Mathematics: Ideology and
Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--85
Luis M. R. Saraiva Historiography of Mathematics in the
Works of Rodolfo Guimarães . . . . . . . 86--97
Garrett Birkhoff Book Review: \booktitleJohn von Neumann.
By Norman Macrae. New York (Random
House). 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--100
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Book Review: \booktitleDas Fotoalbum für
Weierstraß. A Photo Album for
Weierstrass. Edited by Reinhard Bölling.
Braunschweig and Wiesbaden (Friedrich
Vieweg & Sohn). 1994 . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--120
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 121--122
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 123--123
Yvonne Dold-Samplonius In Memoriam: Bartel Leendert van der
Waerden (1903--1996) . . . . . . . . . . 125--130
Lis Brack-Bernsen In Memoriam: Olaf Schmidt (1913--1996) 131--134
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze The Emancipation of Mathematical
Research Publishing in the United States
from German Dominance (1878--1945) . . . 135--166
Herman Erlichson Hooke's September 1685 Ellipse Vertices
Construction and Newton's Instantaneous
Impulse Construction . . . . . . . . . . 167--184
Ahmed Djebbar La rédaction de \booktitleL'istikmal
d'al-Mu'taman (XI$^e$ s.) par Ibn
Sartaq, un mathématicien des
XIII$^e$--XIV$^e$ si\`ecles . . . . . . 185--192
Mohammad Bagheri Mathematical Problems of the Famous
Iranian Poet N\=a\dser-e Khosrow . . . . 193--196
Mo De and
Jiang Zhenhua The Recent Chinese and Mongolian
Translations of Euclid's
\booktitleElements . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199
Jean-Claude Martzloff Note on the Recent Chinese and Mongolian
Translations of Euclid's
\booktitleElements . . . . . . . . . . . 200--202
Antonella Romano Book Review: \booktitleTra scienza e
immaginazione: Le matematiche presso il
Collegio Gesuitico Napoletano
(1552--1670 ca.). By Romano Gatto.
Firenze (Olschki, collana ``Biblioteca
di Nuncius''). 1994, 392 pp. . . . . . . 203--205
Christiane Vilain Book Review: \booktitleLa dynamique de
Leibniz. By François Duchesneau.
Collection Mathesis. Paris (Vrin). 1994.
367 pp. 195 FF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--207
Antoni Malet Book Review: \booktitleLa méthode de
Fermat: Son statut et sa diffusion. By
Giovanna Cleonice Cifoletti. Cahiers
d'Histoire et de Philosophie des
Sciences, No. 33. Paris (Société Française
d'Histoire des Sciences et des
Techniques. Belin Diffusion). 1990. Pp.
243. ISSN 0221-3664. FF60 . . . . . . . 208--209
Gregory H. Moore Is Mathematical Logic a Part of
Mathematics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--212
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Numbers, Magnitudes, Ratios, and
Proportions in Euclid's
\booktitleElements: How Did He Handle
Them?: Volume 23, Number 4 (1996), pages
355--375 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--213
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--237
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 238--239
Mohammad Bagheri A Newly Found Letter of Al-K\=ash\=\i on
Scientific Life in Samarkand . . . . . . 241--256
Ma. Rosa Massa Mengoli on ``Quasi Proportions'' . . . . 257--280
Rüdiger Thiele On Some Contributions to Field Theory in
the Calculus of Variations from Beltrami
to Carathéodory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--300
Alexe\"u\i Volkov Zhao Youqin and his calculation of $ \pi
$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--331
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleMathematics of
the 19th Century; Geometry, Analytic
Function Theory. Edited by A. N.
Kolmogorov and A. P. Yushkevich, and
translated from the Russian by Roger
Cooke. Basel/Boston/Berlin (Birkhäuser).
1996. ISBN 3-7643-5048-2. x + 290 pp.,
sFr 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--334
Karen Hunger Parshall Book Review: \booktitleAlgebra e
geometria (1860--1940): Il contributo
italiano. Edited by Aldo Brigaglia, Ciro
Ciliberto, and E. Sernesi. Supplemento
ai Rendiconti del Circolo matematico di
Palermo, Ser. 2, No. 36 (1994). Palermo
(Circolo matematico di Palermo). 1994.
277 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334--339
Norman Levitt Book Review: \booktitleIn Measure,
Number, and Weight: Studies in
Mathematics and Culture. By Jens Hòyrup.
Albany (State University of New York
Press). 1994, xviii + 430 pp. \$19.95} 339--342
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--355
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 356--357
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 358--358
Karen Hunger Parshall and
Jan P. Hogendijk Changes Underway at \booktitleHistoria
Mathematica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
Svetlana S. Petrova and
Alexander D. Solov'ev The Origin of the Method of Steepest
Descent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--375
Marcia Ascher Malagasy Sikidy: a Case in
Ethnomathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--395
Takao Hayashi Aryabha t\textperiodcentereda's Rule and
Table for Sine-Differences . . . . . . . 396--406
J. Lennart Berggren Mathematics and Her Sisters in Medieval
Islam: a Selective Review of Work Done
from 1985 to 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . 407--440
Heiner Lichtenberg Zur Interpretation der Gaußschen
Osterformel und ihrer Ausnahmeregeln.
(German) [Gauss's interpretation of the
Easter formula its exclusion rules] . . 441--444
Victor J. Katz Companion Encyclopedia of the History
and Philosophy of the Mathematical
Sciences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445--452
Robin Wilson From Five Fingers to Infinity: a Journey
through the History of Mathematics. . . 452--453
Jeremy Gray Reply to ``Is Mathematical Logic a Part
of Mathematics?'' . . . . . . . . . . . 454--456
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457--477
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 478--479
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 480--480
Anonymous Index of Authors of Articles and Reviews
in Volume 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--481
Anonymous Index of Authors of Publications
Reviewed and Abstracted in Volume 24 . . 482--487
Takao Hayashi and
Takanori Kusuba Twenty-One Algebraic Normal Forms of
Citrabhanu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Jean Christianidis Une interprétation byzantine de
Diophante. (French) [A Byzantine
interpretation of Diophantus] . . . . . 22--28
Alex D. D. Craik Geometry, Analysis, and the Baptism of
Slaves: John West in Scotland and
Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--74
Boaz Tsaban and
David Garber On the Rabbinical Approximation of $ \pi
$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--84
G. R. Evans Vestigia Mathematica, Studies in
Medieval and Early Modern Mathematics in
Honour of H. L. L. Busard . . . . . . . 85--86
Ahmed Djebbar Raf` al-h$ \cdot $ij\=ab `an wuj\=uh
a`m\=al al-h$ \cdot $is\=ab li Ibn
al-Bann\=a al-Murr\=aku\vs\=\i ($
\dagger $721/1321) . . . . . . . . . . . 86--88
Michael Nauenberg On Hooke's 1685 Manuscript on Orbital
Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--93
Ivor Grattan-Guinness A Response to the Review by Victor J.
Katz (\booktitleHistoria Mathematica \bf
24 (1997), 445--452) of Ivor
Grattan-Guinness, Ed., Companion
Encyclopedia of the History and
Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences 94--94
Jeremy Gray A Response to the Review by Victor J.
Katz (\booktitleHistoria Mathematica \bf
24 (1997), 445--452) of Ivor
Grattan-Guinness, Ed., Companion
Encyclopedia of the History and
Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences 95--97
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--119
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 122--122
David Fowler Wilbur Richard Knorr (1945--1997): an
Appreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--132
Gary G. Cochell The Early History of the Cornell
Mathematics Department: a Case Study in
the Emergence of the American
Mathematical Research Community . . . . 133--153
Helmut Pulte Jacobi's Criticism of Lagrange: the
Changing Role of Mathematics in the
Foundations of Classical Mechanics . . . 154--184
Adrian C. Rice and
Robin J. Wilson From National to International Society:
the London Mathematical Society,
1867--1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--217
Max Fernández Book Review: \booktitleLa Notion de
nombre chez Dedekind, Cantor, Frege. By
Jean-Pierre Belna . . . . . . . . . . . 219--221
Snezana Lawrence Book Review: \booktitleEntre Mécanique et
Architecture --- Between Mechanics and
Architecture. Edited by Patricia
Radelet-de-Grave and Edoardo Benvenuto 221--224
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--241
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 242--242
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 243--243
Viacheslav Alekseevich Dobrovol\'skii and
Natalia Vasilevna Lokot' and
Jean-Marie Strelcyn Mikhail Nikolaevich Lagutinskii
(1871--1915): Un Mathématicien Méconnu . . 245--264
Glen Van Brummelen Mathematical Methods in the Tables of
Planetary Motion in Kushyar ibn Labban's
\booktitleJami$^c$ Z\=\ij . . . . . . . 265--280
Robert Weinstock Newton's Principia and Inverse-Square
Orbits in a Resisting Medium: a Spiral
of Twisted Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--289
Giovanni Ferraro Some Aspects of Euler's Theory of
Series: Inexplicable Functions and the
Euler--Maclaurin Summation Formula . . . 290--317
Alejandro R. Garciadiego Book Review: \booktitleEl nacimiento de
la teoría de conjuntos, 1854--1908.By José
Ferreirós Domínguez. Colección de Estudios,
n$^\circ $ 39. Madrid (Ediciones de la
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). 1991 . . 318--320
Albert C. Lewis Book Review: \booktitleThe Problem of
the Earth's Shape from Newton to
Clairaut: the Rise of Mathematical
Science in Eighteenth-Century Paris and
the Fall of ``Normal'' Science. By John
L. Greenberg. Cambridge/New York
(Cambridge University Press). 1995 . . . 320--325
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitlePsychologism: a
Case Study in the Sociology of
Philosophical Knowledge. By Martin
Kusch. London and New York (Routledge).
1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
Adrian Rice Book Review: \booktitleMessengers of
Mathematics: European Mathematical
Journals (1800--1946). Edited by Elena
Ausejo and Mariano Hormigón. Madrid
(Siglo XXI de España Editores, S. A.).
1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--331
Charles E. Ford The Influence of P. A. Florensky on N.
N. Luzin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--339
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--354
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 355--356
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 357--357
Eileen F. Donoghue In Search of Mathematical Treasures:
David Eugene Smith and George Arthur
Plimpton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--365
David Fowler and
Eleanor Robson Square Root Approximations in Old
Babylonian Mathematics: YBC 7289 in
Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--378
Giorgio Israel and
Marta Menghini The ``Essential Tension'' at Work in
Qualitative Analysis: a Case Study of
the Opposite Points of View of Poincaré
and Enriques on the Relationships
between Analysis and Geometry . . . . . 379--411
Risto Vilkko The Reception of Frege's
\booktitleBegriffsschrift . . . . . . . 412--422
Gert Schubring An Unknown Part of Weierstraß's Nachlaß
[Estate] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--430
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431--448
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 449--450
Anonymous Index of Authors of Articles and Reviews
in Volume 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451--451
Anonymous Index of Authors of Publications
Reviewed and Abstracted in Volume 25 . . 452--458
Joseph W. Dauben \booktitleHistoria Mathematica: 25
Years/Context and Content . . . . . . . 1--28
A. Thomas Fuller Horner versus Holdred: an Episode in the
History of Root Computation . . . . . . 29--51
Jeremy Gray and
Eduardo L. Ortiz On the Transmission of Riemann's Ideas
to Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--67
Elemér Kiss Notes on János Bolyai's Researches in
Number Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--76
Hél\`ene Gispert Book Review: \booktitleEug\`ene Catalan:
Géom\`etre sans patrie, républicain sans
république. By François Jongmans. . . . . 77--79
Thomas Archibald Book Review: \booktitleVa Pensiero:
Immagini della matematica nell'Italia
dell'ottocento. By Umberto Bottazzini 79--81
Tony Lévy Book Review: \booktitleGermanische
Zahlwörter: Sprach- und
kulturgeschichtliche Untersuchungen
insbesondere zur Zahl 12. By George
Schuppener . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--103
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Alexander Vucinich Mathematics and Dialectics in the Soviet
Union: the Pre-Stalin Period . . . . . . 107--124
Tony Crilly Arthur Cayley as Sadleirian Professor: a
Glimpse of Mathematics Teaching at
19th-Century Cambridge . . . . . . . . . 125--160
Enrico Giusti Book Review: \booktitleLes mathématiques
infinitésimales du IXe au XIe si\`ecle.
Edited by Roshdi Rashed . . . . . . . . 161--164
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleLa découverte de
la géométrie non euclidienne sur la
pseudosph\`ere: Les lettres d'Eugenio
Beltrami \`a Jules Hoüel (1868--1881).
Introduction, notes and critical
commentaries by Luciano Boi, Livia
Giacardi, Rossana Tazzioli . . . . . . . 164--166
Yvonne Dold-Samplonius Book Review: \booktitleThe Topkapi
Scroll --- Geometry and Ornament in
Islamic Architecture: Topkapi Palace
Library MS. H. 1956; With an Essay on
the Geometry of the Muqarnas by Mohammad
al-Asad. By Gülru Necipo\uglu. . . . . . 166--172
Roger Cooke Book Review: \booktitleL'Europe
mathématique/Mathematical Europe. Edited
by Catherine Goldstein, Jeremy Gray, and
Jim Ritter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175
Florin Diacu Book Review: \booktitlePoincaré and the
Three-Body Problem. By June Barrow-Green 175--178
Albert C. Lewis Book Review: \booktitleThe Quest for
Longitude: the Proceedings of the
Longitude Symposium, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4--6,
1993. Edited by William J. H. Andrewes 178--180
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--198
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Laura Martini The First Lectures in Italy on Galois
Theory: Bologna, 1886--1887 . . . . . . 201--223
Danny J. Beckers Lagrange in The Netherlands: Dutch
Attempts to Obtain Rigor in Calculus,
1797--1840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--238
Alex D. D. Craik Calculus and Analysis in Early
19th-Century Britain: the Work of
William Wallace . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--267
Jürgen Elstrodt and
Peter Ullrich A Real Sheet of Complex Riemannian
Function Theory: a Recently Discovered
Sketch in Riemann's Own Hand . . . . . . 268--288
Sabine Rommevaux Book Review: \booktitleDie älteste
lateinische Schrift über das indische
Rechnen nach al-Hwarizmi. Edited by
Menso Folkerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleThe Riemann
Legacy: Riemannian Ideas in Mathematics
and Physics. Edited by K. Maurin . . . . 291--291
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 292--294
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295--308
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 309--310
Karen Hunger Parshall and
Jan P. Hogendijk Thoughts and Thanks From the Outgoing
Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--313
Elena Ausejo and
Mariano Hormigón Mathematics for Independence: From
Spanish Liberal Exile to the Young
American Republics . . . . . . . . . . . 314--326
Circe Mary Silva da Silva The Influence of Positivism on the
Teaching of Mathematics in Brazil:
1870--1930 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--343
Hél\`ene Gispert Les débuts de l'histoire des mathématiques
sur les sc\`enes internationales et le
cas de l'entreprise encyclopédique de
Felix Klein et Jules Molk . . . . . . . 344--360
David Fowler and
Chr. Marinus Taisbak Did Euclid's Circles Have Two Kinds of
Radius? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--364
Bruce A. Hedman An Earlier Date for ``Cramer's Rule'' 365--368
Peter Schreiber A New Hypothesis on Dürer's Enigmatic
Polyhedron in His Copper Engraving
``Melencolia I'' . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--377
Galina Pavlovna Matvievskaya and
Gulnara Eskenderovna Yusupova The Mathematical and Astronomical
Manuscripts in the Collection of the
Institute of Oriental Studies of the
Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan at
Tashkent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--381
Yvonne Dold-Samplonius Book Review: \booktitleAl-Sijzi's
Treatise on Geometrical Problem Solving.
Translated and annotated by Jan P.
Hogendijk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382--383
Eugene Seneta Book Review: \booktitleCondorcet.
Arithmétique politique. Textes rares ou
inédits (1767--1789). Critical edition
commented by Bernard Bru and Pierre
Crépel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--385
Norbert Schappacher Book Review: \booktitleRiposte Armonie:
Lettere di Federigo Enriques a Guido
Castelnuovo. Edited by Umberto
Bottazini, Alberto Conte, and Paola
Gario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--388
David E. Zitarelli Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--409
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 410--410
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 411--411
Anonymous Index of Authors of Articles and Reviews
in Volume 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412--412
Anonymous Index of Authors of Articles and
Publications Reviewed and Abstracted in
Volume 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413--418
Umberto Bottazzini and
Craig Fraser At the Turn of the Millennium: New
Challenges for the History of
Mathematics and for \booktitleHistoria
Mathematica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Mircea Radu Justus Grassmann's Contributions to the
Foundations of Mathematics: Mathematical
and Philosophical Aspects . . . . . . . 4--35
Joel A. Goldstein A Matter of Great Magnitude: the
Conflict over Arithmetization in 16th-,
17th-, and 18th-Century English Editions
of Euclid's \booktitleElements Books I
Through VI (1561--1795) . . . . . . . . 36--53
Alexander Vucinich Soviet Mathematics and Dialectics in the
Stalin Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--76
Rüdiger Thiele Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Peter Schreiber Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
June Barrow-Green Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--85
Glen Van Brummelen Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--104
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 105--106
Giovanni Ferraro Functions, Functional Relations, and the
Laws of Continuity in Euler . . . . . . 107--132
Alex D. D. Craik Geometry versus Analysis in Early
19th-Century Scotland: John Leslie,
William Wallace, and Thomas Carlyle . . 133--163
Kurt Ramskov Sources for Danish Mathematics . . . . . 164--170
Alpay Özdural Mathematics and Arts: Connections
between Theory and Practice in the
Medieval Islamic World . . . . . . . . . 171--201
Glen Van Brummelen Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--221
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 222--222
Kurt Ramskov The Danish Mathematical Society through
125 Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--242
Shai Simonson The Missing Problems of Gersonides --- a
Critical Edition, I . . . . . . . . . . 243--302
Frank Swetz Book Review: \booktitleThe Measure of
Reality: Quantification and Western
Society, 1250--1600. By Alfred W.
Crosby. Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . 303--305
Volkmar Schüller Book Review: \booktitleLeonhardi Euleri
opera omnia, secunda, vol. 31:
Commentationes mechanicae et
astronomicae ad physicam cosmicam
pertinentes. Edited by Eric J. Aiton . . 305--309
Glen Van Brummelen Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310--329
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 330--330
Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen A Contextualized Historical Analysis of
the Kuhn--Tucker Theorem in Nonlinear
Programming: the Impact of World War II 331--361
Maryvonne Spiesser Probl\`emes linéaires dans le
\booktitleCompendy de la praticque des
nombres de Barthélemy de Romans et
Mathieu Préhoude (1471): une approche
nouvelle basée sur des sources proches du
\booktitleLiber abbaci de Léonard de
Pise. (French) [Linear problems in the
\booktitleCompendium of the number
practice by Barthélemy de Romans and
Mathieu Préhoude (1471): an new approach
based on sources near \booktitleLiber
abbaci of Leonardo of Pisa] . . . . . . 362--383
Maryvonne Spiesser Probl\`emes linéaires dans le Book
Review: \booktitleCompendy de la
praticque des nombres de Barthélemy de
Romans et Mathieu Préhoude (1471): Une
approche nouvelle basée sur des sources
proches du \booktitleLiber abbaci de
Léonard de Pise . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--383
Shai Simonson The Missing Problems of Gersonides --- a
Critical Edition, II . . . . . . . . . . 384--431
David E. Rowe Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432--440
Giovanna C. Cifoletti Book Review: \booktitleJohannes
Faulhaber, 1580--1635, Rechenmeister in
einer Welt des Umbruchs. By Ivo
Schneider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--442
Glen Van Brummelen Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443--462
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 463--463
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 464--464
Anonymous Index of Authors of Articles and Reviews
in Volume 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465--465
Anonymous Index of Authors of Articles and
Publications Reviewed and Abstracted in
Volume 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466--472
R. P. Burn Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa and
Logarithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--17
Bruce Pourciau Newton and the Notion of Limit . . . . . 18--30
Danny J. Beckers ``Untiring Labor Overcomes All!'' The
History of the Dutch Mathematical
Society in Comparison to Its Various
Counterparts in Europe . . . . . . . . . 31--47
Paola Gario Guido Castelnuovo: Documents for a
Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--53
Catherine Goldstein and
Tom Archibald Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--57
Glen Van Brummelen Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--71
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 72--72
Jacqueline A. Stedall Of Our Own Nation: John Wallis's Account
of Mathematical Learning in Medieval
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--122
Jeremy Gray Matériaux pour l'Histoire des
Mathématiques au XX$^e$ Si\`ecle. Actes
du colloque \`a la mémoire de Jean
Dieudonné (Nice, 1996) . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Hél\`ene Vérin Giambattista Aleotti e gli ingegneri del
Rinascimento. (Italian) [Giambattista
Aleotti and the engineers of the
Renaissance] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--127
Renaud d'Enfert Épures d'architecture. De la coupe des
pierres \`a la géométrie descriptive,
XVIe--XIXe si\`ecles . . . . . . . . . . 127--129
N. M. Swerdlow Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus . . 129--132
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Squaring the Circle. The War between
Hobbes and Wallis . . . . . . . . . . . 132--135
Jan P. Hogendijk Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy . . . 135--136
Jan P. Hogendijk Ibrahim ibn Sinan: logique et géométrie au
X$^e$ si\`ecle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--139
Javier de Lorenzo `?Qué son y para qué sirven los números? y
otros escritos sobre los fundamentos de
la Matemática . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--140
Glen Van Brummelen Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--163
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 164--165
Eleanor Robson Neither Sherlock Holmes nor Babylon: a
Reassessment of Plimpton 322 . . . . . . 167--206
A. Göksel Agargün and
E. Mehmet Özkan A Historical Survey of the Fundamental
Theorem of Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . 207--214
Peter Pesic The Validity of Newton's Lemma 28 . . . 215--219
Reinhard Laubenbacher and
Gary McGrath and
David Pengelley Lagrange and the Solution of Numerical
Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--231
Rossana Tazzioli Green's Function in Some Contributions
of 19th Century Mathematicians . . . . . 232--252
Christine Knipping ``Aller Männerkultur zum Trotz.'' Frauen
in Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften.
(German) [``All male culture
notwithstanding.'' Women in Mathematics
and Natural Sciences] . . . . . . . . . 253--254
Glen Van Brummelen Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--280
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 281--282
Kim Plofker The ``Error'' in the Indian ``Taylor
Series Approximation'' to the Sine . . . 283--295
Livia Giacardi The Corrado Segre Archive . . . . . . . 296--301
Marie-Hél\`ene Labarthe Summa de l'art d'Aritm\`etica. Francesc
Santcliment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--304
Israel Kleiner Modern Algebra and the Rise of
Mathematical Structures . . . . . . . . 304--312
Alessandra Fiocca Desargues en son temps. (French)
[Desargues in his time] . . . . . . . . 312--314
Glen Van Brummelen Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--333
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 334--334
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 335--335
Anonymous Index of Authors of Articles and Reviews
in Volume 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--336
Anonymous Index of Authors of Articles and
Publications Reviewed and Abstracted in
Volume 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--343
Antonio Venezia Un Caso Storico Irrisolto: Le Critiche
di Popper alla Logica Quantistica di
Birkhoff e von Neumann. (Italian) [A
Case of Unsolved History: The Criticism
of Popper of the Quantum Logic of
Birkhoff and von Neumann] . . . . . . . 138--156
Duncan J. Melville Weighing Stones in Ancient Mesopotamia 1--12
Alexander Vucinich Soviet Mathematics and Dialectics in the
Post-Stalin Era: New Horizons . . . . . 13--39
Gregory H. Moore Hilbert on the Infinite: the Role of Set
Theory in the Evolution of Hilbert's
Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--64
Andrea Del Centina The Manuscript of Abel's Parisian Memoir
Found in Its Entirety . . . . . . . . . 65--69
Arne Schirrmacher Book Review: \booktitleDie Entstehung
der Knotentheorie. Kontexte und
Konstruktionen einer modernen
mathematischen Theorie. By Moritz Epple 70--72
Reviel Netz Book Review: \booktitleLa rivoluzione
dimenticata. Il pensiero scientifico
greco e la scienza moderna. By Lucio
Russo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--73
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--97
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 98--98
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 99--99
Corinna Rossi and
Christopher A. Tout Were the Fibonacci Series and the Golden
Section Known in Ancient Egypt? . . . . 101--113
Ivo Radloff Évariste Galois: Principles and
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--137
Joseph D. Zund George David Birkhoff and John von
Neumann: a question of priority and the
ergodic theorems, 1931--1932 . . . . . . 138--156
Volker Peckhaus and
Reinhard Kahle Hilbert's Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . 157--175
Pavel Sisma Georg Hamel and Richard von Mises in
Brno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--192
Jens Hòyrup A Note on Old Babylonian Computational
Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--198
Jan P. Hogendijk The Surface Area of the Bicylinder and
Archimedes' Method . . . . . . . . . . . 199--203
Klaus Volkert Book Review: \booktitleLa correspondance
entre Henri Poincaré et Gösta
Mittag-Leffler. Avec en annexe les
lettres échangées par Poincaré avec
Fredholm, Gyldén et Phragmén. Presentation
and notes by Philippe Nabonnand . . . . 204--209
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--230
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 231--232
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 233--233
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 235--238
Jeremy Gray John Fauvel (21 July 1947, Glasgow--12
May 2001, Leamington Spa) . . . . . . . 239--243
Mohammad Bagheri Abolghassem Ghorbani (1912--2001) . . . 244--246
Jan P. Hogendijk Two Editions of Ibn al-Haytham's
Completion of the Conics . . . . . . . . 247--265
Michael Wüstner Historical Remarks on the Surjectivity
of the Exponential Function of Lie
Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--272
David Aubin and
Amy Dahan Dalmedico Writing the History of Dynamical Systems
and Chaos: Longue Durée and Revolution,
Disciplines and Cultures . . . . . . . . 273--339
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340--360
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 361--361
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 362--362
Henk J. M. Bos Out of the Ivory Tower: the Significance
of Dirk Struik as Historian of
Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--368
Sergey S. Demidov and
Alexei N. Parshin and
Igor R. Shafarevich and
Svetlana S. Petrova and
Galina S. Smirnova and
Vladimir M. Tikhomirov and
Ioannis M. Vandoulakis Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova on the
Eightieth Anniversary of Her Birth . . . 370--382
David Bellhouse On Some Recently Discovered Manuscripts
of Thomas Bayes . . . . . . . . . . . . 383--394
Patricia R. Allaire and
Robert E. Bradley Symbolical Algebra as a Foundation for
Calculus: D. F. Gregory's Contribution 395--426
I. Grattan-Guinness Algebras, Projective Geometry,
Mathematical Logic, and Constructing the
World: Intersections in the Philosophy
of Mathematics of A. N. Whitehead . . . 427--462
Steven N. Shore Blue Sky and Hot Piles: the Evolution of
Radiative Transfer Theory from
Atmospheres to Nuclear Reactors . . . . 463--489
David Aubin Stephen Smale: the Mathematician Who
Broke the Dimensional Barrier . . . . . 490--491
Karen Hunger Parshall George Boole: Selected Manuscripts on
Logic and Its Philosophy . . . . . . . . 491--493
Glen Van Brummelen Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494--510
Anonymous Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . 511--513
Anonymous Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues 514--514
Anonymous Index of Authors of Articles and Reviews
in Volume 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515--515
Anonymous Index of Authors of Articles and
Publications Reviewed and Abstracted in
Volume 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--523
Karen Hunger Parshall The International Commission for the
History of Mathematics (ICHM): an
introduction and a call to the
international community of historians of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Annette Imhausen Calculating the daily bread: Rations in
theory and practice . . . . . . . . . . 3--16
Giovanni Ferraro and
Marco Panza Developing into series and returning
from series: a note on the foundations
of Eighteenth-Century analysis . . . . . 17--46
Alex D. D. Craik The logarithmic tables of Edward Sang
and his daughters . . . . . . . . . . . 47--84
Jan P. Hogendijk Book Review: \booktitleWorld-Maps for
Finding the Direction and Distance to
Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in
Islamic Science: By David A. King.
Leiden (Brill). 1999. ISBN 90-04-11363.
xxix + 638 pp. Islamic Philosophy,
Theology and Science, Vol. 36, Dfl
99,17, Euro 45, US \$56} . . . . . . . . 85--87
C. Edward Sandifer Book Review: \booktitleA Station
Favorable to the Pursuits of Science:
Primary Materials in the History of
Mathematics at the United States
Military Academy: By Joe Albree, David
C. Arney, and V. Frederick Rickey.
Providence, RI (American Mathematical
Society) and London (London Mathematical
Society). History of Mathematics, Vol.
18. 2000. 272 pp. \$59} . . . . . . . . 87--88
J. D. North Book Review: \booktitleJames Joseph
Sylvester. Life and Work in Letters: By
Karen Hunger Parshall. Oxford
(Clarendon). 1998. 337 pp. \$98} . . . . 88--90
Thomas Hawkins Book Review: \booktitlePioneers of
Representation Theory: Frobenius,
Burnside, Schur, and Brauer: By Charles
W. Curtis. History of Mathematics, Vol.
15. Providence, RI (American
Mathematical Society). 1999. 287 pp.
\$49 (hardcover), \$39 (soft-cover) . . 91--93
Andrea Del Centina Corrigendum to: ``The manuscript of
Abel's Parisian memoir found in its
entirety'': [\booktitleHistoria
Mathematica \bf 29 (2002) 65--69] . . . 94--95
I. Grattan-Guinness Erratum to ``Algebras, Projective
Geometry, Mathematical Logic, and
Constructing the World: Intersections in
the Philosophy of Mathematics of A. N.
Whitehead'': [\booktitleHistoria
Mathematica \bf 29 (2002) 427--462] . . 96--96
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Glen Van Brummelen 97--119
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 120--121
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 122--122
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Publisher's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . iii--iv
Andreas Kastanis The teaching of mathematics in the Greek
Military Academy during the first years
of its foundation (1828--1834) . . . . . 123--139
Janet Delve The College of Preceptors and the
\booktitleEducational Times: Changes for
British mathematics education in the
mid-Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 140--172
Adrian C. Rice and
Robin J. Wilson The rise of British analysis in the
early 20th century: the role of G. H.
Hardy and the London Mathematical
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--194
Della Dumbaugh Fenster Funds for mathematics: Carnegie
Institution of Washington support for
mathematics from 1902 to 1921 . . . . . 195--216
Marie-José Durand-Richard Book Review: \booktitleLe nombre, une
hydre \`a $n$ visages. Entre nombres
complexes et vecteurs: Edited by
Dominique Flament. Paris (Editions de la
Maison des sciences de l'homme). 1997.
301 pp. 190 FF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--220
Christoph J. Scriba Book Review: \booktitleDie kubischen
Gleichungen bei Nicolo Tartaglia. Die
relevanten Textstellen aus seinen
\booktitleQuesiti et inventioni diversi
auf Deutsch übersetzt und kommentiert: By
Friedrich Katscher. Veröffentlichungen
der Kommission für Geschichte der
Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und
Medizin No. 53. Vienno (Österreichische
Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche
Klasse). 2001. iv+ 76 S. ISBN
3-7001-2984-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--221
Peter Ullrich Book Review: \booktitleRiemanns
Einführung in die Funktionentheorie. Eine
quellenkritische Edition seiner
Vorlesungen mit einer Bibliographie zur
Wirkungsgeschichte der Riemannschen
Funktionentheorie: By Erwin
Neuenschwander. Abhandlungen der
Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen.
Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht). 1996.
232 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--223
Paul R. Wolfson Book Review: \booktitleBernhard Riemann,
1826--1866: Turning Points in the
Conception of Mathematics: By Detlef
Laugwitz. Tr. Abe Shenitzer with the
editorial assistance of the author,
Hardy Grant, and Sarah Shenitzer. Boston
(Birkhäuser). 1999. xvii + 357 pp. ISBN
0-8176-4040-1, 3-7643-4040-1 . . . . . . 223--226
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Glen Van Brummelen 227--252
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 253--254
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 255--255
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Menso Folkerts and
Christoph J. Scriba Kurt-Reinhard Biermann (1919--2002) . . 258--262
Richard L. Kremer Thoughts on John of Saxony's method for
finding times of true syzygy . . . . . . 263--277
Maria Panteki French ``logique'' and British
``logic'': on the origins of Augustus de
Morgan's early logical inquiries,
1805--1835 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--340
Mircea Radu A debate about the axiomatization of
arithmetic: Otto Hölder against Robert
Graßmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--377
Edith Dudley Sylla Book Review: \booktitleDie Werke von
Jakob Bernoulli. Vol. 5,
Differentialgeometrie: Edited by André
Weil and Martin Mattmüller.
Basel/Boston/Berlin (Birkhäuser Verlag).
1999. xxv + 445 pp. EUR 211 . . . . . . 378--380
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Glen Van Brummelen 381--403
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 404--404
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 405--405
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Niccolo Guicciardini Conceptualism and contextualism in the
recent historiography of Newton's
Principia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407--431
Herman Erlichson Passage to the limit in Proposition I,
Book I of Newton's \booktitlePrincipia 432--440
Michael Nauenberg Kepler's area law in the
\booktitlePrincipia: filling in some
details in Newton's proof of Proposition
1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441--456
Dominique Tourn\`es L'intégration graphique des équations
différentielles ordinaires . . . . . . . 457--493
Steven N. Shore Macrocosmos/microcosmos: celestial
mechanics and old quantum theory . . . . 494--513
Michiyo Nakane Book Review: \booktitleThe Mathematical
Papers of Sir William Rowan Hamilton:
Edited by Brendan K. P. Scaife.
Cambridge (Cambridge University Press).
2000. pp. viii + 842 . . . . . . . . . . 514--516
Gregory H. Moore Book Review: \booktitleFrom Kant to
Hilbert: a Source Book in the
Foundations of Mathematics: Selected and
edited by William Ewald. Oxford
(Clarendon Press). 1996. Two volumes.
xviii + 1340 pp. with a personal name
index. \$300 US} . . . . . . . . . . . . 516--519
Henk J. M. Bos Book Review: \booktitleClifford
Truesdell: Eine wissenschaftliche
Biographie des Dichters, Mathematikers
und Naturphilosophen: By Yurie A.
Ignatieff and Heike Willig. Aachen
(Shaker-Verlag). 1999. ISBN
3-8265-4804-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--521
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Glen Van Brummelen 522--551
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 552--553
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 554--554
Anonymous Index of author of articles and reviews
in volume 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555--555
Anonymous Index of author of articles and
publications reviewed and abstracted in
volume 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556--563
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Craig Fraser Editor's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Nathan Sidoli On the use of the term diastema in
ancient Greek constructions . . . . . . 2--10
Hans Weitzel A further hypothesis on the polyhedron
of A. Dürer's engraving
\booktitleMelencolia I . . . . . . . . . 11--14
João Caramalho Domingues Variables, limits, and infinitesimals in
Portugal in the late 18th century . . . 15--33
Giovanni Ferraro Differentials and differential
coefficients in the Eulerian foundations
of the calculus . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--61
Angelo Guerraggio and
Elena Molho The Origins of Quasi-Concavity: a
Development between Mathematics and
Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--75
Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus Zermelo in the mirror of the Baer
correspondence, 1930--1931 . . . . . . . 76--86
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Glen Van Brummelen 87--114
Sabine Rommevaux Book Review: \booktitleAbu l-`Abbas
an-Nayr\=\iz\=\is Exzerpte aus (Ps.- ?)
Simplicius' Kommentar zu den
Definitionen, Postulaten und Axiomen in
Euclids Elementa I: Eingeleitet, ediert
und mit arabischen und lateinischen
Glossaren versehen von Rüdiger Arnzen.
Köln (Essen). 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
Eisso J. Atzema Book Review: \booktitleCaspar Wessel. On
the Analytical Representation of
Direction. An Attempt Chiefly to Solving
Plane and Spherical Polygons (1797):
Bodil Branner and Jesper Lützen, Eds.
Copenhagen (\booktitleMatematik-fysiske
Meddelser \bf 46:1), 1999 . . . . . . . 116--119
José Ferreirós Book Review: \booktitleFrom Frege to
Gödel. A Source Book in Mathematical
Logic, 1879--1931: By Jean van
Heijenoort. Cambridge, MA (Harvard
University Press). 1967; new paperback
edn., 2002. 664 pages, 1 halftone. ISBN
0-674-32449-8. \$27.95} . . . . . . . . 119--124
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 125--126
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 127--127
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
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Jens Hòyrup Conceptual divergence-canons and
taboos-and critique: reflections on
explanatory categories . . . . . . . . . 129--147
Duncan J. Melville Poles and walls in Mesopotamia and Egypt 148--162
I. Grattan-Guinness The mathematics of the past:
distinguishing its history from our
heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--185
Albert C. Lewis Kenneth O. May and information retrieval
in mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--195
M. Meo The mathematical life of Cauchy's group
theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--221
Daniel S. Alexander Book Review: \booktitleThrough a
Reporter's Eyes, The Life of Stefan
Banach: By Roman Kaluza. Translated and
edited by Ann Kostant and Wojbor
Woyczy\'nski. Boston (Birkhäuser). 1996.
168 pp. \$36.95} . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--226
Amy Shell-Gellasch Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Mathematics: By Jeff Suzuki.
Prentice-Hall (New Jersey). 2002. 815
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--228
Lis Brack-Bernsen Book Review: \booktitleÄgyptische
Algorithmen. Eine Untersuchung zu den
mittelägyptischen mathematischen
Aufgabentexten: By Annette Imhausen.
Wiesbaden (Harrassowitz Verlag). 2003.
ISBN 3-447-04644-9. 387 pp. 58 EUR . . . 228--230
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Glen Van Brummelen 231--258
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 259--260
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 261--261
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Karen Hunger Parshall Defining a mathematical research school:
the case of algebra at the University of
Chicago, 1892--1945 . . . . . . . . . . 263--278
Albert C. Lewis The beginnings of the R. L. Moore school
of topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--295
Laura Martini Algebraic research schools in Italy at
the turn of the Twentieth Century: the
cases of Rome, Palermo, and Pisa . . . . 296--309
Aldo Brigaglia and
Ciro Ciliberto Remarks on the relations between the
Italian and American schools of
algebraic geometry in the first decades
of the 20th century . . . . . . . . . . 310--319
Cinzia Cerroni Non-Desarguian geometries and the
foundations of geometry from David
Hilbert to Ruth Moufang . . . . . . . . 320--336
Eugene Seneta Mathematics, religion, and Marxism in
the Soviet Union in the 1930s . . . . . 337--367
Craig Fraser Book Review: \booktitleJean Le Rond
d'Alembert. OEuvres compl\`etes Série I:
Traités et mémoires mathématiques,
1736--1756. Volume 6: Premiers textes de
mécanique céleste, 1747--1749: Edited by
Michelle Chapront--Touzé. Paris (CNRS
Editions). 2002. 531 pp. EUR 60 . . . . 368--369
Ulf Hashagen Book Review: \booktitleKarl Culmann
(1821--1881) und die graphische Statik:
By Bertram Maurer.
Berlin/Diepholz/Stuttgart (GNT-Verlag).
1998. 550 pp. ISBN 3-928186-41-8. EUR 40 369--371
Philippe Nabonnand Book Review: \booktitleHermann Weyl's
\booktitleRaum--Zeit--Materie and a
General Introduction to His Scientific
Work: Edited by Erhard Scholz.
DMV-Seminar 30. Basel/Boston/Berlin
(Birkhäuser). 2001. 403 pp. . . . . . . . 371--375
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Glen Van Brummelen 376--404
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 405--406
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 407--407
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Christoph J. Scriba Adolf Prag (1906--2004) . . . . . . . . 409--413
Christopher Baltus D'Alembert's proof of the fundamental
theorem of algebra . . . . . . . . . . . 414--428
Todd Timmons A prosopographical analysis of the early
American mathematics publication
community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--454
Tony Crilly The Cambridge Mathematical Journal and
its descendants: the linchpin of a
research community in the early and
mid-Victorian Age . . . . . . . . . . . 455--497
J. L. Berggren On the Sector-Figure and Related Texts,
vol. 108. Institute for the History of
Arabic--Islamic Science at the Johann
Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am
Main (2001) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498--499
Patricia R. Allaire Book Review: \booktitleCreators of
Mathematics: the Irish Connection, Ken
Houston (Ed.). University College Dublin
Press, Dublin (2000) . . . . . . . . . . 499--501
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Glen Van Brummelen 502--530
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 531--531
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 532--532
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533--533
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and
publications reviewed and abstracted in
volume 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534--540
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . ??
I. Grattan-Guinness John Greenberg (1945--2004) . . . . . . 1--3
Yibao Xu The first Chinese translation of the
last nine books of Euclid's
\booktitleElements and its source . . . 4--32
David Sepkoski Nominalism and constructivism in
seventeenth-century mathematical
philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--59
Andrea Del Centina Letters of Sophie Germain preserved in
Florence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--75
Jay Belanger and
Dorothy Stein Shadowy vision: spanners in the
mechanization of mathematics . . . . . . 76--93
Edward Sandifer Book Review: \booktitleThe Science of
Conjecture: Evidence and Probability
before Pascal, James Franklin. Johns
Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
(2002), ISBN 0-8018-7109-3 . . . . . . . 94--97
Barnabas Hughes Book Review: \booktitleMaestro Dardi
(sec. xiv) Aliabraa Argibra dal
manoscrito I.VII.17 della Biblioteca
Comunale di Siena: Quaderno del Centro
Studi della Matematica Medioevale, No.
26. Edited by Raffaelle Franci. Siena
(Centro Studi della Matematica
Medioevale). 2001. 299 pp. Gratis . . . 97--98
T. M. Porter Book Review: \booktitleThe History of
Mathematical Tables, From Sumer to
Spreadsheets, Martin Campbell-Kelly,
Mary Croarken, Raymond Flood, Eleanor
Robson. Oxford University Press, Oxford
(2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
F. William Lawvere Book Review: \booktitleA new branch of
mathematics, ``\booktitleThe
Ausdehnungslehre of 1844,'' and other
works. Open Court (1995). Translated by
Lloyd C. Kannenberg, with foreword by
Albert C. Lewis. \booktitleExtension
Theory, ``The Ausdehnungslehre of
1862'', vol. 19. American Mathematical
Society\ldots London Mathematical
Society (2000). Translated and with a
foreword and notes by Lloyd C.
Kannenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--106
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Sloan Evans
Despeaux and Glen Van Brummelen . . . . 107--125
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 126--126
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 127--127
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Gregg De Young Diagrams in the Arabic Euclidean
tradition: a preliminary assessment . . 129--179
David Bellhouse Decoding Cardano's \booktitleLiber de
Ludo Aleae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--202
Pietro Nastasi and
Rossana Tazzioli Toward a scientific and personal
biography of Tullio Levi-Civita
(1873--1941) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--236
William H. Donahue Book Review: \booktitleJohannes Kepler
Gesammelte Werke, vol. 21.1, Manuscripta
Astronomica III; De Calendario
Gregoriano; Manuscripta Mathematica:
Edited by Volker Bialas, Friederike
Boockmann, and Eberhard Knobloch. Munich
(Verlag C. H. Beck). 2002. ISBN
3-406-47427-6. 699 pp. EUR 102 . . . . . 237--238
Antonella Romano Book Review: \booktitleGiambattista
Riccioli e il merito scientifico dei
gesuiti nell'et\`a barocca: a cura di
Maria Teresa Borgato. Biblioteca di
Nuncius XLIV. Florence (Olschki). 2002.
xviii + 483 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Sloan Evans
Despeaux and Glen Van Brummelen . . . . 241--267
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 268--268
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 269--269
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rüdiger Thiele Matthias Schramm, 1928--2005 . . . . . . 271--274
Agathe Keller Making diagrams speak, in Bh\=askara I's
commentary on the Book Review:
\booktitleAryabha\dt\=\iya . . . . . . . 275--302
Paul Rusnock and
Angus Kerr-Lawson Bolzano and uniform continuity . . . . . 303--311
Alan Gluchoff Pure mathematics applied in early
Twentieth-Century America: the case of
T. H. Gronwall, consulting mathematician 312--357
Glen Van Brummelen Book Review: \booktitleThe Melon-Shaped
Astrolabe in Arabic Astronomy, E. S.
Kennedy, P. Kunitzsch, R. P. Lorch
(Eds.). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart
(1999) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--360
Daniel Garber Book Review: \booktitleGottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz, Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe,
III. Reihe. Mathematischer,
naturwissenschaftlicher und technischer
Briefwechsel, Band 5: 1691--1693.
Heinz--Jürgen Heß, James G. O'Hara (Eds.),
Akademie Verlag, Munich, ISBN
3-05-003471-82003, 2003, 735 pp. 258 EUR 360--362
Michel Blay Book Review: \booktitleGottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz. Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe,
VII. Reihe. Mathematische Schriften,
Band 3: 1672--1676. Differenzen, Folgen,
Reihen. Siegmund Probst, Wolfgang
Knobloch, Nora Gädeke (Eds.), Akademie
Verlag, Munich, 2003, 880 pp. ISBN
3-05-004003-3. 258 EUR . . . . . . . . . 362--363
Gert Schubring Book Review: \booktitleSymbols,
Impossible Numbers, and Geometric
Entanglements: British Algebra Through
the Commentaries on Newton's Universal
Arithmetick, Helena Mary Pycior.
Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK
(1997), ISBN 0-521-48124-4 . . . . . . . 363--366
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleIn the Light of
Logic, Solomon Feferman. Oxford Univ.
Press, New York, Oxford (1998), ISBN
0-19-508030-0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--367
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Sloan Evans
Despeaux and Glen Van Brummelen . . . . 368--393
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 394--395
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 396--396
Anonymous Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Karen Parshall The fifth award of the Kenneth O. May
Medal and Prize . . . . . . . . . . . . 397--399
Jeffrey A. Oaks and
Haitham M. Alkhateeb Mal, enunciations, and the prehistory of
Arabic algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--425
J. L. Berggren and
Glen Van Brummelen Al-Kuhi's revision of Book I of Euclid's
\booktitleElements . . . . . . . . . . . 426--452
Henrik Kragh Sòrensen Exceptions and counterexamples:
Understanding Abel's comment on Cauchy's
Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--480
Ken Saito Book Review: \booktitleApollonius of
Perga's \booktitleConica: Text, Context,
Subtext, Michael N. Fried, Sabetai
Unguru. Brill, Leiden (2001), ISBN
90-04-11977-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481--494
Curtis Wilson Book Review: \booktitleKepler's
Philosophy and the New Astronomy, Rhonda
Martens. Princeton University Press,
Princeton, NJ (2000), ISBN 0-691-05069-4 485--487
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleFrancesco Fa\`a
di Bruno. Ricerca scientifica
insegnamento e divulgazione, vol. 12,
Livia Giacardi (Ed.), in: Studi e fonti
per la storia della Universit\`a di
Torino. Palazzo Carignano, Turin (2004) 488--489
I. Grattan-Guinnes Book Review: \booktitleL'Archivio
Giuseppe Peano, 2002. ISBN
88-9007876-1-7. EUR 30.
\booktitleL'opera omnia di Giuseppe
Peano, 2002. ISBN 88-9007876-2-5. EUR 50
\booktitleLe riviste di Giuseppe Peano,
2003. ISBN 88-9007876-7-6. EUR 30 Edited
by Clara Silvia Roero [L'Archivio also
with Natalia Nervo and Tiziana Armano].
Turin (Department of Mathematics,
University of Turin [L'Archivio also
with the Comune di Cuneo]) [three
CD-ROMs] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489--492
Jackie Stedall Book Review: \booktitleOxford Figures:
800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences,
John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, Robin
Wilson. Oxford University Press, Oxford
(2000), ISBN 0-19-852309-2 . . . . . . . 492--494
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Sloan Evans
Despeaux and Kim Plofker . . . . . . . . 495--515
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 516--517
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 518--518
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519--519
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and
publications reviewed and abstracted in
volume 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520--526
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Antoni Malet and
Marco Panza The Origins of Algebra: From
al-Khwarizmi to Descartes: International
Workshop held at Barcelona, 27--29 March
2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Jens Hòyrup Jacopo da Firenze and the beginning of
Italian vernacular algebra . . . . . . . 4--42
Javier Docampo Rey Reading Luca Pacioli's \booktitleSumma
in Catalonia: an early 16th-Century
Catalan manuscript on algebra and
arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--62
Antoni Malet Renaissance notions of number and
magnitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--81
Ma. Rosa Massa Esteve Algebra and geometry in Pietro Mengoli
(1625--1686) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--112
Eberhard Knobloch Beyond Cartesian limits: Leibniz's
passage from algebraic to
``transcendental'' mathematics . . . . . 113--131
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Sloan Evans
Despeaux and Kim Plofker . . . . . . . . 132--145
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 146--146
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 147--147
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Satyanad Kichenassamy Baudhayana's rule for the quadrature of
the circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--183
Kenneth Manders Algebra in Roth, Faulhaber, and
Descartes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--209
Manuel A. Sellés Infinitesimals in the foundations of
Newton's mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . 210--223
Andrea Del Centina Abel's surviving manuscripts including
one recently found in London . . . . . . 224--233
Erdal Inönü Mehmet Nadir: an amateur mathematician
in Ottoman Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . 234--242
Duncan J. Melville Book Review: \booktitleLengths, Widths,
Surfaces. A Portrait of Old Babylonian
Algebra and Its Kin, Jens Hòyrup.
Springer-Verlag, New York (2002), ISBN
0-387-95303-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--248
Nathan Sidoli Book Review: \booktitleEuclid's Data:
the Importance of Being Given. Museum
Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen (2003),
ISBN 87-7289-815-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 248--250
Janet L. Beery Book Review: \booktitleA Discourse
Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to
1685. By Jacqueline A. Stedall. Oxford
(Oxford University Press). 2002. ISBN
0-19-852495-1. 294 pp. \$116} . . . . . 250--253
Craig Fraser Book Review: \booktitleEssays on the
History of Mechanics: In Memory of
Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo
Benvenuto, Antonio Becchi, Massimo
Corradi, Frederico Foce, Orietta
Pedemonte (Eds.). Birkhäuser Verlag,
Boston/Basel (2003), ISBN 3-7643-1476-1 253--254
Eugene Seneta Book Review: \booktitleStatistics on the
Table: the History of Statistical
Concepts and Methods, Paperback edition,
M. Stigler Stephen (2002). Harvard Univ.
Press, Cambridge, MA (1999), ISBN
0-674-00979-7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--258
Rüdiger Thiele Book Review: \booktitleGauss: Titan of
Science, Revised edition, with
contributions by Jeremy Gray and
Fritz-Egbert Dohse, G. Waldo Dunnington.
Mathematical Association of America,
Washington, DC (2003), ISBN
0-88385-547-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258--259
Ralf Krömer Book Review: \booktitleDas
Homöomorphieproblem, insbesondere der
3-Mannigfaltigkeiten, in der Topologie
1892--1935: By Klaus Volkert.
Philosophia scientiæ, Cahier spécial 4.
Paris (Kimé). 2002. ISBN 2-84174-275-X.
343 pp. EUR 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--260
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Sloan Evans
Despeaux and Kim Plofker . . . . . . . . 261--270
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 271--272
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 273--273
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
June Barrow-Green and
Jeremy Gray Geometry and its uses in physics,
1900--1930: Four papers from an Open
University Conference, Milton Keynes,
September 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Elena Anne Corie Marchisotto The projective geometry of Mario Pieri:
a legacy of Georg Karl Christian von
Staudt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--314
June Barrow-Green and
Jeremy Gray Geometry at Cambridge, 1863--1940 . . . 315--356
Klaus Volkert Georg Klügel's dissertation (1763) now
accessible on the World-Wide Web . . . . 357--358
Raymond Ayoub Book Review: \booktitleSherlock Holmes
in Babylon and Other Tales of
Mathematical History. Edited by Marlow
Anderson, Victor Katz, and Robin Wilson.
Washington, DC (The Mathematical
Association of America). 2004. ISBN
0-88385-546-1. 398 pp. \$51.95} . . . . 359--361
Warren Van Egmond Book Review: \booktitleFrom China to
Paris: 2000 Years Transmission of
Mathematical Ideas. Edited by Yvonne
Dold-Samplonius, Joseph W. Dauben, Menso
Folkerts, and Benno van Dalen. Boethius,
Band 46. Stuttgart (Franz Steiner
Verlag). 2002. ISBN 3-515-08223-9. ix +
467 pp. Euro 68 . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--362
Kim Plofker Book Review: \booktitlePtolemy's
Geography: an Annotated Translation of
the Theoretical Chapters, J. Lennart
Berggren, Alexander Jones. Princeton
University Press, Princeton, NJ (2001),
ISBN 0-691-09259-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 362--364
Antoni Malet Book Review: \booktitleGino Arrighi. La
matematica dell'Et\`a di Mezzo. Scritti
scelti, F. Barberini, R. Franci, L. Toti
Rigatelli (Eds.). Edizioni ETS, Pisa
(2004), ISBN 88-467-1043-6 . . . . . . . 364--365
C. Edward Sandifer Book Review: \booktitlePensions and
Insurance before 1800: a Social History.
By Christopher G. Lewin. East Lothian,
Scotland (Tuckwell Press). 2003. ISBN
1-86232-211-2. xvi + 471 pp. \pounds 25 365--367
Eisso J. Atzema Book Review: \booktitleLenses and Waves.
Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical
Science of Optics in the Seventeenth
Century, vol. 9, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis,
in: Archimedes. New Studies in the
History and Philosophy of Science and
Technology. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht
(2004), ISBN 1-4020-2697-8 . . . . . . . 367--369
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleThe Mathematical
Works of Bernard Bolzano. By Steve Russ.
Oxford (Oxford University Press). 2004.
ISBN 0-19-853930-4. xxx + 698 pp.
\$229.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--371
Emma Connon Book Review: \booktitleAbel's Proof: an
Essay on the Sources and Meaning of
Mathematical Unsolvability, Peter Pesic.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA/London (2003),
ISBN 0-262-16216-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 371--372
J. M. Plotkin Book Review: \booktitleFelix Hausdorff.
Gesammelte Werke. Band II: Grundzüge der
Mengenlehre, Egbert Brieskorn, Srishti
D. Chatterji, Moritz Epple, Ulrich
Felgner, Horst Herrlich, Mirek Husek,
Vladimir Kanovei, Peter Koepke, Gerhard
Preuß, Walter Purkert, Erhard Scholz
(Eds.). Springer-Verlag,
Berlin/Heidelberg/New York (2002), ISBN
3-540-42224-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372--374
Francine F. Abeles Book Review: \booktitleCogwheels of the
Mind. The Story of Venn Diagrams, A. W.
F. Edwards. The Johns Hopkins University
Press, Baltimore and London (2004), ISBN
0-8018-7434-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--376
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377--394
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 395--396
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 397--397
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Tilman Sauer Field equations in teleparallel
space--time: Einstein's
Fernparallelismus approach toward
unified field theory . . . . . . . . . . 399--439
Erhard Scholz Introducing groups into quantum theory
(1926--1930) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440--490
Nathan Sidoli Book Review: \booktitleClassics in the
History of Greek Mathematics, Jean
Christianidis (Ed.). Kluwer Academic,
Dordrecht (2004), ISBN 1-4020-0081-2 . . 491--493
Robin Hartshorne Book Review: \booktitleHistoire des
nombres complexes: Entre alg\`ebre et
géométrie, Dominique Flament. CNRS
Editions, Paris (2003), ISBN
2-271-06128-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493--496
Jean Mawhin Book Review: \booktitleHenri Lebesgue.
Les lendemains de l'intégrale. Lettres
\`a Emile Borel, Bernard Bru, Pierre
Dugac (Eds.). Vuibert, Paris (2004),
ISBN 2-7117-5309-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 496--497
Tilman Sauer Book Review: \booktitleDavid Hilbert and
the Axiomatization of Physics
(1898--1918). From \booktitleGrundlagen
der Geometrie to \booktitleGrundlagen
der Physik, vol. 10, Leo Corry, in:
Archimedes. New Studies in the History
and Philosophy of Science and
Technology. Kluwer Academic,
Dordrecht/Boston/London (2004), ISBN
1-4020-2777-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497--500
David E. Rowe Book Review: \booktitle``Zwei wirkliche
Kerle'': Neues zur Entdeckung der
Gravitationsgleichungen der Allgemeinen
Relativitätstheorie durch Albert Einstein
und David Hilbert, Wuensch Daniela.
Termessos, Göttingen (2005), ISBN
3-938016-04-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--508
David E. Rowe ``Two genuine guys'': New information on
the discovery of the gravitation
equations of the General Relativity
Theory through Albert Einstein and David
Hilbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500--508
Anonymous Abstracts: Edited by Sloan Evans
Despeaux and Kim Plofker . . . . . . . . 509--526
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 527--527
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 528--528
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and reviews
in volume 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529--529
Anonymous Index of authors of articles and
publications reviewed and abstracted in
volume 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530--533
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Benno van Dalen and
June Barrow-Green Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Kim Plofker David Pingree (1933--2005) . . . . . . . 3--6
Rüdiger Thiele A birthday tribute to Karin Reich, with
a selected bibliography . . . . . . . . 7--9
Christopher Cullen The \booktitleSu\`an sh\`u shu,
``Writings on reckoning'': Rewriting the
history of early Chinese mathematics in
the light of an excavated manuscript . . 10--44
Jeffrey A. Oaks and
Haitham M. Alkhateeb Simplifying equations in Arabic algebra 45--61
Giovanni Ferraro Convergence and formal manipulation in
the theory of series from 1730 to 1815 62--88
Sloan Evans Despeaux Launching mathematical research without
a formal mandate: the role of
university-affiliated journals in
Britain, 1837--1870 . . . . . . . . . . 89--106
Jan van Maanen Book Review: \booktitleJohn Pell
(1611--1685) and his correspondence with
Sir Charles Cavendish. The mental world
of an early modern mathematician, Noel
Malcolm, Jacqueline Stedall. Oxford
University Press, Oxford (2005), ISBN
0-19-856484-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Jaap Maat Book Review: \booktitleThe
Correspondence of John Wallis
(1616--1703): Volume II (1660--September
1668), Philip Beeley, Christoph J.
Scriba (Eds.). Oxford University Press,
Oxford (2005), ISBN 0-19-856601-8 . . . 108--111
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleKardinalität und
Kardinäle. Wissenschaftshistorische
Aufarbeitung der Korrespondenz zwischen
Georg Cantor und katholischen Theologen
seiner Zeit, vol. 53, Christian Tapp,
in: Boethius: Texte und Abhandlungen zur
Geschichte der Mathematik und der
Naturwissenschaften. Franz Steiner
Verlag, Stuttgart (2005), ISBN
3-515-08620-X . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
Christoph J. Scriba Book Review: \booktitleFelix Hausdorff.
Gesammelte Werke. Band VII:
Philosophisches Werk, Werner Stegmaier
(Ed.). Springer-Verlag,
Berlin/Heidelberg/New York (2004), ISBN
3-540-20836-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Book Review: \booktitleLandmark Writings
in Western Mathematics 1640---1940, I.
Grattan-Guinness (Ed.). Elsevier,
Amsterdam (2005), ISBN 0-444-50871-6 . . 114--115
Sloan Evans Despeaux and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--133
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 134--135
Anonymous Papers to appear in forthcoming issues 136--136
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Sergei S. Demidov and
Ioannis M. Vandoulakis Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova
(1921--2005) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--139
Bruce Pourciau Force, deflection, and time: Proposition
VI of Newton's Principia . . . . . . . . 140--172
David R. Bellhouse Lord Stanhope's papers on the Doctrine
of Chances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--186
Luís Miguel Carolino Cristoforo Borri and the epistemological
status of mathematics in
seventeenth-century Portugal . . . . . . 187--205
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze and
Sandy Zabell Richard von Mises and the ``problem of
two races'': a statistical satire in
1934 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--220
Wladimir G. Boskoff and
Bogdan D. Suceava Barbilian spaces: the history of a
geometric idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--224
Jens Hòyrup Book Review: \booktitleL'Alg\`ebre
arabe. Gen\`ese d'un art By Ahmed
Djebbar. Préface de Bernard Maitte. Paris
($ \ll $Inflexions$ \gg $, collection
dirigée par Jean Rosmorduc;
Vuibert/ADAPT-SNES). 2005. ISBN 2 7117
5381 6 (Vuibert), 2 9096 8065 7 (ADAPT).
viii + 212 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--227
Edith Dudley Sylla Book Review: \booktitleQuestiones circa
Tractatum Proportionum Magistri Thome
Braduardini By Blaise de Parme. Edited
by Joel Biard and Sabine Rommevaux.
Textes Philosophiques du Moyen Age XXII.
Paris (Vrin). 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . 227--229
Eberhard Knobloch Book Review: \booktitleClavius, une clé
pour Euclide au XVIe si\`ecle, Sabine
Rommevaux. Librairie Philosophique J.
Vrin, Paris (2005), ISBN 2-7116-1787-4 229--230
Olivier Bruneau Book Review: \booktitleNewton et les
origines de l'Analyse: 1664--1666, Marco
Panza. Albert Blanchard, Paris (2005),
ISBN 2-85367-230-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231
Thomas Drucker Book Review: \booktitleThe Political
Pamphlets and Letters of Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson and Related Pieces: a
Mathematical Approach, Francine F.
Abeles (Ed.). Lewis Carroll Society of
North America, New York (2001), ISBN
0-930326-14-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--233
Patti W. Hunter Book Review: \booktitleKarl Pearson: the
Scientific Life in a Statistical Age,
Theodore M. Porter. Princeton University
Press, Princeton, NJ (2004), ISBN
0-691-11445-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--236
Victor J. Katz Book Review: \booktitleFrom Calculus to
Computers: Using the Last 200 Years of
Mathematics History in the Classroom,
Amy Shell-Gellasch, Dick Jardine (Eds.).
The Mathematical Association of America,
Washington, DC (2005), ISBN
0-88385-178-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--238
Robert E. Bradley Book Review: \booktitleMathematics and
the Historian's Craft: the Kenneth O.
May Lectures, Glen Van Brummelen,
Michael Kinyon (Eds.). Springer-Verlag,
New York (2005), ISBN 0-387-25284-3 . . 238--240
Sloan Evans Despeaux and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--258
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 259--260
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
John E. Murdoch Marshall Clagett (1916--2005) . . . . . 261--265
Yibao Xu Li Di (1927--2006) . . . . . . . . . . . 266--270
David E. Zitarelli Straddling centuries: the struggles of a
mathematician and his university to
enter the ranks of research mathematics,
1870--1950 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--288
Jean Christianidis The way of Diophantus: Some
clarifications on Diophantus' method of
solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--305
John Hannah False position in Leonardo of Pisa's
\booktitleLiber abbaci . . . . . . . . . 306--332
Gregory H. Moore The evolution of the concept of
homeomorphism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--343
Barnabas B. Hughes Book Review: \booktitleGiochi matematici
alla corte di Carlomagno. Problemi per
rendere acuta la mente dei giovani,
Raffaella Franci. Edizioni ETS, Pisa
(2005), ISBN 88-467-1351-6 . . . . . . . 344--345
Sonja Brentjes Book Review: \booktitleLe Développement
de la Géométrie aux IXe-XIe Si\`ecles. Abu
Sahl al-Quhi, Philippe Abgrall, in:
Librairie Scientifique et Technique,
Collection Sciences dans l'Histoire.
Albert Blanchard, Paris (2004), ISBN
2-85367-221-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--348
Alfred Nordmann Book Review: \booktitleMechanistic
Images in Geometric Form: Heinrich
Hertz's Principles of Mechanics, Jesper
Lützen. Oxford University Press, Oxford
(2005), ISBN 0-19-856737-5 . . . . . . . 349--352
Erhard Scholz Book Review: \booktitleHausdorff on
Ordered Sets, vol. 25, J. M. Plotkin
(Ed.), in: History of Mathematics.
American Mathematical Society, London
Mathematical Society, Providence, RI
(2005), ISBN 0-8218-3788-5 . . . . . . . 352--354
Helmut Rechenberg Book Review: \booktitleJohn von Neumann:
Selected Letters, vol. 27, Miklós Rédei
(Ed.), in: History of Mathematics.
American Mathematical Society, London
Mathematical Society, Providence, RI
(2005), ISBN 0-8218-3776-1 . . . . . . . 354--356
Marlow Anderson Book Review: \booktitleMusings of the
Masters: an Anthology of Mathematical
Reflections, Raymond G. Ayoub (Ed.). The
Mathematical Association of America,
Washington, DC (2004), ISBN
0-88385-549-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--358
Sloan Evans Despeaux and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--374
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 375--376
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
John Steele Asger Aaboe (1922--2007) . . . . . . . . 377--379
Jacqueline Stedall Symbolism, combinations, and visual
imagery in the mathematics of Thomas
Harriot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380--401
Johanna Pejlare Torsten Brodén's work on the foundations
of Euclidean geometry . . . . . . . . . 402--427
Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus Zermelo and the Heidelberg Congress 1904 428--432
J. L. Berggren Book Review: \booktitleAl-Farghani on
the Astrolabe, Band 52, Richard Lorch
(Ed.), in: Boethius. Franz Steiner
Verlag, Stuttgart (2005), ISBN
3-515-08713-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--434
David Bellhouse Book Review: \booktitleThe Art of
Conjecturing, together with Letter to a
Friend on Sets in Court Tennis. The
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Baltimore (2005), ISBN 0-8018-8235-4 . . 435--436
Robin Wilson Book Review: \booktitleArthur Cayley:
Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian
Age, Tony Crilly. The Johns Hopkins
University Press, Baltimore (2006), ISBN
0-8018-8011-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--439
David E. Rowe Book Review: \booktitleDavid Hilbert's
Lectures on the Foundations of Geometry,
1891--1902, Michael Hallett, Ulrich
Majer (Eds.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin,
Heidelberg, New York (2004), ISBN
978-3-540-64373-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 440--443
David E. Zitarelli Book Review: \booktitlePursuit of
Genius: Flexner, Einstein, and the Early
Faculty at the Institute for Advanced
Study, Steve Batterson. A. K. Peters,
Wellesley, MA (2006), ISBN
978-1-56881-259-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 443--446
Edward Jurkowitz Book Review: \booktitleArnold
Sommerfeld. Wissenschaftlicher
Briefwechsel. Band I: 1892--1918, Band
II: 1919--1951, CD-ROM: 1892--1951,
Michael Eckert, Karl Märker (Eds.).
Verlag für Geschichte der
Naturwissenschaften und der Technik,
Diepholz (2000) (2004), ISBN
978-3-928186-44-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 446--448
Karen Hunger Parshall Book Review: \booktitleR. L. Moore:
Mathematician and Teacher, John Parker.
Mathematical Association of America
(2005), ISBN 0-88385-550-X . . . . . . . 448--451
Stacy G. Langton Book Review: \booktitleDr. Euler's
Fabulous Formula: Cures Many
Mathematical Ills, Paul J. Nahin.
Princeton University Press, Princeton
(2006), ISBN 0-691-11822-1 . . . . . . . 451--454
Sloan Evans Despeaux and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--473
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 474--475
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Abdulrahman A. Abdulaziz On the Egyptian method of decomposing $
2 / n $ into unit fractions . . . . . . 1--18
Benjamin Wardhaugh Musical logarithms in the seventeenth
century: Descartes, Mercator, Newton . . 19--36
Paul R. Wolfson George Boole and the origins of
invariant theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--46
Clemency Williams Book Review: \booktitleExpounding the
Mathematical Seed: a translation of
Bhaskara I on the Mathematical Chapter
of the Aryabha\dtiya, Agathe Keller.
Birkhaüser, Basel, Boston, Berlin (2006),
ISBN 978-3-7643-7299-6 . . . . . . . . . 47--50
Charles Burnett Book Review: \booktitleCampanus of
Novara and Euclid's \booktitleElements,
2 vols, Band 51 (1--2), H. L. L. Busard,
in: Boethius. Franz Steiner-Verlag,
Stuttgart (2005) . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
Laura E. Turner Book Review: \booktitleMathematics and
Social Utopias in France: Olinde
Rodrigues and His Times, Simon Altmann,
Eduardo L. Ortiz (Eds.). American
Mathematical Society, Providence (2005),
ISBN 978-0-8218-3860-0 . . . . . . . . . 52--53
Della D. Fenster Book Review: \booktitleExposition by
Emil Artin: a Selection, vol. 30, M.
Rosen (Ed.), in: History of Mathematics.
American Mathematical Society/London
Mathematical Society, Providence/London
(2006), ISBN 978-0-8218-4172-3 . . . . . 53--56
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Book Review: \booktitleBiographisches
Lexikon in Mathematik promovierter
Personen an deutschen Universitäten und
Technischen Hochschulen WS 1907/08 bis
WS 1944/45, R. Tobies. Erwin Rauner
Verlag, Augsburg (2006), ISBN
3-936905-21-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--57
Gianluigi Oliveri Book Review: \booktitleThe Architecture
of Modern Mathematics: Essays in History
and Philosophy, José Ferreirós, Jeremy
Gray. Oxford University Press, Oxford
(2006), ISBN 978-0-19-856793-6 . . . . . 57--60
Sloan Evans Despeaux and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--79
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Juan Navarro-Loidi and
José Llombart The introduction of logarithms into
Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--101
Deborah Kent \booktitleThe Mathematical Miscellany
and \booktitleThe Cambridge Miscellany
of Mathematics: Closely connected
attempts to introduce research-level
mathematics in America, 1836--1843 . . . 102--122
Irene Polo-Blanco Alicia Boole Stott, a geometer in higher
dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--139
Ronald Calinger Book Review: \booktitleThe Early
Mathematics of Leonhard Euler, C. Edward
Sandifer. The Mathematical Association
of America, Washington, DC (2007), ISBN
0-88385-559-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Christoph J. Scriba Book Review: \booktitleLeonhard Euler.
Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel/Boston/Berlin
(2007), ISBN 3-7643-7538-8 . . . . . . . 142--143
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleEuler at 300. An
appreciation, R. E. Bradley, L. A.
D'Antonio, C. E. Sandifer (Eds.). The
Mathematical Association of America,
Washington, DC (2007), ISBN
978-0-88385-565-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Rüdiger Thiele Book Review: \booktitleEuler and Modern
Science, N. N. Bogolyubov, G. K.
Mikhailov, A. P. Yushkevich (Eds.). The
Mathematical Association of America,
Washington, DC (2007), ISBN
978-0-88385-564-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 144--147
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 148--149
Sloan Evans Despeaux and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--168
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous Kenneth O. May Prize of the
International Commission on the History
of Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--169
Menso Folkerts and
Karin Reich Helmuth Gericke (1909--2007) . . . . . . 170--172
Carlos H. B. Gonçalves An alternative to the Pythagorean rule?
Reevaluating Problem 1 of cuneiform
tablet BM 34 568 . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--189
M. Céu Silva The algebraic content of Bento
Fernandes's \booktitleTratado da arte de
arismetica (1555) . . . . . . . . . . . 190--219
Gregory H. Moore The emergence of open sets, closed sets,
and limit points in analysis and
topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220--241
Norma B. Goethe Modes of representation, working tools,
and the history of mathematics . . . . . 242--247
David Rabouin Book Review: \booktitleVerit\`a
matematiche e forme della natura da
Galileo a Newton, Emilio Sergio. Aracne,
Rome (2006), ISBN 88-548-0626-9 . . . . 248--249
David Bellhouse Book Review: \booktitleDisciplining
Statistics: Demography and Vital
Statistics in France and England,
1830--1885, Libby Schweber. Duke
University Press, Durham and London
(2006), ISBN 0-8223-3814-9 . . . . . . . 249--252
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleLes Théor\`emes de
Noether. Invariance et lois de
conservation au XXe si\`ecle, avec une
traduction de l'article original,
``Invariante Variationsprobleme'', 2nd,
revised edition, Y. Kosmann-Schwarzbach,
L. Meersseman. Éditions de l'École
Polytechnique, Palaiseau (2006), ISBN
2-7302-1138-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--253
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 254--255
Sloan Evans Despeaux and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--272
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Fritz A. Krafft and
Christoph J. Scriba Nikolai Nikolajevich Stuloff
(1914--2006) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--276
Luca Miatello The difference $ 5 1 \over 2 $ in a
problem of rations from the Rhind
mathematical papyrus . . . . . . . . . . 277--284
Ma. Rosa Massa Esteve Symbolic language in early modern
mathematics: the Algebra of Pierre
Hérigone (1580--1643) . . . . . . . . . . 285--301
Luis Manuel Ribeiro Saraiva Mathematics in the \booktitleMemoirs of
the Lisbon Academy of Sciences in the
19th Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--326
Ralf Krömer A German translation of Euler's articles
on the polyhedron formula now available
on the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . 327--328
Curtis Wilson Book Review: \booktitleJean le Rond
d'Alembert, Oeuvres Compl\`etes, Série I,
Traités et mémoires mathématiques,
1736--1756, Volume 7, Précession et
nutation (1749--1752), Michelle
Chapront--Touzé, Jean Souchay (Eds.).
CNRS Éditions, Paris (2006) . . . . . . . 329--332
David E. Rowe Book Review: \booktitleWalther von Dyck
(1856--1934). Mathematik, Technik und
Wissenschaftsorganisation an der TH
München, Ulf Hashagen. Franz Steiner
Verlag, Stuttgart (2003) . . . . . . . . 333--334
Jesper Lützen Book Review: \booktitlePerspectives on
Scandinavian Science in the Early
Twentieth Century, Reinhard
Siegmund-Schultze, Sòrensen (Eds.). The
Norwegian Academy of Sciences and
Letters. Novus Forlag, Oslo (2006), ISBN
978-82-7099-442-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 334--336
Peter M. Neumann Book Review: \booktitleEpisodes in the
History of Modern Algebra, vol. 32,
Jeremy J. Gray, Karen Hunger Parshall
(Eds.), in: History of Mathematics.
American Mathematical Society, London
Mathematical Society, Providence and
London (2007), ISBN 978-0-8218-4343-7 337--338
Marco Panza Book Review: \booktitleIncógnitas,
variables y otros fantasmas matemáticos.
El lenguaje de la variación y la
covariación numéricas, Angel Marín.
Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona
(2006), ISBN 84-9769-173-3 . . . . . . . 338--339
W. H. Donahue Book Review: \booktitleMiscellanea
Kepleriana. Festschrift für Volker Bialas
zum 65. Geburtstag, F. Boockmann, D. A.
Di Liscia, H. Kothmann (Eds.). Dr. Erwin
Rauner Verlag, Augsburg (2005) . . . . . 340--341
Sloan Evans Despeaux and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342--358
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 360--361
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Benno van Dalen Journals under threat: a joint response
from history of science, technology and
medicine editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Derek Thomas Whiteside (1932--2008) . . 4--9
Joe Albree and
Scott H. Brown ``A valuable monument of mathematical
genius'': the \booktitleLadies' Diary
(1704--1840) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--47
Maarten Bullynck Modular arithmetic before C. F. Gauss:
Systematizations and discussions on
remainder problems in 18th-Century
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--72
Jens Hòyrup Book Review: \booktitleFibonacci's De
Practica Geometrie, Barnabas Hughes
(Ed.), in: Sources and Studies in the
History of Mathematics and Physical
Sciences. Springer, New York (2008),
ISBN 978-0-387-72930-5 . . . . . . . . . 73--77
Menso Folkerts Book Review: \booktitleCirca inicium
algorismi. Die Algorismus-Vorlesung von
Nicolaus Matz. Mit dem Faksimile des
Autographen aus der Handschrift D 692
der Nicolaus-Matz-Bibliothek
(Kirchenbibliothek) Michelstadt, Martin
Hellmann (Ed.). Stadt Michelstadt,
Michelstadt (2006) . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79
Jacqueline Stedall Book Review: \booktitle`Magic is no
magic': the wonderful world of Simon
Stevin, J. T. Devreese, G. Vanden
Berghe. WIT Press, Southampton, Boston
(2008), ISBN 978-1-84564-092-7 . . . . . 79--80
Philip Beeley Book Review: \booktitleDal movimento
alla forza. Leibniz: l'infinitesimo tra
logica e metafisica, Raffaele Cirino.
Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (2006),
ISBN 88 498 1593-X . . . . . . . . . . . 80--82
Albert C. Lewis Book Review: \booktitleGraßmann,
Hans-Joachim Petsche. Birkhäuser, Basel,
Boston, Berlin (2006), ISBN
978-3-7643-7257-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 82--85
Todd Timmons Book Review: \booktitleOf the Human
Heart: a Biography of Benjamin Peirce,
Edward R. Hogan. Lehigh University
Press, Bethlehem (2008), ISBN
978-0-934223-93-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
Jesper Lützen Book Review: \booktitleAxiomatik und
Empirie. Eine
wissenschaftstheoriegeschichtliche
Untersuchung zur Mathematischen
Naturphilosophie von Newton bis Neumann
(Axiomatics and empiricism. An
investigation from the point of view of
the history of the theory of science of
mathematical natural philosophy from
Newton through Neumann), Helmut Pulte.
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft,
Darmstadt (2005), ISBN 3-534-15894-6 . . 87--89
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--108
Norma B. Goethe Erratum to ``Modes of representation,
working tools, and the history of
mathematics'' [\booktitleHistoria Math.
\bf 35 (3) (2008) 242--247] . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 110--111
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Javier Docampo Rey Algebraic diagrams in an early
sixteenth-century Catalan manuscript and
their possible sources . . . . . . . . . 113--136
Maarten Bullynck Decimal periods and their tables: a
German research topic (1765--1801) . . . 137--160
Alfonso F. Agnew and
Alexandru Bobe and
Wladimir G. Boskoff and
Bogdan D. Suceava Gheorghe Titeica and the origins of
affine differential geometry . . . . . . 161--170
Hardy Grant What's in a word? Symmetry through the
centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--177
Henrique Leitão Book Review: \booktitleAnálise Histórica
de Livros de Matemática. Notas de Aula,
Gert Schubring. Autores Associados,
Campinas, SP (2003), ISBN 85-7496-061-6 178--179
Edward Sandifer Book Review: \booktitleThe Rise and
Development of the Theory of Series up
to the Early 1820s, Giovanni Ferraro.
Springer, New York (2008), ISBN
978-0-387-73467-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 179--182
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleThe Geometry of
an Art: the History of the Mathematical
Theory of Perspective from Alberti to
Monge, Kirsti Andersen. Springer, New
York (2007) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--183
Sloan Evans Despeaux Book Review: \booktitleMr Hopkins' Men:
Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics
in the 19th Century, Alex D. D. Craik.
Springer, London (2007), ISBN
978-1-84628-790-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 183--185
Tilman Sauer Book Review: \booktitleLa correspondance
entre Henri Poincaré et les physiciens,
chimistes, et ingénieurs. Birkhäuser,
Basel, Boston, Berlin (2007), ISBN
978-3-7643-7136-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 185--188
Rossana Tazzioli Book Review: \booktitleDalla ``moderna
geometria'' alla ``nuova geometria
italiana.'' Viaggiando per Napoli,
Torino e dintorni. Lettere di: Sannia,
Segre, Peano, Castelnuovo, D'Ovidio, Del
Pezzo, Pascal e altri a Federico Amodeo.
By F. Palladino and N. Palladino, with
the collaboration of F. S. Tortoriello
(Eds.). Firenze (Leo S. Olschki). 2006.
ISBN 88-222-5529-1. lx, 570 pp. EUR 60 188--189
Gerhard Heinzmann Book Review: \booktitleOskar Becker und
die Philosophie der Mathematik, Volker
Peckhaus (Ed.). Wilhelm Fink Verlag,
München (2005), 352, ISBN 3-7705-4126-X 189--191
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--210
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 211--212
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Karine Chemla On mathematical problems as historically
determined artifacts: Reflections
inspired by sources from ancient China 213--246
Alex D. D. Craik A proportional view: the mathematics of
James Glenie (1750--1817) . . . . . . . 247--272
Laura Martini Book Review: \booktitleA History of
Abstract Algebra, Israel Kleiner.
Birkhäuser, Boston (2007), ISBN
978-0-8176-4684-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 273--274
John J. Watkins Book Review: \booktitleThe Mathematical
Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring
and the Colorful Life of Its Creators,
Alexander Soifer. Springer Science +
Business Media, LLC, New York (2009),
ISBN 978-0-387-74640-1 . . . . . . . . . 275--277
Jens Hòyrup Book Review: \booktitleArithmetische und
algebraische Schriften der frühen
Neuzeit, vol. 17, Rainer Gebhardt (Ed.),
in: Schriften des Adam-Ries-Bundes
Annaberg-Buchholz. Adam-Ries-Bund,
Annaberg-Buchholz (2005), ISBN
3-930430-68-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278--279
Marco Panza Book Review: \booktitleJohn Wallis. Una
vita per un progetto, Luigi Maier\`u.
Rubettino Editore, Soveria Mannelli
(2007), ISBN 978-88-498-1904-5 . . . . . 279--281
Robert E. Bradley Book Review: \booktitleLeonhard Euler $
\ll $ incomparable géom\`etre$ g g $,
Philippe Henry. Editions Médicine et
Hygi\`ene, Geneva (2007), ISBN
978-2-88049-241-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 281--283
Amy Shell-Gellasch Book Review: \booktitleTools of American
Mathematics Teaching, 1800--2000, Peggy
Aldrich Kidwell, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings,
David Lindsay Roberts. Johns Hopkins
University Press, Baltimore (2008), ISBN
978-0-8018-8814-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 283--285
Gert Schubring Book Review: \booktitleStuttgarter
Mathematiker: Geschichte der Mathematik
an der Universität Stuttgart von 1829 bis
1945 in Biographien, Karl-Heinz Böttcher,
Bertram Maurer. Universität Stuttgart,
Stuttgart (2008), ISBN 978-3-926269-34-8 285--287
Francine F. Abeles Book Review: \booktitleLewis Carroll in
Numberland. His Fantastical Mathematical
Logical Life, Robin Wilson. Norton, New
York/London (2008), ISBN
978-0-393-06027-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 287--289
Thomas Archibald Book Review: \booktitleItalian
Mathematics Between the Two World Wars,
Angelo Guerraggio, Pietro Nastasi.
Birkhäuser, Basel (2006), ISBN
978-3-7643-6555-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290
Patricia R. Allaire Book Review: \booktitleHands on History:
a Resource for Teaching Mathematics, Amy
Shell-Gellasch (Ed.). The Mathematical
Association of America, Washington, DC
(2007), ISBN 978-0-88385-182-1 . . . . . 291--292
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--313
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Corrigendum to ``Derek Thomas Whiteside
(1932--2008)'' [\booktitleHistoria Math.
\bf 36 (1) (2009) 4--9] . . . . . . . . 314--314
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 315--316
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Menso Folkerts Hubertus L. L. Busard: (1923--2007) . . 317--320
Gregg De Young Diagrams in ancient Egyptian geometry:
Survey and assessment . . . . . . . . . 321--373
Jesper Lützen Why was Wantzel overlooked for a
century? The changing importance of an
impossibility result . . . . . . . . . . 374--394
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell Computing devices, mathematics education
and mathematics: Sexton's omnimetre in
its time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--404
Aleksandar Nikoli\'c The story of majorizability as
Karamata's condition of convergence for
Abel summable series . . . . . . . . . . 405--419
Craig G. Fraser Sufficient conditions, fields and the
calculus of variations . . . . . . . . . 420--427
Duncan J. Melville Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: a Social
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--433
Victor J. Katz Mathematics Emerging: a Sourcebook
1540--1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433--436
Robert E. Bradley Book Review: \booktitleLacroix and the
Calculus. By João Caramalho Domingues.
Basel (Birkhäuser). 2008. ISBN
978-3-7643-8637-5. 468 pp. US\$169.00} 437--439
Josipa G. Petruni\'c Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy . . . . 439--444
Della D. Fenster Plato's Ghost: the Modernist
Transformation of Mathematics . . . . . 444--447
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--470
Anonymous Notes on contributors (2pp) . . . . . . 471--472
Anonymous Cover 2 (C2): Editorial Board . . . . . ??
June Barrow-Green and
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Tyge Burgess Publisher's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--3
Anonymous The sixth award of the Kenneth O. May
Medal and Prize . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--7
Annette B. Vogt Boris Abramovich Rosenfeld: (1917--2008) 8--10
Leon Cooper A new interpretation of Problem 10 of
the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus . . . . 11--27
Satyanad Kichenassamy Brahmagupta's derivation of the area of
a cyclic quadrilateral . . . . . . . . . 28--61
Jiang-Ping Jeff Chen The evolution of transformation media in
spherical trigonometry in 17th- and
18th-Century China, and its relation to
``Western learning'' . . . . . . . . . . 62--109
Craig G. Fraser Book Review: \booktitleThe Princeton
Companion to Mathematics. Edited by
Timothy Gowers. Associate Editors June
Barrow-Green and Imre Leader. Princeton
(Princeton University Press). 2008. ISBN
978-0-691-11880-2. 1008 pp. \$99.00} . . 110--112
Hardy Grant Book Review: \booktitleThe Oxford
Handbook of the History of Mathematics.
Edited by Eleanor Robson and Jacqueline
Stedall. Oxford (Oxford University
Press). 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-921312-2.
vii + 918 pp. \pounds 85.00 . . . . . . 112--118
Glen Van Brummelen Aspects of the Astrolabe:
`Architectonica Ratio' in Tenth- and
Eleventh-century Europe . . . . . . . . 118--120
Lawrence D'Antonio Book Review: \booktitleThe St.
Petersburg School of Number Theory. By
B. N. Delone. Translated from the
Russian by Robert Burns. History of
Mathematics, vol. 26. Providence/London
(American Mathematical Society/London
Mathematical Society). 2005. ISBN
978-0-8218-3457-2. xv + 278 pp.
US\$62.00}. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--124
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings Book Review: \booktitlePioneering Women
in American Mathematics: the Pre-1940
PhD's. By Judy Green and Jeanne LaDuke.
Providence, Rhode Island (American
Mathematical Society). 2009. ISBN
0-8218-4376-1. xviii + 350 pp.
US\$79.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--128
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--153
Anonymous Notes on contributors (2pp) . . . . . . 154--155
Anonymous IFC: Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous The Montucla Prize, 2009 . . . . . . . . 157--158
Benno van Dalen Edward S. Kennedy: 1912--2009 . . . . . 159--163
June Barrow-Green The dramatic episode of Sundman . . . . 164--203
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Sets versus trial sequences, Hausdorff
versus von Mises: ``Pure'' mathematics
prevails in the foundations of
probability around 1920 . . . . . . . . 204--241
Ulf Hashagen Die Habilitation von John von Neumann an
der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in
Berlin: Urteile über einen
ungarisch-jüdischen Mathematiker in
Deutschland im Jahr 1927. (German) [The
habilitation of John von Neumann at the
Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin:
Judgments about a Hungarian Jewish
Mathematician in Germany in 1927] . . . 242--280
Alexei Volkov Commentaries upon commentaries: the
translation of the \booktitleJiu zhang
suan shu by Karine Chemla and Guo
Shuchun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--301
Miquel Forcada Book Review: \booktitleLes mathématiques
infinitésimales du IXe au XIe si\`ecle.
Volume V: Ibn al-Haytham, Astronomie,
géométrie sphérique et trigonométrie. By
Roshdi Rashed. London (Al-Furqan Islamic
Heritage Foundation). 2006. ISBN
1-905122-09-8, vol. 5. xiv, 972, v pp.
No price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--305
W. R. Laird Mathématiques et théorie du mouvement
(XIVe --- XVIe si\`ecles) . . . . . . . 305--308
Andrew Perry Book Review: \booktitleMathematical
Works Printed in the Americas,
1554--1700. By Bruce Stanley Burdick.
Baltimore (The Johns Hopkins University
Press). 2009. ISBN 978-0-8018-8823-6.
392 pp. \$55.00} . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--309
Tilman Sauer Ludwig Boltzmann (1844--1906): Zum
hundertsten Todestag [hundredth
anniversary of his death] . . . . . . . 310--311
Della D. Fenster and
Joachim Schwermer Emil Artin und Helmut Hasse: Die
Korrespondenz 1923--1934 . . . . . . . . 312--314
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleErhabene Welten:
das Leben Rolf Nevanlinnas. By Olli
Lehto. Translated from Finnish by M.
Stern. Boston (Birkhäuser). 2008. ISBN
978-7643-7701-4. ix + 299 pp. No price
given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314--316
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--338
Anonymous Notes on contributors (2pp) . . . . . . 339--340
Anonymous IFC: Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . ??
Sébastien Maronne Contexts, emergence and issues of
Cartesian geometry: In honour of Henk
Bos's 70th birthday . . . . . . . . . . 341--344
Jan P. Hogendijk The scholar and the fencing master: the
exchanges between Joseph Justus Scaliger
and Ludolph van Ceulen on the circle
quadrature (1594--1596) . . . . . . . . 345--375
Liesbeth C. de Wreede A dialogue on the use of arithmetic in
geometry: Van Ceulen's and Snellius's
\booktitleFundamenta Arithmetica et
Geometrica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376--402
Paolo Mancosu and
Andrew Arana Descartes and the cylindrical helix . . 403--427
David Rabouin What Descartes knew of mathematics in
1628 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428--459
Sébastien Maronne The ovals in the \booktitleExcerpta
Mathematica and the origins of
Descartes' method of normals . . . . . . 460--484
Erik-Jan Bos Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia and
Descartes' letters (1650--1665) . . . . 485--502
Dominique Descotes An unknown mathematical manuscript by
Blaise Pascal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503--534
Massimo Galuzzi Newton's attempt to construct a unitary
view of mathematics . . . . . . . . . . 535--562
Anonymous Notes on contributors (2pp) . . . . . . 563--564
Anonymous IFC: Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . ??
Yibao Xu and
Fengxian Xu Chen Meidong: (1942--2008) . . . . . . . 565--567
Ramon Masi\`a-Fornos A ``lacuna'' in Proposition 9 of
Archimedes' \booktitleOn the Sphere and
the Cylinder, Book I . . . . . . . . . . 568--578
Ken Saito and
Nathan Sidoli The function of diorism in ancient Greek
analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579--614
Barnabas Hughes An early abridgement of Fibonacci's De
practica geometrie . . . . . . . . . . . 615--640
Reinhard Laubenbacher and
David Pengelley ``Voici ce que j'ai trouvé:'' Sophie
Germain's grand plan to prove Fermat's
\booktitleLast Theorem . . . . . . . . . 641--692
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze On a missed opportunity for
collaboration between historians and
mathematicians: a biographical avalanche
triggered by Professor Ioan James, FRS. 693--707
Piedad Yuste Book Review: \booktitleTablettes
Mathématiques de Nippur. By Christine
Proust. Istanbul (Institut Francais
d'Etudes Anatoliennes Georges Dumézil).
Paris (De Boccard Ed). 2007. ISBN
978-2-906053-92-2. 356, xlix pp. No
price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708--710
Wolfgang Lef\`evre Book Review: \booktitleMechanisches
Memorieren und Chiffrieren um 1430:
Johannes Fontanas \booktitleTractatus de
instrumentis artis memorie. Edited by H.
Kranz and W. Oberschelp. Stuttgart
(Franz Steiner Verlag). 2007. ISBN
978-3-515-09296-8. 167 pp. 38.00 EUR . . 710--712
Sébastien Maronne Book Review: \booktitleMathématiciens
français du XVIIe si\`ecle. Descartes,
Fermat, Pascal. Edited by Michel
Serfati, and Dominique Descotes.
Clermont-Ferrand (Presses Universitaires
Blaise Pascal). 2008. ISBN
978-2-84516-354-6. 284 pp. 20 EUR . . . 712--714
I. Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleHermann Graßmann.
Biography. By Hans-Joachim Petsche.
Translated by Mark Minnes. Basel
(Birkhäuser). 2009. ISBN
978-3-7643-8859-1. xx + 306 pp. No price
stated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714--716
Eugene Seneta Book Review: \booktitleMathematicians
Fleeing from Nazi Germany. Individual
Fates and Global Impact. By Reinhard
Siegmund-Schultze. Princeton and Oxford
(Princeton University Press). 2009. ISBN
978-0-691-14041-4. xxv + 471 pp.
US\$49.50} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716--722
Ulf Hashagen Erratum to ``Die Habilitation von John
von Neumann an der
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin:
Urteile über einen ungarisch-jüdischen
Mathematiker in Deutschland im Jahr
1927'' [\booktitleHistoria Mathematica
\bf 37 (2) (2010) 242--280] [MR2609069] 723--723
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724--751
Anonymous Notes on contributors (2pp) . . . . . . 752--753
Anonymous IFC: Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jia-Ming Ying The \booktitleKujang sulhae: Nam
Py\vong-Gil's reinterpretation of the
mathematical methods of the Book Review:
\booktitleJiuzhang suanshu . . . . . . . 1--27
Yannis Thomaidis Some remarks on the meaning of equality
in Diophantos's Arithmetica . . . . . . 28--41
Marco Panza Rethinking geometrical exactness . . . . 42--95
Aldo Brigaglia and
Simonetta Di Sieno The Luigi Cremona Archive of the Mazzini
Institute of Genoa . . . . . . . . . . . 96--110
Clemency Montelle `Having the Answers': Writing the
History of Mathematics in India . . . . 111--122
James J. Tattersall Book Review: \booktitleThomas Harriot's
Doctrine of Triangular Numbers: the
`Magisteria Magna'. Edited by Janet
Beery and Jacqueline Stedall. Zürich
(European Mathematical Society). 2008.
ISBN 978-3-03719-059-3. 144 pages. EUR
64.00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--125
Hardy Grant Book Review: \booktitleDuel at Dawn:
Heroes, Martyrs and the Rise of Modern
Mathematics. By Amir Alexander.
Cambridge, Mass. and London (Harvard
University Press). 2010. ISBN
978-0-674-04661-0. 307 pp. US\$28.95} 125--131
Melanie Bayley Book Review: \booktitleFlatland by Edwin
A. Abbott: an Edition with Notes and
Commentary. By William F. Lindgren and
Thomas F. Banchoff. New York (Cambridge
University Press). 2010. ISBN
978-0-521-75994-6. ix + 294. \$14.00} 131--135
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--159
Anonymous Notes on contributors (2pp) . . . . . . 160--161
Anonymous IFC: Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . ??
Joseph F. Grcar How ordinary elimination became Gaussian
elimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--218
Kirsti Andersen One of Berkeley's arguments on
compensating errors in the calculus . . 219--231
Luigi Ingaliso Mario Pieri's address at the University
of Catania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--247
Paula Findlen Calculations of faith: mathematics,
philosophy, and sanctity in 18th-century
Italy (new work on Maria Gaetana Agnesi) 248--291
Uffe Thomas Jankvist A century of mathematics education:
ICMI's first hundred years . . . . . . . 292--302
Victor J. Katz Book Review: \booktitle``Dig Where You
Stand'': Proceedings of a Conference on
On-going Research in the History of
Mathematics Education, Gardabaer,
Iceland, June 20--24, 2009. Edited by
Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Fulvia Furinghetti
and Gert Schubring. Reykjavik
(University of Iceland). 2009. ISBN
978-9979-793-99-1. vi + 254 pp. No price
given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--308
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309--333
Anonymous Notes on contributors (1pp) . . . . . . 334--334
Anonymous IFC: Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . ??
John Steele John P. Britton (1939--2010) . . . . . . 335--337
Bo Göran Johansson Cube root extraction in medieval
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338--367
Michael J. Barany God, King, and geometry: revisiting the
introduction to Cauchy's \booktitleCours
d'analyse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368--388
Caroline Ehrhardt A quarrel between Joseph Liouville and
Guillaume Libri at the French Academy of
Sciences in the middle of the Nineteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--414
Victor Pambuccian and
Tudor Zamfirescu Paolo Pizzetti: the forgotten originator
of triangle comparison geometry . . . . 415--422
Toke L. Knudsen Book Review:
\booktitleGa\.nitasarakaumud\=\i: the
Moonlight of the Essence of Mathematics
by \dThakkura Pheru. Edited with
Introduction, Translation, and
Mathematical Commentary by SaKHYa. New
Delhi (Manohar). 2009. ISBN
978-81-7304-809-8. viii + 278 pp. No
price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423--425
Giovanni Ferraro Book Review: \booktitleLa construction
tractionnelle des équations
différentielles. By D. Tourn\`es. Paris
(Albert Blanchard). 2009. ISBN
978-2-85367-247-4. viii, 406 pp. No
price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425--428
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429--452
Anonymous Notes on contributors (2pp) . . . . . . 453--453
Anonymous IFC: Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . ??
Leon Cooper Did Egyptian scribes have an algorithmic
means for determining the circumference
of a circle? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--484
Detlef D. Spalt Welche Funktionsbegriffe gab Leonhard
Euler?. (German) [Which function terms
did Leonhard Euler give?] . . . . . . . 485--505
Alan Gluchoff Artillerymen and mathematicians: Forest
Ray Moulton and changes in American
exterior ballistics, 1885--1934 . . . . 506--547
Fabio Acerbi Completing Diophantus, \booktitleDe
polygonis numeris, prop. 5 . . . . . . . 548--560
Ivo Schneider Book Review: \booktitleKosmos und Zahl
--- Beiträge zur Mathematik- und
Astronomiegeschichte, zu Alexander von
Humboldt und Leibniz. Edited by Hartmut
Hecht, Regina Mikosch, Ingo Schwarz,
Harald Siebert, and Romy Werther.
Boethius, vol. 58. Stuttgart (Steiner).
2008. ISBN 978-3-515-09176-3. 510 pp. 72
EUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561--563
Jean Dhombres Book Review: \booktitleLe retour du
réfoulé. Der Wiederaufstieg der
synthetischen Methode an der École
Polytechnique. By Gert Schubring.
Augsburg (Dr Erwin Rauner Verlag). 2004.
ISBN 3-936905-07-X. [10], 150 pp. No
price given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563--564
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565--589
Anonymous Notes on contributors (2pp) . . . . . . 590--590
Anonymous IFC: Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . ??
Nathan Sidoli and
Ken Saito Comparative analysis in Greek geometry 1--33
Dominique Raynaud Abu al-Wafa' Latinus? A study of method 34--83
Rolf Nossum Emigration of mathematicians from
outside German-speaking academia
1933--1963, supported by the Society for
the Protection of Science and Learning 84--104
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleEléments d'une
biographie de l'espace projectif. By
Lise Bioesmat-Martagon. Collection
Histoires de géométries. Nancy (Presses
Universitaires de Nancy). 2010. ISBN
978-2-8143-0032-3. 315 pp. 25 EUR . . . 105--106
Massimo Galuzzi Book Review: \booktitleGerolamo
Saccheri: Euclide vendicato da ogni neo.
Edited by Vincenzo De Risi. 2 vols. Pisa
(Edizioni della Normale). 2011. ISBN
978-88-7642-404-5. 148 + 252 pp. 40 EUR 107--108
Henry Zepeda Book Review: \booktitleDefending
Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the
Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical
History. By Robert Goulding. Archimedes:
New Studies in the History and
Philosophy of Science and Technology
vol. 25. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London,
New York (Springer). 2010. ISBN
978-90-481-3541-7. xx + 201 pp. . . . . 109--111
Volker R. Remmert Book Review: \booktitleGuglielmo Libri,
matematico e storico della matematica.
L'irresitibile ascesa dall'Ateneo pisano
all'Institut de France. By Andrea Del
Centina and Alessandra Fiocca. Florence
(Olschki). 2010. ISBN 978-88-222-6003-1.
xxii + 342 pp. + CD-ROM. 39 EUR . . . . 111--113
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--139
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Anonymous IFC: Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . ??
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Hans Wußing (1927--2011) and the blooming
of the history of mathematics and
sciences in the German Democratic
Republic --- a biographical essay . . . 143--173
Alex D. D. Craik A forgotten British analyst: Nicolas
Vilant (1737--1807) . . . . . . . . . . 174--205
R. P. Burn Another theorem of Cauchy which `admits
exceptions' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--210
Peter M. Neumann The editors and editions of the writings
of Évariste Galois . . . . . . . . . . . 211--221
Nathan Camillo Sidoli Book Review: \booktitleTenbin no
Majutsushi: Arukimedesu no Sugaku
(Sorcerer of the Scales: Archimedes'
Mathematics). By Eiji Hayashi and Ken
Saito. Tokyo (Kyoritsu Shuppan). 2009.
ISBN 978-4-320-01910-2. x + 249 pp. + 8
color plates. \yen 3300 . . . . . . . . 222--224
Daniele Cozzoli Book Review: \booktitle``L'opere
stupende dell'arti pi\`u ingegnose.'' La
recezione degli Pneumatiká di Erone
Alessandrino nella cultura italiana del
Cinquecento. By Oreste Trabucco. Firenze
(Olschki). 2010. ISBN 978-88-222-5990-5.
184 pp. 20 EUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--226
Jiri Hudecek Book Review: \booktitleThe Chinese Roots
of Linear Algebra. By Roger Hart.
Baltimore, (Johns Hopkins University
Press). 2011. ISBN 978-0-8018-9755-9.
xiii + 286 pp. US\$65 (hardcover)} . . . 226--231
Patti W. Hunter Book Review: \booktitleHow to Read
Historical Mathematics. By Benjamin
Wardhaugh. Princeton and Oxford
(Princeton University Press). 2010. ISBN
978-0-691-14014-8. 113 pp. US\$23.95} 232--233
Robert E. Bradley Book Review: \booktitleRoutes of
Learning: Highways, Pathways and Byways
in the History of Mathematics. By Ivor
Grattan-Guinness. Baltimore (The Johns
Hopkins University Press). 2009. xii +
372 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--236
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--262
Anonymous Notes on contributors (2pp) . . . . . . 263--264
Anonymous IFC: Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jacqueline Stedall John Wallis and the French: his quarrels
with Fermat, Pascal, Dulaurens, and
Descartes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265--279
Bruce J. Petrie Leonhard Euler's use and understanding
of mathematical transcendence . . . . . 280--291
Judit Abardia and
Agustí Reventós and
Carlos J. Rodríguez What did Gauss read in the Appendix? . . 292--323
Karine Chemla The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia,
China, India, and Islam. A sourcebook 324--334
Andrea Bréard Book Review: \booktitleLe calendrier
chinois: structure et calculs (104 av.
J.-C.-1644). Indétermination céleste et
réforme permanente. La construction
chinoise officielle du temps quotidien
discret \`a partir d'un temps
mathématique caché, linéaire et continu. By
Jean-Claude Martzloff. Paris (Honoré
Champion). 2009. ISBN 978-2-7453-1911-1.
453 pp. 50 EUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--338
Thomas Drucker Book Review: \booktitleThe Logic
Pamphlets of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
and Related Pieces. Edited by Francine
F. Abeles. New York (Lewis Carroll
Society of North America). 2010. ISBN
978-0-930326-25-8. xx + 271 pp. . . . . 338--341
Joseph W. Dauben Book Review: \booktitleNaming Infinity.
A True Story of Religious Mysticism and
Mathematical Creativity. By Loren Graham
and Jean-Michel Kantor. Cambridge (The
Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press). 2009. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--346
Gert Schubring Book Review: \booktitleMathematicians at
War. Volterra and his French colleagues
in World War I. By Laurent Mazliak and
Rossana Tazzioli. Dordrecht, Heidelberg,
London, New York (Springer). 2009. ISBN
978-90-481-2739-9. ix + 194 p. 106,95
EUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--350
Eva Kaufholz-Soldat Book Review: \booktitle``Morgen möchte
ich wieder 100 herrliche Sachen
ausrechnen.'' Iris Runge bei Osram und
Telefunken. By Renate Tobies. Boethius,
vol. 61. Stuttgart (Steiner). 2010. ISBN
978-3-515-09638-6. 412 pp. 72 EUR . . . 351--353
Alberto Cogliati Book Review: \booktitleThe Noether
Theorems. Invariance and Conservation
Laws in the Twentieth Century. By Yvette
Kosmann-Schwarzbach. Translated by
Bertram E. Schwarzbach. Dordrecht,
Heidelberg, London, New York (Springer).
2011. ISBN 978-0-387-87868-3. xiii + 205
p. 8 illus.; 83,15 EUR . . . . . . . . . 353--356
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--384
Anonymous Notes on contributors (2pp) . . . . . . 385--386
Anonymous IFC: Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . ??
Satyanad Kichenassamy Brahmagupta's propositions on the
perpendiculars of cyclic quadrilaterals 387--404
Viktor Blåsjö The rectification of quadratures as a
central foundational problem for the
early Leibnizian calculus . . . . . . . 405--431
Alp Eden and
Gürol Irzik German mathematicians in exile in
Turkey: Richard von Mises, William
Prager, Hilda Geiringer, and their
impact on Turkish mathematics . . . . . 432--459
Jeffrey A. Oaks Book Review: \booktitleL'Eredit
arabo-islamica nelle scienze e nelle
arti del calcolodell'Europa medievale
(The Arabic-Islamic heritage in the
sciences and arts of calculation in
Medieval Europe). By Nadia Ambrosetti.
Milano (Edizioni Universitarie di
Lettere Economia Diritto). 2008. ISBN
978-88-7916-388-0. 407 pp. 37 EUR . . . 460--462
Menso Folkerts Book Review: \booktitleMathématiques et
connaissance du monde réel avant Galilée.
Edited by Sabine Rommeveaux. Montreuil
(Omnisciene). 2010. ISBN
978-2-916097-26-8. 350 pp. 45. EUR . . . 463--465
David Bellhouse Book Review: \booktitleA History of the
Central Limit Theorem: From Classical to
Modern Probability Theory. By Hans
Fischer. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London,
New York (Springer). 2010. ISBN
978-0-387-87856-0. 418 pp. . . . . . . . 465--467
Hans Niels Jahnke Book Review: \booktitleCauchy's Cours
d'analyse. An Annotated Translation. By
Robert E. Bradley, and C. Edward
Sandifer. Sources and Studies in the
History of Mathematics and Physical
Sciences. Dordrecht (Springer). 2009 . . 467--469
Alan Gluchoff Book Review: \booktitleThe History and
Development of Nomography. By H. A.
Evesham. (Docent Press). 2011 (original
copyright 1982). 267 pp., paperback . . 469--475
Colin McLarty Book Review: \booktitleFrom a
Geometrical Point of View: a Study of
the History and Philosophy of Category
Theory. By Jean-Pierre Marquis. Logic,
Epistemology, and the Unity of Science.
(Springer). 2010. ISBN
978-90-481-8117-9. 320 pp. \$199} . . . 475--479
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480--503
Anonymous Notes on contributors (2pp) . . . . . . 504--505
Anonymous IFC: Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . ??
Tom Archibald and
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Tina Su-lyn Lim and
Donald B. Wagner The Grand Astrologer's platform and
ramp: Four problems in solid geometry
from Wang Xiaotong's `Continuation of
ancient mathematics' (7th Century AD) 3--35
Laura E. Turner The Mittag-Leffler Theorem: the origin,
evolution, and reception of a
mathematical result, 1876--1884 . . . . 36--83
Ivo Schneider Book Review: \booktitleThe Archimedes
Palimpsest. Edited in two volumes by
Reviel Netz, William Noel, Natalia
Tchernetska, and Nigel Wilson. Volume 1:
Catalogue and Commentary; volume 2:
Images and Transcriptions. Cambridge
(Cambridge University Press). 2011. ISBN
978-1-107-01684-2, Price: \pounds150
(\$215)} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--89
Sandro Caparrini Book Review: \booktitleLa via delle
acque (1550--1700): Appropriazione delle
arti e trasformazione delle matematiche,
Cesare S. Maffioli. Olschki, Firenze
(2010), ISBN: 978-88-222-6008-6 . . . . 89--91
Nathan Sidoli Book Review: \booktitleA Survey of the
Almagest. Springer, New York (2010),
ISBN: 978-0-387-84825-9 . . . . . . . . 92--93
Catherine Goldstein Book Review: \booktitle\'Etienne Bézout
(1730--1783) Mathématicien des
Lumi\`eres, Liliane Alfonsi.
L'Harmattan, Paris (2011), ISBN:
978-2-296-56553-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--124
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 125--125
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Jean Christianidis and
Jeffrey Oaks Practicing algebra in late antiquity:
the problem-solving of Diophantus of
Alexandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--163
Sabine Rommevaux A treatise on proportion in the
tradition of Thomas Bradwardine: the
\booktitleDe proportionibus libri duo
(1528) of Jean Fernel . . . . . . . . . 164--182
Dirk Schlimm The correspondence between Moritz Pasch
and Felix Klein . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--202
Hardy Grant Book Review: \booktitleHidden Harmonies:
the Lives and Times of the Pythagorean
Theorem, Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan.
Bloomsbury Press, New York, Berlin,
London, and Sydney (2011), ISBN:
978-1-59691-522-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 203--205
Gert Schubring Book Review: \booktitleScienza,
Geometria, Geometrie. Un percorso
storico-didattico [Science, Geometry,
Geometries. A historical-educational
itinerary], Luigi Maierú. Rubbettino
Editore, Soveria Mannelli (2008), ISBN:
978-88-498-2156-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 205--206
Sébastien Gauthier Book Review: \booktitleRegards sur les
mathématiques en France entre les deux
guerres. Revue d'histoire des sciences
\bf 62 (1). Paris (Armand Colin).
January-June 2009. ISBN
978-2-200-92598-7. 342 pp. 45 EUR . . . 206--209
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--231
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 232--233
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
S. Mohammad Mozaffari Wabkanawi's prediction and calculations
of the annular solar eclipse of 30
January 1283 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--261
Michela Malpangotto L'univers auquel s'est confronté
Copernic: La sph\`ere de Mercure dans
les \booktitleTheoricae novae planetarum
de Georg Peurbach . . . . . . . . . . . 262--308
Franka Miriam Brueckler and
Vladimir Stilinovi\'c Teaching arithmetic in the Habsburg
Empire at the end of the 18th Century
--- a textbook example . . . . . . . . . 309--323
James Evans Book Review: \booktitleThe Mathematics
of the Heavens and the Earth: the Early
History of Trigonometry, Glen Van
Brummelen. Princeton University Press,
Princeton and Oxford (2009), ISBN:
978-0-691-12973-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 324--325
Sylvia Nickerson Book Review: \booktitleTurbulent Times
in Mathematics. The Life of J. C. Fields
and the History of the Fields Medal,
Elaine McKinnon Riehm, Frances Hoffman.
American Mathematical Society and The
Fields Institute, Providence, Rhode
Island and Toronto, Ontario (2011),
ISBN: 978-0-8218-6914-7 . . . . . . . . 325--329
Ivor Grattan-Guinness Book Review: \booktitleWolfgang
Sartorius von Waltershausen, Gaußzum
Gedächtniss: Biographie Carl Friedrich
Gauß, Leipzig 1856. Mit dem von Karin
Reich verfassten Essay
``\booktitleWolfgang Sartorius von
Waltershausen (1809--1876)'', Karin
Reich (Ed.). Edition Am Gutenbergplatz,
Leipzig (2012), ISBN: 978-3-937219-57-8 329--330
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--350
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 351--352
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Craig Fraser Awarding of the May Prizes for 2013 . . 353--356
Elena Ausejo Montucla Prize 2013 . . . . . . . . . . 357--358
Valérie Debuiche Perspective in Leibniz's invention of
Characteristica Geometrica : the problem
of Desargues' influence . . . . . . . . 359--385
Alex D. D. Craik Polylogarithms, functional equations and
more: the elusive essays of William
Spence (1777--1815) . . . . . . . . . . 386--422
Lukas Verburgt Robert Leslie Ellis's work on philosophy
of science and the foundations of
probability theory . . . . . . . . . . . 423--454
Kathryn James Book Review: \booktitleRobert Recorde:
the Life and Times of a Tudor
Mathematician, Gareth Roberts, Fenny
Smith (Eds.). University of Wales Press,
distributed by University of Chicago
Press, Swansea (2012), ISBN:
978-0-7083-2526-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 455--457
Eva Kaufholz-Soldat Book Review: \booktitleRemembering Sofya
Kovalevskaya, Mich\`ele Audin. Springer,
London (2011), ISBN: 978-0-85729-928-4 458--460
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461--480
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 481--482
Tom Archibald and
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Victor J. Katz Marcia Ascher (23 April 1935--11 June
2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--5
Philip Beeley Christoph J. Scriba (6 October 1929--26
July 2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--12
Nathan Sidoli Mathematical tables in Ptolemy's
\booktitleAlmagest . . . . . . . . . . . 13--37
Mónica Blanco Thomas Simpson: Weaving fluxions in
18th-century London . . . . . . . . . . 38--81
I. Grattan-Guinness From anomaly to fundament: Louis
Poinsot's theories of the couple in
mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--102
Christian Marinus Taisbak Cube roots of integers. A conjecture
about Heron's method in
\booktitleMetrika III. 20 . . . . . . . 103--106
Arianna Borrelli Book Review: \booktitleLe destin
douloureux de Walther Ritz (1878--1909),
physicien théoricien de génie, Jean-Claude
Pont (Ed.). Vallesia, Archive de l'État
du Valais, Sion (2012), ISBN
978-2-9700636-5-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 107--110
Sébastien Maronne Book Review: \booktitleLe sezione
coniche nel Seicento, Luigi Maier\`u.
Rubbettino Editore, Soveria Mannelli
(2009), ISBN 978-88-498-2461-2 . . . . . 110--112
Ralf Krömer Book Review: \booktitleJacques Feldbau,
Topologe. Das Schicksal eines jüdischen
Mathematikers (1914--1945), Mich\`ele
Audin, in: Mathematik im Kontext.
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012),
ISBN 978-3-642-25803-9 . . . . . . . . . 112--115
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--136
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 137--138
Rosanna Cretney The origins of Euler's early work on
continued fractions . . . . . . . . . . 139--156
Henrik Kragh Sòrensen Confluences of agendas: Emigrant
mathematicians in transit in Denmark,
1933--1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--187
Lydia Patton Hilbert's objectivity . . . . . . . . . 188--203
David Aubin Book Review: ``\booktitlePrinciples of
Mechanics that are Susceptible of
Application to Society'': an unpublished
notebook of Adolphe Quetelet at the root
of his social physics . . . . . . . . . 204--223
Daniel S. Alexander Book Review: \booktitleFatou, Julia,
Montel: the Great Prize of Mathematical
Sciences of 1918, and beyond, vol. 2014,
Mich\`elexunbr Audin, in: Lecture Notes
in Mathematics, History of Mathematics
Subseries. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg
(2011), ISBN 978-3-642-17853-5 . . . . . 224--232
Menso Folkerts Book Review: \booktitleArchimede Latino.
Iacopo da San Cassiano e il corpus
Archimedeo alla met\`a del quattrocento.
Con edizione della Circuli dimensio $e$
della Quadratura parabolae, Paolo
d'Alessandro, Pier Daniele Napolitani
(Eds.), in: Sciences et savoirs. Les
Belles Lettres, Paris (2012), ISBN
978-2-251-22001-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 233--235
Alexander Herbst Book Review: \booktitleGottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz: Die mathematischen
Zeitschriftenartikel. Edited and
translated by Heinz-Jürgen Heß and
Malte-Ludolf Babin. Hildesheim (Georg
Olms Verlag). 2011. ISBN
978-3-487-14534-1. 547 pp. 1 CD. 74 EUR. 235--237
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--257
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 258--259
Jacqueline Feke Meta-mathematical rhetoric: Hero and
Ptolemy against the philosophers . . . . 261--276
Martin Mattmüller The difficult birth of stochastics:
Jacob Bernoulli's \booktitleArs
Conjectandi (1713) . . . . . . . . . . . 277--290
Alberto Cogliati Early history of infinite continuous
groups, 1883--1898 . . . . . . . . . . . 291--332
Hél\`ene Gispert Book Review: \booktitleCharles-Ange
Laisant. Itinéraires et engagements d'un
mathématicien de la Troisi\`eme
République, Jérôme Auvinet. Hermann, Paris
(2013), ISBN: 978-2-7056-8697-0 . . . . 333--337
Tilman Sauer Book Review: \booktitleArnold
Sommerfeld. Atomphysiker und Kulturbote
1868-1951. Eine Biografie, vol. 29,
Michael Eckert, in: \booktitleDeutsches
Museum. Abhandlungen und Berichte Neue
Folge. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen
(2013), ISBN: 978-3-8353-1206-7 . . . . 338--341
Karine Chemla Translated into German by Klaus Volkert
as \booktitleCantor und die Franzosen.
Mathematik, Philosophie und das
Unendliche Mathematik im Kontext. Berlin
(Springer). 2011. ISBN
978-3-642-14868-2. 230 pp. 35 EUR. . . . 342--344
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--364
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 365--366
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Karine Chemla Explorations in the history of
mathematical recreations: an
introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--376
Mitsuko Wate-Mizuno Mathematical recreations of Dénes K\Honig
and his work on graph theory . . . . . . 377--399
Albrecht Heeffer How algebra spoiled recreational
problems: a case study in the
cross-cultural dissemination of
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--437
Eric Vandendriessche W. W. Rouse Ball and the mathematics of
string figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438--462
Maarten Van Dyck and
Koen Vermeir Varieties of wonder: John Wilkins'
mathematical magic and the perpetuity of
invention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463--489
Bruno Belhoste and
Denise Hazebrouck Récréations et mathématiques mondaines au
XVIII$^e$ si\`ecle: le cas de Guyot . . 490--505
Anne-Marie Décaillot Les Récréations Mathématiques d'Édouard
Lucas: quelques éclairages . . . . . . . 506--517
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 518--519
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Jan P. Hogendijk Yvonne Dold-Samplonius (20 May 1937--16
June 2014) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
Peter M. Neumann Jacqueline Anne Stedall (4 August
1950--27 September 2014) . . . . . . . . 5--13
Luís Manuel Ribeiro Saraiva Étienne Bézout in Portugal: the reform of
the Portuguese University and beyond
(1772--1838) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--46
Olivier Darrigol The mystery of Riemann's curvature . . . 47--83
Vanja Hug and
Thomas Steiner Une lettre d'Euler \`a d'Alembert
retrouvée . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--94
Jeanne Peiffer Book Review: \booktitleDas mathematische
und naturphilosophische Lernen und
Arbeiten der Marquise du Châtelet
(1706-1749). Wissenszugänge einer Frau im
18. Jahrhundert, Frauke Böttcher, in:
\booktitleMathematik im Kontext.
Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg
(2013), ISBN: 978-3-642-32486-4 . . . . 95--98
David E. Rowe Book Review: \booktitleUniformisation
des surfaces de Riemann. Retour sur un
théor\`eme centenaire, Henri Paul de
Saint-Gervais. ENS Éditions, Lyon (2010),
ISBN: 978-2-84788-233-9 . . . . . . . . 98--102
Christian Gilain Book Review: \booktitleCorrespondance de
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749--1827), Roger
Hahn (Ed.). Brepols, Turnhout (2013),
ISBN: 978-2-503-54129-7 . . . . . . . . 102--105
Della Dumbaugh Book Review: \booktitleEmil Artin's
Iceland Journal 1925, Tom Artin (Ed.).
Free Scholar Press (2013), ISBN:
978-1-4825-5168-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--128
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
Thomas Archibald and
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131
Gregg De Young Two hitherto unknown Arabic Euclid
manuscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--154
Jemma Lorenat Figures real, imagined, and missing in
Poncelet, Plücker, and Gergonne . . . . . 155--192
Christopher Hollings The acceptance of abstract algebra in
the USSR, as viewed through periodic
surveys of the progress of Soviet
mathematical science . . . . . . . . . . 193--222
I. Grattan-Guinness Working on Coriolis . . . . . . . . . . 223--229
Jesper Lützen Book Review: \booktitleAventures de
l'analyse de Fermat \`a Borel. Mélanges
en l'honneur de Christian Gilain,
Susanne Féry (Ed.), in: Histoires de
géométries. Presses Universitaires de
Nancy, Editions Universitaires de
Lorraine, Nancy (2012), ISBN:
978-2-8143-0125-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 230--233
Ralf Krömer Book Review: \booktitleJustifier en
mathématiques, Dominique Flament,
Philippe Nabonnand (Eds.). Éditions de la
Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris
(2011), ISBN: 978-2-7351-1414-6 . . . . 233--237
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--259
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 260--261
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Roy Wagner Citrabhanu's Twenty-One Algebraic
Problems in Malayalam and Sanskrit . . . 263--279
David R. Bellhouse An analysis of errors in mathematical
tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--295
Clara Silvia Roero M. G. Agnesi, R. Rampinelli and the
Riccati family: a cultural fellowship
formed for an important scientific
purpose, the Instituzioni analitiche . . 296--314
François Lê ``Geometrical equations'': Forgotten
premises of Felix Klein's Erlanger
Programm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315--342
Benjamin Wardhaugh A `lost' chapter in the calculation of $
\pi $: Baron Zach and MS Bodleian 949 343--351
Menso Folkerts Book Review: The \booktitleLiber
mahameleth. A 12th-century mathematical
treatise. 3 vols., Jacques Sesiano
(Ed.), in: Sources and Studies in the
History of Mathematics and Physical
Sciences. Springer, Cham, Heidelberg,
New York, Dordrecht, London (2014),
ISBN: 978-3-319-03939-8 . . . . . . . . 352--354
Rossana Tazzioli Book Review: \booktitleSiméon-Denis
Poisson. Les mathématiques au service de
la science, Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach
(Ed.). École polytechnique-Palaiseau,
Paris (2013), ISBN: 978-2-7302-1584-8 354--357
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--381
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 382--383
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Joseph W. Dauben and
Niccol\`o Guicciardini and
Albert C. Lewis and
Karen Hunger Parshall and
Adrian C. Rice Ivor Grattan-Guinness (June 23,
1941--December 12, 2014) . . . . . . . . 385--406
Satyanad Kichenassamy Continued proportions and Tartaglia's
solution of cubic equations . . . . . . 407--435
Caroline Ehrhardt Tactics: In search of a long-term
mathematical project (1844--1896) . . . 436--467
Lukas M. Verburgt The objective and the subjective in
mid-nineteenth-century British
probability theory . . . . . . . . . . . 468--487
Ulrich Reich Book Review: \booktitleRécréations
mathématiques au moyen âge, Jacques
Sesiano. Presses Polytechniques et
Universitaires Romandes, Lausanne
(2014), ISBN: 978-2-88074-498-4 . . . . 488--491
Alberto Cogliati Book Review: \booktitleLes Groupes de
Lie dans l'oeuvre de Hermann Weyl.
Traduction et commentaire de l'article:
Théorie de la répresentation des groupes
continus semi-simples par des
transformations linéaires (1925--1926),
with the collaboration of Amaury
Thuillier, Christophe Eckes (Ed.).
Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Nancy
(2013), ISBN: 978-2-8143-0180-1 . . . . 491--494
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495--515
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 516--517
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Tom Archibald and
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Yiwen Zhu Different cultures of computation in
seventh century China from the viewpoint
of square root extraction . . . . . . . 3--25
Bernard Ycart Jakob Bielfeld (1717--1770) and the
diffusion of statistical concepts in
eighteenth century Europe . . . . . . . 26--48
Jonathan H. P. Dawes After 1952: the later development of
Alan Turing's ideas on the mathematics
of pattern formation . . . . . . . . . . 49--64
Miriam Franchella In the footsteps of Julius König's
paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--86
Rosanna Cretney Editing and reading early modern
mathematical texts in the digital age 87--97
Laurent Mazliak Book Review: \booktitlePrincipes et
Formules du Calcul des Probabilités pour
assigner les limites des variations des
événements naturels, Emmanuel-Etienne
Duvillard de Durand. Editions de l'INED,
Paris (2010) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--100
Emmylou Haffner Book Review: \booktitleDer Briefwechsel
Richard Dedekind--Heinrich Weber, vol.
5, Katrin Scheel, in: Abhandlungen der
Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg.
De Gruyter, Oldenbourg (2014) . . . . . 101--103
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings Book Review: \booktitlePerfect
Mechanics: Instrument Makers at the
Royal Society of London in the
Eighteenth Century, Richard Sorrenson.
Docent Press, Boston, Massachusetts
(2013), ISBN: 0-9887449-2-9 . . . . . . 104--105
John W. Dawson, Jr. Book Review: \booktitleDavid Hilbert's
Lectures on the Foundations of
Arithmetic and Logic, 1917--1933,
William Ewald, Wilfried Sieg (Eds.).
Springer (2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--126
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 127--128
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Ubiratan D'Ambrosio Paulus Gerdes (1952--2014) . . . . . . . 129--132
Menso Folkerts and
Dieter Launert and
Andreas Thom Jost Bürgi's method for calculating sines 133--147
Sloan Evans Despeaux and
Adrian C. Rice Augustus De Morgan's anonymous reviews
for \booktitleThe Athenæum: a mirror of a
Victorian mathematician . . . . . . . . 148--171
Roberto Scoth Higher education, dissemination and
spread of the mathematical sciences in
Sardinia (1720--1848) . . . . . . . . . 172--193
Norbert Schappacher and
Cordula Tollmien Emmy Noether, Hermann Weyl, and the
Göttingen Academy: a marginal note . . . 194--197
Klaus Thomas Volkert Book Review: \booktitleLa théorie des
lignes parall\`eles de Johann Heinrich
Lambert, A. Papadoupoulos, G. Théret.
Blanchard, Paris (2004) . . . . . . . . 198--206
Dagmar Mrozik Book Review: \booktitlePearls from a
Lost City: the Lvov School of
Mathematics, vol. 40, Roman Duda, in:
History of Mathematics. American
Mathematical Society (2014), ISBN:
978-1-4704-1076-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 207--209
Martina R. Schneider Book Review: \booktitleMathematik bei
den Juden. Band II: 1551-1840. Georg
Olms, Hildesheim, Zürich, New York
(2014), ISBN: 978-3-487-13585-4 . . . . 209--213
Maarten Bullynck Book Review: \booktitleNewton and the
Origin of Civilization, Jed Z. Buchwald,
Mordechai Feingold. Princeton University
Press, Princeton, New Jersey (2013),
ISBN: 978-0-691-15478-7 . . . . . . . . 213--215
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--238
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 239--240
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Ivahn Smadja On two conjectures that shaped the
historiography of indeterminate
analysis: Strachey and Chasles on
Sanskrit sources . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--287
Pedro Roitman and
Hervé Le Ferrand The strange case of Paul Appell's last
memoir on Monge's problem: ``Sur les
déblais et remblais'' . . . . . . . . . . 288--309
Leo Corry Some distributivity-like results in the
medieval arithmetic of Jordanus
Nemorarius and Campanus de Novara . . . 310--331
Maarten Bullynck Histories of algorithms: Past, present
and future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--341
Steffen Ducheyne Book Review: \booktitleThe Newton
Papers. The Strange and True Odyssey of
Isaac Newton's Manuscripts, Sarah Dry.
Oxford University Press, New York
(2014), ISBN: 978-0-19-995104-8 . . . . 342--345
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--367
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 368
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Lukas M. Verburgt and
Olga Hoppe-Kondrikova On A. Ya. Khinchin's paper `Ideas of
intuitionism and the struggle for a
subject matter in contemporary
mathematics' (1926): a translation with
introduction and commentary . . . . . . 369--398
Alessio Brioschi and
Riccardo Rosso Eugenio Beltrami's courses on the
analytic and mechanical theory of heat.
I. Analytic theory of heat . . . . . . . 399--414
June Barrow-Green and
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze ``The first man on the street'' ---
tracing a famous Hilbert quote (1900)
back to Gergonne (1825) . . . . . . . . 415--426
Alberto Cogliati Schouten, Levi-Civita and the notion of
parallelism in Riemannian geometry . . . 427--443
Derrick Mosley Book Review: \booktitleThe
Correspondence of John Wallis, Volumes
III and IV, Phillip Beeley, Christoph
Scriba (Eds.). Oxford University Press
(2012) (2014), ISBN: 978-0-19-856947-3 444--446
Jemma Lorenat Book Review: \booktitleSciences
Mathématiques 1750--1850: continuités et
ruptures, Christian Gilain, Alexandre
Guilbaud (Eds.). CNRS Éditions, Paris
(2015), ISBN: 0-8018-7434-3 . . . . . . 446--449
Elena Ausejo Book Review: \booktitleInfinitos,
paradojas y principios. Escritos
históricos en torno a los fundamentos de
las matemáticas, Alejandro R.
Garciadiego. Plaza $y$ Valdés Editores,
Madrid, México DF (2014), ISBN:
978-84-15271-88-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 449--451
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452--476
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 477--478
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Alessandra Fiocca The \booktitleBullettino di Bibliografia
e di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche e
Fisiche (1868--1887), an example of the
internationalisation of research . . . . 1--30
Emmylou Haffner Strategical use(s) of arithmetic in
Richard Dedekind and Heinrich Weber's
\booktitleTheorie der algebraischen
Funktionen einer Veränderlichen . . . . . 31--69
Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen Book Review: \booktitleTaming the
Unknown: a History of Algebra from
Antiquity to the Early Twentieth
Century, Victor J. Katz, Karen Hunger
Parshall. Princeton University Press,
Princeton/Oxford (2014) . . . . . . . . 70--71
Craig Fraser Book Review: \booktitleHeavenly
Mathematics: the Forgotten Art of
Spherical Trigonometry, Glen Van
Brummelen. Princeton University Press
(2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--73
Davide Crippa Book Review: \booktitleMathematische
Schriften, Reihe 7, sechster Band,
1673-1676, Arithmetische Kreisquadratur,
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Akademie-Verlag, Berlin (2012) . . . . . 73--76
T. Archibald Book Review: \booktitleLa patria ci
vuole eroi: matematici e vita politica
nell'Italia del Resorgimento, Umberto
Bottazzini, Pietro Nastasi. Zanichelli,
Bologna (2013) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--79
Martina R. Schneider Book Review: \booktitleEmmy Noether, die
Noether-Schule und die moderne Algebra.
Zur Geschichte einer kulturellen
Bewegung, Mechthild Koreuber, in:
Mathematik im Kontext. Springer
Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg (2015),
ISBN: 978-3-662-44149-7 . . . . . . . . 79--82
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--101
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Zhihui Chen Scholars' recreation of two traditions
of mathematical commentaries in late
eighteenth-century China . . . . . . . . 105--133
Viktor Blåsjö On what has been called Leibniz's
rigorous foundation of infinitesimal
geometry by means of Riemannian sums . . 134--149
Tony Crilly and
Steven H. Weintraub and
Paul R. Wolfson Arthur Cayley, Robert Harley and the
quintic equation: newly discovered
letters 1859--1863 . . . . . . . . . . . 150--169
Jeanne Peiffer Book Review: \booktitlePrincipes
mathématiques de la philosophie
naturelle. La traduction française des
Philosophiae naturalis principia
mathematica. Centre international d'étude
du XVIII $^e$ si\`ecle, Ferney-Voltaire
(2015), ISBN: 978-2-84559-115-8 . . . . 170--172
Andreas Kleinert Book Review: \booktitleJean le Rond
D'Alembert : OEuvres compl\`etes. Série
$V$ : Correspondance générale. Vol. 2 :
Correspondance générale 1741--1752,
Ir\`ene Passeron (Ed.). CNRS Éditions,
Paris (2015), ISBN: 978-2-271-08749-2 172--174
Marc Moyon Book Review: \booktitleFrom Alexandria,
Through Baghdad. Surveys and Studies in
the Ancient Greek and Medieval Islamic
Mathematical Sciences in Honor of J.L.
Berggren, Nathan Sidoli, Glen Van
Brummelen (Eds.). Springer (2014) . . . 174--178
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--197
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 198--199
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Nathan Camillo Sidoli and
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Editorial Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201
Christopher Hollings and
Ursula Martin and
Adrian Rice The Lovelace--De Morgan mathematical
correspondence: a critical re-appraisal 202--231
Cinzia Cerroni From the theory of ``congeneric surd
equations'' to ``Segr\`e's bicomplex
numbers'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232--251
Nicola M. R. Oswald An unpublished paper `Über einige durch
unendliche Reihen definirte Functionen
eines complexen Argumentes' by Adolf
Hurwitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--279
Eberhard Knobloch Letter to the editors of the journal
\booktitleHistoria Mathematica . . . . . 280--282
Clemency Montelle Book Review: \booktitleThe
Siddhantasundara of Jñanaraja: an English
Translation with Commentary, Toke
Lindegaard Knudsen. Johns Hopkins
University Press, Baltimore (2014) . . . 283--285
Ralf Krömer Book Review: \booktitleGéométrie et
Topologie différentielles (1918--1932).
Renaud Chorlay. Paris (Hermann) (2015),
ISBN: 978-2-7056-8106-7 . . . . . . . . 285--287
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Book Review: \booktitleRecollections of
a Jewish Mathematician in Germany, by
Abraham A. Fraenkel. Edited by Jiska
Cohen-Mansfield, translated by Allison
Brown. Springer/Birkhäuser, Basel (2016),
ISBN: 978-3-319-30845-6 . . . . . . . . 288--292
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--312
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 313--314
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Craig Fraser Awarding of the May Prizes for 2017 . . 315--317
Henrik Kragh Sòrensen Montucla Prize 2017 . . . . . . . . . . 318--319
Riccardo Rosso Eugenio Beltrami's courses on the
analytic and mechanical theory of heat,
II. Mechanical theory of heat . . . . . 320--341
Tony Royle The impact of the women of the Technical
Section of the Admiralty Air Department
on the structural integrity of aircraft
during World War One . . . . . . . . . . 342--366
Michael J. Barany and
Anne-Sandrine Paumier and
Jesper Lützen From Nancy to Copenhagen to the World:
The internationalization of Laurent
Schwartz and his theory of distributions 367--394
Daniel F. Mansfield and
N. J. Wildberger Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact
sexagesimal trigonometry . . . . . . . . 395--419
Viktor Blåsjö Reply to Knobloch . . . . . . . . . . . 420--422
Robert E. Bradley Book Review: \booktitleA Brief History
of Numbers, Leo Corry. Oxford University
Press (2015), 309 + xiii pages . . . . . 423--424
Scott A. Walter Book Review: \booktitleHenri Poincaré: A
Scientific Biography, Jeremy Gray.
Princeton University Press, Princeton
(2013), 608 pp., \$39.95} . . . . . . . 425--435
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436--456
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 457--458
Angela Axworthy The debate between Peletier and Clavius
on superposition . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--38
A. Cogliati and
P. Mastrolia Cartan, Schouten and the search for
connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--74
Dietrich Stoyan and
Thomas Morel Julius Weisbach's pioneering
contribution to orthogonal linear
regression (1840) . . . . . . . . . . . 75--84
Della Dumbaugh Book Review: \booktitleA History in Sum:
150 Years of Mathematics at Harvard,
1825--1875, Steve Nadis, Shing-Tung Yang
(Eds.). Harvard University Press,
Cambridge (2013), 249 pp. . . . . . . . 85--90
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--108
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 109--109
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Ofer Elior The Arabic tradition of Euclid's
\booktitleElements preserved in the
Latin translation by Adelard of Bath and
the Hebrew translation by Rabbi Jacob 111--130
Andrea Del Centina and
Alessandra Fiocca Boscovich's geometrical principle of
continuity, and the ``mysteries of the
infinity'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--175
Boris Katz and
Mikhail G. Katz and
Sam Sanders A footnote to \booktitleThe crisis in
contemporary mathematics . . . . . . . . 176--181
Samuel Gessner Book Review: \booktitleObras Matemáticas,
Francisco de Melo, Vol. 1: Edição crítica e
tradução, Bernardo Mota, Henrique Leitão.
Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Biblioteca
Nacional de Portugal, Lisboa (2014), 505
pages, 25 EUR., ISBN: 978-972-9376-31-3 182--185
Marco Panza Book Review: \booktitleMeccanicismo.
Trionfi e miserie della visione
meccanica del mondo, Giorgio Israel.
Zaniclelli, Bologna (2015), pp. xiv +
322; 28 EUR, ISBN: 978-88-08-52129-3 . . 186--189
Arianna Borrelli Book Review: \booktitleZwischen zwei
Disziplinen. B. L. van der Waerden und
die Entwicklung der Quantenmechanik,
Martina R. Schneider. Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, Heidelberg (2011), e-ISBN
978-3-642-21825-5. 34,99 EUR (e-book).
411. 44,99 EUR (soft-cover)., ISBN:
978-3-642-21824-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 189--193
Jeremy Gray Book Review: \booktitleEmil Artin and
Beyond --- Class Field Theory and
$L$-Functions, Della Dumbaugh, Joachim
Schwermer. European Mathematical Society
(2015), 231 pp. \$76.00, ISBN:
978-3-03719-146-0} . . . . . . . . . . . 193--195
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--213
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 214--215
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
François Lê The recognition and the constitution of
the theorems of closure . . . . . . . . 217--236
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--322
Aleksandar Nikoli\'c Karamata functions and differential
equations: Achievements from the 20th
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--276
Russell W. Howell Book Review: \booktitleMathematicians
and Their Gods: Interactions Between
Mathematics and Religious Beliefs,
Snezana Lawrence, Mark McCartney (Eds.).
Oxford University Press (2015), 320 pp.
\$44.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-870305-1} . . . 277--299
Andrea Sereni Book Review: \booktitleThe Selected
Correspondence of L. E. J. Brouwer.
Sources and Studies in the History of
Mathematics and Physical Science, Dirk
Van Dalen (Ed.). Springer-Verlag, London
(2011), p. VIII, 532. Hardcover ISBN:
978-0-85729-537-8, Softcover ISBN:
978-1-4471-2691-1 . . . . . . . . . . . 300--302
Jemma Lorenat Book Review: \booktitlePushing Limits:
From West Point to Berkeley and Beyond,
Ted Hill. American Mathematical Society
and MAA Press, Providence (2017), 294
pages. 45 dollars, ISBN:
978-1-4704-3584-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 302--304
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--305
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 306--320
Christián C. Carman Accounting for overspecification and
indifference to visual accuracy in
manuscript diagrams: a tentative
explanation based on transmission . . . ifc--ifc
Jeanne Peiffer and
Hél\`ene Gispert and
Philippe Nabonnand Interplay between mathematical journals
on various scales 1850--1950 . . . . . . 323--333
Rossana Tazzioli Interplay between local and
international journals: the case of
Sicily, 1880--1920 . . . . . . . . . . . 334--353
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze The interplay of various Scandinavian
mathematical journals (1859--1953) and
the road towards internationalization 354--375
Caroline Ehrhardt A locus for transnational exchanges:
European mathematical journals for
students and teachers, 1860s--1914 . . . 376--394
Maria Rosaria Enea Circulation of an editorial model: the
case-study of the short-lived
\booktitleLe Matematiche Pure ed
Applicate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395--413
Hél\`ene Gispert Une ambition éditoriale ``universelle et
confraternelle'' : le bulletin
bibliographique de L'Enseignement
mathématique (1899--1920). (French) [A
``universal and confraternal'' editorial
ambition: the bibliographic bulletin of
mathematics teaching (1899--1920)] . . . 414--432
Erika Luciano Constructing an international library:
the collections of journals in Turin's
Special Mathematics Library . . . . . . 433--449
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 450--451
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Marc Moyon The \booktitleLiber Restauracionis: a
newly discovered copy of a mediæval
algebra in Florence . . . . . . . . . . 1--37
Nadezda Orlova and
Sergei Soloviev Logic and logicians in Russia before
1917: Living in a wider world . . . . . 38--55
Jesper Lützen How mathematical impossibility changed
welfare economics: a history of Arrow's
impossibility theorem . . . . . . . . . 56--87
Christopher P. Porter Three books on computability, with a
special focus on Turing's legacy . . . . 88--95
Daniel Patrick Morgan Book Review: \booktitleHeavenly Numbers:
Astronomy and Authority in Early
Imperial China, Christopher Cullen.
Oxford University Press (2017), 426 +
xiv pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--99
Marie-José Durand-Richard Book Review: \booktitleIris Runge: a
Life at the Crossroads of Mathematics,
Science, and Industry, Renate Tobies.
Springer/Birkhäuser (2012), 442 pp. + 16
Plates. 139.99\$, ISBN:
978-3-0348-0251-2} . . . . . . . . . . . 99--102
Brenda Davison Book Review: \booktitleThe G. H. Hardy
Reader, Donald J. Albers, Gerald L.
Alexanderson, William Dunham. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge (2015), pp.
xii + 395, illus. (Softcover), ISBN:
978-1-107-59464-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 102--103
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--130
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 131--132
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Michalis Sialaros and
Jean Christianidis and
Athanasia Megremi Editorial note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Markus Asper Personae at play. `\booktitleMen of
Mathematics' in commentary . . . . . . . 4--15
Jean Christianidis and
Athanasia Megremi Tracing the early history of algebra:
Testimonies on Diophantus in the
Greek-speaking world (4th--7th century
CE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--38
Ken Saito Re-examination of the different origins
of the arithmetical books of Euclid's
\booktitleElements . . . . . . . . . . . 39--53
Sonja Brentjes Mathematical commentaries in Arabic and
Persian --- purposes, forms, and styles 54--66
Gregg De Young The commentator's craft: Building a
mathematical commentary from quotations 67--86
Nathan Sidoli and
Yoichi Isahaya Na\dsir al-Din al-\dTusi's Comments on
Euclid's Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--105
Jeffrey A. Oaks Proofs and algebra in al-Farisi's
commentary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--121
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--143
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 144--145
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Norman Biggs John Reynolds of the Mint: a
mathematician in the service of King and
Commonwealth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--28
Frédéric Jaëck Calcul différentiel et intégral adapté aux
substitutions par Volterra. (French)
[Differential and Integral Calculation
for Substitutions by Volterra] . . . . . 29--68
Izabela Jó'zwik and
Lech Maligranda and
Ma\lgorzata Terepeta Stefan Kempisty (1892--1940) . . . . . . 69--86
Klaus Volkert Note on models . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--95
Gert Schubring Book Review: \booktitleKarl Weierstraß
(1815--1897). Aspekte seines Lebens und
Wirkens --- Aspects of his Life and
Work, Wolfgang König, Jürgen Sprekels
(Eds.). Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden
(2016), 259 pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--100
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--121
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 122--123
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Michael Raugh and
Siegmund Probst The Leibniz catenary and approximation
of $e$ --- an analysis of his
unpublished calculations . . . . . . . . 1--19
Pierre Lamandé Sur la conception des objets et des
méthodes mathématiques dans les textes
philosophiques de d'Alembert . . . . . . 20--59
Helena Durnová and
Tilman Sauer Václav Hlavatý on intuition in Riemannian
space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--79
Roger Herz-Fischler An early usage of the expression
``golden section'' . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Holger Becker An even earlier (1717) usage of the
expression ``golden section'' . . . . . 82--83
David E. Rowe Book Review: \booktitleFelix Klein.
Visionen für Mathematik, Anwendungen und
Unterricht, Renate Tobies. Springer,
Heidelberg (2019), 574 pp. 55 EUR . . . 84--93
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--114
Jean Christianidis and
Athanasia Megremi Corrigendum to ``\booktitleTracing the
early history of algebra: Testimonies on
Diophantus in the Greek--speaking world
(4th-7th century CE)'' [Historia
Mathematica \bf 47 (2019) 16--38] . . . 115--115
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Nathan Sidoli and
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Editorial note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Giovanni Ferraro Euler and the structure of mathematics 2--24
Elías Fuentes Guillén and
Carmen Martínez Adame The notion of variable quantities $
\omega $ in Bolzano's early works . . . 25--49
Laura E. Turner Cultivating a research imperative:
Mentoring mathematics at Stockholms
Högskola, 1882--1887 . . . . . . . . . . 50--83
Vincenzo De Risi Book Review: \booktitleFermat et les
débuts modernes de la géométrie, Roshdi
Rashed. Olms, Hildesheim (2018), viii +
320., ISBN: 978-3-487-15685-9 . . . . . 84--87
Volker Peckhaus Book Review: \booktitleKurt Gödel:
Collected Works. Vol. IV: Correspondence
A-G. Vol. V: Correspondence H-Z, Solomon
Feferman (Ed.). Clarendon Press, Oxford
(2003), Paperback 2014. Vol. IV (pbk).
xxii + 662 pp. + 12 ill. Vol. V: ISBN
978-0-19-968962-0 (pbk). xxvi + 664 pp.
+ 15 ill., ISBN: 978-0-19-968961-3 . . . 87--90
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--110
Anonymous Notes on new Editorial Board members . . 111--112
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 113--113
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Brigitte Stenhouse Mary Somerville's early contributions to
the circulation of differential calculus 1--25
Maria Alessandra Vaccaro Historical origins of the nine-point
conic. The contribution of Eugenio
Beltrami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--48
Ana Patrícia Martins An overview on the history of actuarial
calculus in Portugal until the late 19th
century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--90
David Waszek Book Review: \booktitleNew Light on
George Boole, Desmond MacHale, Yvonne
Cohen. Cork University Press (2018), 492
pp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--93
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--115
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Yiwen Zhu How do we understand mathematical
practices in non-mathematical fields?
Reflections inspired by cases from
12$^{th}$ and 13$^{th}$ century China 1--25
Pierre Ageron and
Hmida Hedfi Ibrahim al-Balish\dtar's book of
arithmetic (ca. 1575): Hybridizing
Spanish mathematical treatises with the
Arabic scientific tradition . . . . . . 26--50
J. Marshall Unger On the acceptance of trigonometry in
wasan: Evidence from a text of Aida
Yasuaki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--65
Christopher D. Hollings and
R. B. Parkinson Two letters from Otto Neugebauer to
Thomas Eric Peet on ancient Egyptian
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--98
Jesper Lützen Book Review: \booktitleThe Impossibility
of Squaring the Circle in the 17th
Century. A Debate Among Gregory, Huygens
and Leibniz, Davide Crippa. Birkhäuser
(2019), viii + 184 pp. . . . . . . . . . 99--103
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--124
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 125--126
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Andrea Sacchetti Francesco Carlini: Kepler's equation and
the asymptotic solution to singular
differential equations . . . . . . . . . 1--32
Riccardo Rosso Probability and exams: the work of
Antonio Bordoni . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--47
Maria Rosaria Enea and
Giovanni Ferraro Analytic and arithmetic methods in
Liouville's identities . . . . . . . . . 48--70
François Lê ``Are the genre and the Geschlecht one
and the same number?'' An inquiry into
Alfred Clebsch's \booktitleGeschlecht 71--107
Lori L. Murray and
David R. Bellhouse W. F. Sheppard's correspondence with
Karl Pearson and the development of his
tables and moment estimates . . . . . . 108--117
René van Bevern and
Viktoriia A. Slugina A historical note on the $ 3 /
2$-approximation algorithm for the
metric traveling salesman problem . . . 118--127
Victor J. Katz Book Review: \booktitleThe Mathematical
World of Charles L. Dodgson, Robin
Wilson, Amirouche Moktefi (Eds.). Oxford
University Press (2019), 266 + xiv pages 128--131
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--146
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 147--148
Anonymous Pages 1--144 (February 2021) . . . . . . 1--144
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Kevin Gerard Tracey `Disturbed' by Euclid: Thomas Fincke and
the reading of Ramist mathematics in
sixteenth-century Germany . . . . . . . 1--40
June Barrow-Green ``Knowledge gained by experience'':
Olaus Henrici --- engineer, geometer and
maker of mathematical models . . . . . . 41--76
Iulian D. Toader Permanence as a principle of practice 77--94
Jesper Lützen Hjelmslev's geometry of reality . . . . 95--116
Gianluca Longa Book Review: \booktitlePtolemy's
Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of
Life, Jacqueline Feke. Princeton
University Press (2018), 256 pp., ISBN:
978-0-691-17958-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Laurent Mazliak Book Review: \booktitleÉmile Borel. \`A
l'aube de la théorie des quanta : notes
inédites d'Émile Borel sur un cours de
Paul Langevin au Coll\`ege de France
(1912--1913), Martha Cecilia Bustamante
De La Ossa (Ed.). Brepols Publishers,
Turnhout (2019), $ 20 \times 26 $ cm.
65,00 EUR, ISBN: 978-2-503-58638-0 . . . 120--122
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--142
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 143--144
Anonymous Pages 1--116 (May 2021) . . . . . . . . 1--116
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Ricardo Rodríguez Hurtado and
Juan A. Nicolás and
Javier Echeverría Ezponda The geometric origin of perspectivist
science in G. W. Leibniz. Analysis based
on unpublished manuscripts . . . . . . . 1--22
David E. Rowe On resolving singularities of plane
curves via a theorem attributed to
Alfred Clebsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--38
Alison Maidment The Edinburgh Mathematical Laboratory
and Edmund Taylor Whittaker's role in
the early development of numerical
analysis in Britain . . . . . . . . . . 39--63
Cinzia Cerroni and
Aldo Brigaglia The ``Circolo Matematico di Palermo''
and the First World War: the crisis of
scientific internationalism: a view
through the unedited correspondence of
De Franchis with Edmund Landau and other
mathematicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--94
Antonin Durand Book Review: \booktitleL'élite sous la
mitraille. Les normaliens, les
mathématiques et la Grande Guerre,
1900--1925, David Aubin. Éditions Rue
d'Ulm, Paris (2018), coll. \og Figures
normaliennes\fg, 360 pp., preface by
Claude Viterbo, 25 EUR . . . . . . . . . 95--97
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--114
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 115--116
Anonymous Pages 1--108 (August 2021) . . . . . . . 1--108
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
June Barrow-Green Awarding of the May Prizes for 2021 . . 1--3
Anonymous Awarding the Montucla Prize for 2021 . . 4--5
Andrea Del Centina and
Alessandra Fiocca The chords theorem recalled to life at
the turn of the eighteenth century . . . 6--39
Andrea Bender and
Sieghard Beller Ways of counting in Micronesia . . . . . 40--72
Erika Luciano On Francesco G. Tricomi's heritage:
Archive and miscellany . . . . . . . . . 73--84
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--106
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Anonymous Pages 1--118 (November 2021) . . . . . . 1--118
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Xulin Zhou Two problems in the [Chinese characters]
\booktitleSuanshu shu (Book of
Mathematics): Geometric relations
between circles and squares and methods
for determining their mutual relations 1--23
Elías Fuentes Guillén and
Davide Crippa The 1804 examination for the chair of
Elementary Mathematics at the University
of Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--54.e18
Michael Friedman On Mascheroni's \booktitleLa geometria
del compasso at the beginning of the
19th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--79
Annette Imhausen Quo vadis \em History of Ancient
Mathematics who will you take with you,
and who will be left behind? Essay
Review prompted by a recent publication 80--93
François Lê Book Review: \booktitleThéorie des
fonctions algébriques d'une variable,
Richard Dedekind, Heinrich Weber. Vrin
(2020), Texte introduit, traduit et
annoté par Emmylou Haffner. Mathesis . . 94--96
Duncan J. Melville and
Laura Martini and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--116
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Anonymous Pages 1--134 (February 2022) . . . . . . 1--134
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Antoni Malet and
Nathan Sidoli Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Patrick Scott Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (1932--2021) . . . . 3--6
Henry Zepeda and
Benno van Dalen and
Menso Folkerts In memoriam: Richard P. Lorch
(1942--2021) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--16
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze From lattices via social history to
theories of modernity in mathematics: a
biographical essay for Herbert Mehrtens
(1946--2021) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--34
Charlotte de Varent Small numerical variations in a set of
similar problems from Nippur on the area
of the square . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--70
Christián C. Carman François Vi\`ete's method for calculating
the eccentricity in a bisected model and
its possible application to Kepler's
Vicarious Hypothesis . . . . . . . . . . 71--91
Lene Birkeland and
Rolf Nossum A letter from Malevich to Semevsky about
Kovalevskaya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--119
Duncan J. Melville and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--132
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 133--134
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Anonymous Table of contents . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1
Christine Proust and
Eric Vandendriessche Introduction --- a critical approach to
the opposition between ``concrete'' and
``abstract'' numbers . . . . . . . . . . 3--11
Eric Vandendriessche The concrete numbers of ``primitive''
societies: a historiographical approach 12--34
Miguel Valério and
Silvia Ferrara Numeracy at the dawn of writing:
Mesopotamia and beyond . . . . . . . . . 35--53
Christine Proust The sexagesimal place-value notation and
abstract numbers in mathematical
cuneiform texts . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--70
Baptiste Fiette Measuring crops with the
sukunnûm-number . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--98
Christine Chambris and
Jana Visnovska On the history of units in French
elementary school arithmetic: the case
of proportionality . . . . . . . . . . . 99--118
Débora Ferreira and
Gert Schubring ``Complex numbers'' and the problem of
multiplication between quantities . . . 119--145
Xiaofei Wang How Jean-Baptiste Delambre read ancient
Greek arithmetic on the basis of the
arithmetic of ``complex numbers'' at the
turn of the 19th century . . . . . . . . 146--163
Karolina Karpi\'nska ``Denominate numbers'' in mathematics
school textbooks by Stefan Banach . . . 164--196
Duncan J. Melville and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--214
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 215--217
Anonymous Pages 1--98 (August 2022) . . . . . . . 1--98
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Siu A. Chin Modern light on ancient feud: Robert
Hooke and Newton's graphical method . . 1--14
M. G. Lugaresi and
C. D'Alterio Federigo Enriques (1871--1946): a
critical study of \booktitleLezioni di
geometria proiettiva . . . . . . . . . . 15--52
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Felix Hausdorff's Collected Works --- a
meta-review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--64
Maarten Bullynck \booktitleSupplementband: Johann
Heinrich Lamberts Monatsbuch. Neu
herausgegeben, eingeleitet, kommentiert
und mit Verzeichnissen zu Lamberts
Schriften, Briefen und nachgelassenen
Manuskripten versehen (in two volumes),
Niels W. Bokhove, Armin Emmel (Eds.).
Olms, Hildesheim u.a. (2020), Cloth.
clvii + 925 pages, ISBN:
978-3-487-15822-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 64--66
Jeanne Peiffer \booktitleLeonhardi Euleri Opera omnia,
Series IV A : Commercium Epistolicum,
Vol. 8 Ediderunt Andreas Kleinert et
Thomas Steiner, auxilio Gisela Kleinert
et Martin Mattmüller. Basel (Birkhäuser).
2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--68
Duncan J. Melville and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--96
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 97--97
Anonymous Pages 1--98 (November 2022) . . . . . . 1--98
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
David Clark and
Todd Munson On five sangaku problems appearing in
Yamaguchi's travel diary . . . . . . . . 1--2
Hidetoshi Fukagawa and
David Clark Ajima's solution to the Gion shrine
problem: a modern interpretation . . . . 3--10
Peter Wong On a sangaku of Sugino'o Shrine
(Yamagata) and Yamaguchi Kanzan's second
trip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--17
J. Marshall Unger Mathematics and philology: an example
from wasan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--24
Arrigo Pisati and
Riccardo Rosso Felice Casorati and the reception of
Gaussian optics in Italy . . . . . . . . 25--44
Alberto Cogliati and
Rachele Rivis The origins of the fundamental theorem
of surface theory . . . . . . . . . . . 45--79
Duncan J. Melville and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--96
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 97--98
Anonymous Pages 1--92 (February 2023) . . . . . . 1--92
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Antoni Malet and
Jeffrey Oaks Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
David Buckle How the estimate of $ \sqrt {2} $ on YBC
7289 may have been calculated . . . . . 3--18
Lloyd Strickland How Leibniz tried to tell the world he
had squared the circle . . . . . . . . . 19--39
Dmitry Zlatopolski ``Perfect Arithmetic'' by Vaclav Josef
Pelikan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--50
Antti J. V. Tuominen Pygmies, Bushmen, and savage numbers ---
a case study in a sequence of bad
citations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--72
Duncan J. Melville and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--91
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Pages 1--92 (May 2023) . . . . . . . . . 1--92
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Christopher Baltus Poncelet's discovery of homology . . . . 1--20
Henning Heller Felix Klein's teaching of Galois theory 21--46
Valérie Debuiche and
Mattia Brancato \em Scientia Perspectiva. Leibniz and
geometric perspective . . . . . . . . . 47--69
David E. Rowe \booktitle``Kann eine Frau
Privatdozentin werden?'' --- die Umfrage
des Preußischen Kultusministeriums zur
Habilitation von Frauen 1907, Cordula
Tollmien. tredition, Hamburg (2021), 296
S., 19,99 EUR, ISBN: 978-3-347-05156-0 70--74
Duncan J. Melville and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--91
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Anonymous Pages 1--78 (August 2023) . . . . . . . 1--78
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ifc--ifc
Dominique Raynaud Da Vinci's \booktitleCodex Atlanticus,
fols. 395r and 686r-686v, refers to
Leonardo Pisano \em volgarizzato, not to
Giorgio Valla . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Michael Wiescher Julius Plücker --- a path from geometry
to optics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--33
Alessandro Belcastro and
Giuseppina Fenaroli A determination of Catalan numbers in
18th century Italy by Giovanni Rizzetti
(1675--1751) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--47
Jens Hòyrup Book Review: Adam Ries, \booktitleCoß 1.
2 vols., Bernd Rüdiger, Gebhardt Rainer,
Menso Folkerts (Eds.). Adam-Ries-Bund,
Annaberg-Buchholz (2023), 320 + 278 pp. 48--56
Duncan J. Melville and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--75
Anonymous Notes on contributors . . . . . . . . . 76--77
Anonymous Pages 1--54 (November 2023) . . . . . . 1--54
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii
J. Marshall Unger Cyclic quadrilaterals: Solutions of two
Japanese problems and their proofs . . . 1--13
Viktor Blåsjö Newton on constructions in geometry . . 14--29
Michalis Sialaros Book Review: \booktitleA New History of
Greek Mathematics, Reviel Netz.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
(2022) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--32
Nicolas Michel Review of Jesper Lützen: \booktitleA
History of Mathematical Impossibility.
Oxford University Press (2022) . . . . . 33--35
Duncan J. Melville and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--53
Anonymous Pages 1--60 (March 2024) . . . . . . . . 1--60
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii
Glen Van Brummelen Decimal fractional numeration and the
decimal point in 15th-century Italy . . 1--13
G. Sreeram and
Aditya Kolachana The sa\dmyoga-meru: a combinatorial tool
in the \em Sa\.ngita-ratnakara . . . . . 14--25
Richard Arthur and
David Rabouin ``On the Unviability of Interpreting
Leibniz's Infinitesimals through
Non-standard analysis'' . . . . . . . . 26--42
Jens Hòyrup Johannes Regiomontanus,
\booktitleAufgaben und Übungen zur
Algebrass, Menso Folkerts, Martin
Hellmann. Erwin Rauner Verlag, Augsburg
(2023), Essay review byed., trans . . . 43--46
Davide Crippa Book Review: \booktitleReactionary
Mathematics: a Genealogy of Purity,
Massimo Mazzotti. University of Chicago
Press (2023) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--49
Anonymous Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--59
Anonymous Pages 1--54 (June 2024) . . . . . . . . 1--54
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii
Chandana Jayawardana Mathematical cognition related to the
large numbers in early societies: a
study based on 5th-century Buddhist
Commentaries in Sri Lanka. . . . . . . . 1--12
Nathan Sidoli Book Review: \booktitle\em Aristarchus
of Samos: On the Sizes and Distances of
the Sun and the Moon by Christián C.
Carman and Rodolfo P. Buzón. London
(Routledge) 2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--14
Jan P. Hogendijk Book Review: Julio Samsó, \booktitleOn
both sides of the strait of Gibraltar:
Studies in the history of medieval
astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula and
the Maghrib. Leiden: Brill, 2020. XXI +
1005 pp, ISBN 978-90-04-43656-5.
Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1,
The Near and Middle East, Vol. 144.
Price 207 Euro . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--15
Jens Hòyrup Review of: Marc Moyon, \booktitleLe
Liber augmenti et diminutionis: \em
Contribution \`a l'histoire des
mathématiques médiévales. XVI, 204 pp.
(Boethius, 73). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
Verlag. ISBN 978-3-515-13573-3 (print),
ISBN 978-3-515-13581-8 (E-Book) . . . . 16--19
Clelia V. Crialesi Brill, Leiden-Boston (2022), Review of
Di Liscia, Daniel A., and Sylla, Edith
D. (eds.) with the collaboration of
Bakker, Paul J.J.M.
\booktitleQuantifying Aristotle
(`Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
and Science', 34), pp. 479 . . . . . . . 20--22
Laurent Mazliak Book Review: \booktitleLe Monde des
mathématiques, Pierre-Michel Menger,
Pierre Verschueren. Éditions du Seuil,
Paris (2023), 832 pages, ISBN-10
2-02-153070-1, ISBN-13 978-2-02-153070-4 23--24
Thomas Preveraud The International Commission on
Mathematical Instruction, 1908--2008:
People, events and challenges in
mathematics education . . . . . . . . . 25--27
Michael N. Fried Sabetai Unguru 1931--2024 . . . . . . . 28--31
Duncan J. Melville and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--54
Anonymous Pages 1--76 (September 2024) . . . . . . 1--76
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii
Ofer Elior The Hebrew translation of Euclid's
\booktitleElements ascribed to Rabbi
Jacob: a new analysis following the
``Discovery'' of the Arabic version in
MS Paris, BULAC ARA. 606 . . . . . . . . 1--21
Benjamin Wardhaugh Euclidean terms in European languages,
1482--1703 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--37
François Lê Book Review: \booktitleThe Richness of
the History of Mathematics: a Tribute to
Jeremy Gray. Karine Chemla, José
Ferreirós, Lizhen Ji, Erhard Scholz,
Chang Wang (eds.). Springer, 2023 . . . 38--39
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Henk J. M. Bos (1940--2024): a first
assessment of his legacy in the field of
history of mathematics . . . . . . . . . 40--48
Marco Panza and
Niccol\`o Guicciardini Massimo Galuzzi (1943--2023). Obituary 49--50
Duncan J. Melville and
Kim Plofker Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--76
Anonymous Pages 1--72 (December 2024) . . . . . . 1--72
Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii
Christián C. Carman Fabricius's theory for Mars: the model
that shocked Kepler . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Eleonora Sammarchi Additive and subtractive as relational
entities in the algebra of al-Zanjani
(and his predecessors) . . . . . . . . . 22--40
David Rabouin Negatives as fictions in 16$^{\rm th}$
and 17$^{\rm th}$ century mathematics 41--61
Eric Moses Gurevitch Book Review: Misra, Anuj, 2022.
\booktitleLearning With Spheres: the
Goladhyaya in Nityananda's
Sarvasiddhantaraja. Routledge, London
400 pp. DOI: 10.4324/9780429506680 . . . 62--64
Reviel Netz Book Review: Francisci Maurolyci
\booktitleArchimedea, curaverunt
Riccardo Bellé, Pier Daniele Napolitani,
Beatrice Sisana. Adnotationes anglice
interpretatus est Walter Roy Laird.
\booktitleTomus A. Opera Archimedis ex
traditione Maurolyci, curaverunt
Riccardo Bellé, Pier Daniele Napolitani,
Beatrice Sisana, Pisa, Fabrizio Serra
Editore 2022, pp. LXXIV-474,
\booktitleTomus B. De momentis,
curaverunt Riccardo Bellé, Pier Daniele
Napolitani, Beatrice Sisana, adiuvante
Roberta Tucci, Pisa, Fabrizio Serra
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