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Volume 19, Number S1, 2004Anonymous Volume 19, Supplement . . . . . . . . . 1--19
Anonymous Volume 20, Number 1, 2005 (Bulletin 4) 1--58
Anonymous Volume 20, Number 2, 2005 (Bulletin 5) 1--66
Anonymous Volume 20, Number 3, 2005 (Bulletin 6) 1--46
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 June Barrow-Green `Much necessary for all sortes of men': 450 years of Euclid's \booktitleElements in English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--25 John Denniss Arithmetical textbooks 1478 to 1886: a progression? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--33 Alexander Marr Making a mathematical textbook: Mutio Oddi's \booktitleDello squadro . . . . . 34--39 Rod Gow Letters of William Emerson and Francis Holliday to the publisher, John Nourse 40--50 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--58 Anonymous Other meetings and events . . . . . . . 59--72 Anonymous Recent publications . . . . . . . . . . 67--72
Bob Burn The Neil Bibby Lecture 2006: From Archimedes to limits: understanding real analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--85 David Kaye Using the history of mathematics in training adult numeracy teachers . . . . 86--89 Snezana Lawrence Maths is good for you: web-based history of mathematics resources for young mathematicians (and their teachers) . . 90--96 Jan van Maanen Diagrams and mathematical reasoning: some points, lines, and figures . . . . 97--101 Chris Pritchard Bagatelle as the inspiration for Galton's Quincunx . . . . . . . . . . . 102--110 Christopher David Hollings The history of the 2-, 4- and 8-square identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--118 A. W. F. Edwards An eleventh-century Venn diagram . . . . 119--121 Alex Craik Arthur Mee's \booktitleChildren's encyclopedia revisited . . . . . . . . . 122--126 Graham Jagger The will of Henry Briggs . . . . . . . . 127--131 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--142 Anonymous Other meetings and events . . . . . . . 143--151 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--154 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--157 Anonymous Recent publications . . . . . . . . . . 158--161
Jackie Stedall Editorial [Conference on Victorian Mathematics] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163 Adrian Rice British mathematics 1837--1901 . . . . . 164--177 Jeremy Gray Overstating their case? Reflections on British mathematics in the nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--185 Karen Hunger Parshall The British development of the theory of invariants (1841--1895) . . . . . . . . 186--199 Raymond Flood Mathematics in Victorian Ireland . . . . 200--211 Rod Gow Life and work of George Salmon (1819--1904) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--218 M. Eileen Magnello Victorian vital and mathematical statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--229 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--233 Anonymous Other meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--235 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--238 Anonymous Recent publications . . . . . . . . . . 239--244
Martin Campbell-Kelly From the world brain to the World Wide Web Annual Gresham College BSHM Lecture 1--10 Abhilasha Aggarwal Mathematical books for and in India in the nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . 11--21 David Klein A quarter century of US `math wars' and political partisanship . . . . . . . . . 22--33 Paul Kunkel The tangency problem of Apollonius: three looks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--46 Anonymous A letter in response to Chris Pritchard's article on Galton's Quincunx 47--47 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--50 Anonymous Other meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--71 Anonymous Recent publications . . . . . . . . . . 72--76
Anonymous Perceptions of mathematics and its history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77 Judith V. Grabiner Why should historical truth matter to mathematicians? Dispelling myths while promoting maths . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--91 Mel Bayley \em Hard times and statistics . . . . . 92--103 Alexander Karp `We all meandered through our schooling$ \ldots $': notes on Russian mathematics education in the early nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--119 Nikos Kastanis American pestalozzianism in Greek mathematical education 1830--1836 . . . 120--132 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--138 Anonymous Other meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--139 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--145 Anonymous Recent publications . . . . . . . . . . 146--149
Benjamin Wardhaugh Poor Robin and Merry Andrew: mathematical humour in Restoration England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--159 John Mason Bartering problems in arithmetic books 1450--1890 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--181 Elizabeth Boag Lattice multiplication . . . . . . . . . 182--184 Bob Burn Geometric progressions . . . . . . . . . 183--184 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--191 Anonymous Other meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--193 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--195 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--200 Anonymous Recent publications . . . . . . . . . . 201--205
Jeremy Gray A short life of Euler . . . . . . . . . 1--12 Robin Wilson Euler's combinatorial mathematics . . . 13--23 Roger Mallion A contemporary Eulerian walk over the bridges of Kaliningrad . . . . . . . . . 24--36 John Coates Euler's work on Zeta and $L$-functions and their special values . . . . . . . . 37--41 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--47 Anonymous Other meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--50 Anonymous Recent publications . . . . . . . . . . 51--55
Jackie Stedall Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--57 John Ceres Amson Gregory's meridian line of 1673--74: a St. Andrews detective story . . . . . . 58--72 Muriel Seltman The \booktitleArtis analyticae praxis of Harriot and Warner in focus . . . . . . 73--80 Amy Ackerberg-Hastings John Playfair on British decline in mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--95 Charlotte Simmons William Rowan Hamilton and George Boole 96--102 Chris Pritchard Mistakes concerning a chance encounter between Francis Galton and John Venn . . 103--108 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--118 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122 Anonymous Recent publications . . . . . . . . . . 123--127
Kathleen Clark and Eleanor Robson Ancient accounting in the modern mathematics classroom . . . . . . . . . 129--142 Fenny Smith The influence of Amatino Manucci and Luca Pacioli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--156 Uffe Thomas Jankvist A teaching module on the history of public-key cryptography and RSA . . . . 157--168 Peter M. Neumann The history of symmetry and the asymmetry of history . . . . . . . . . . 169--177 Simon R. Blackburn A mathematical walk in Surrey . . . . . 178--180 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--188 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--194 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--199 Anonymous Recent publications . . . . . . . . . . 200--204
Daniel Mintz The hunt for the lost cities of Ptolemy 1--11 Kristín Bjarnadóttir A puzzle rhyme from 1782 . . . . . . . . 12--19 Ma\lgorzata Przenioslo International mathematical journals published in Poland between the wars . . 20--26 David Anderson The contribution of M H A Newman and his mathematicians to the creation of the Manchester `Baby' . . . . . . . . . . . 27--39 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--47 Ferdinando Arzarello and Fulvia Furinghetti and Livia Giacardi and Marta Menghini News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--49 Rhian Parker and Ken Houston and Peter M. Neumann and Janet Beery and David Klein Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--61 Anonymous Recent publications . . . . . . . . . . 62--66
Norman Biggs Mathematics of currency and exchange: arithmetic at the end of the thirteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--77 Janet L. Beery Formulating figurate numbers . . . . . . 78--91 Janet Heine Barnett Mathematics goes ballistic: Benjamin Robins, Leonhard Euler, and the mathematical education of military engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--104 Andreas Christiansen Bernt Michael Holmboe (1795--1850) and his mathematics textbooks . . . . . . . 105--113 John Sharp and Martin Perkins and Jenny Ramsden BSHM Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--116 Benjamin Wardhaugh Other Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--118 Anonymous News and Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120 Massimo Mazzotti and Mark McCartney and Anthony V. Piccolino and Snezana Lawrence and Amirouche Moktefi Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130 Anonymous Recent Publications . . . . . . . . . . 131--134
Angelo de Bruycker `To the adornment and honour of the city': the mathematics course of the Flemish Jesuits in the seventeenth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--146 Marit Hartveit How Flora got her cap: the higher education of women in Edinburgh . . . . 147--158 Craig Stephenson George Darwin's lectures on Hill's lunar theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--171 Christopher Hollings Anton Kazimirovich Suschkewitsch (1889--1961) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172--179 Shirley B. Gray A detective story continued . . . . . . 180--184 Anonymous BSHM Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--188 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190 Tony Mann and Tony Crilly and Shelley Costa and Charles Care and Robin Wilson and Jackie Stedall Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--199 Anonymous Recent publications . . . . . . . . . . 200--202
Jackie Stedall Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Glen van Brummelen Filling in the short blanks: musings on bringing the historiography of mathematics to the classroom . . . . . . 2--9 June Barrow-Green Euler as an Educator . . . . . . . . . . 10--22 Alex D. D. Craik William Wallace's chorograph (1839): a rare mathematical instrument . . . . . . 23--31 Polly Thanailaki Breaking social barriers: Florentia Fountoukli (1869--1915) . . . . . . . . 32--38 Chris Weeks BSHM Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--40 Anonymous Other meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43 Liba Taub and Daniel V. Mintz and Annette Imhausen and Jan van Maanen Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--51 Anonymous Recent publications . . . . . . . . . . 52--55
Jackie Stedall Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--57 Tony Mann From Sylvia Plath's \booktitleThe bell jar to the \booktitleBad Sex Award: a partial account of the uses of mathematics in fiction . . . . . . . . . 58--66 Benjamin Wardhaugh `Let us put on the shade of Newton': Isaac Newton on stage, 1829--2006 . . . 67--80 Marilyn Gaull From \em Tristram Shandy to Bertrand Russell: fiction and mathematics . . . . 81--91 Alice Jenkins Mathematics and mental health in early nineteenth-century England . . . . . . . 92--103 David Bellos Mathematics, poetry, fiction: the adventure of the Oulipo . . . . . . . . 104--118 Anonymous BSHM Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--121 Anonymous Other meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--126 Chris Weeks and Tony Mann Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--128 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Jackie Stedall Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--131 Kathleen M. Clark Connecting local history, ancient history, and mathematics: the Eustis Elementary School pilot project . . . . 132--143 Jenneke Krüger Lessons from the early seventeenth century for mathematics curriculum design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--161 Garrod Musto Mathematical timelines . . . . . . . . . 162--167 Michael Kourkoulos and Constantinos Tzanakis History, and students' understanding of variance in statistics . . . . . . . . . 168--178 Anonymous BSHM Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--180 Alexander Marr and Jeremy Gray and Benjamin Wardhaugh and Birgit Bergmann and Jackie Stedall Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--189 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Kathryn James Reading numbers in early modern England 1--16 Alex D. D. Craik and John J. O'Connor Some unknown documents associated with William Wallace (1768--1843) . . . . . . 17--28 Mark McCartney The poetic life of James Clerk Maxwell 29--43 Stephen Morris and Orlena Gotel The role of flow charts in the early automation of applied mathematics . . . 44--52 Anonymous BSHM Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--57 Judith V. Grabiner and Thomas L. Drucker and David E. Rowe and Jean-Guy Prévost and Laurent Mazliak and Jeffrey A. Oaks Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--70
Sandra Monteferrante Maya mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--79 Jorge Nuno Silva On mathematical games . . . . . . . . . 80--104 Richard Decesare William Ludlam: portrait of an eighteenth-century mathematician . . . . 105--117 Giuseppe Bruno and Andrea Genovese and Gennaro Improta Routing problems: a historical perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--127 Jenny Ramsden BSHM Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--128 Benjamin Wardhaugh Other Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--129 John Mason and Keith Hannabuss Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--134
Jennifer M. Rampling The Elizabethan mathematics of everything: John Dee's `\booktitleMathematicall praeface' to Euclid's \booktitleElements . . . . . . 135--146 Katie Taylor Vernacular geometry: between the senses and reason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--159 Snezana Lawrence Dee and his books: lessons from the history of mathematics for primary and middle school teachers . . . . . . . . . 160--166 Amanda Saxon Dean An investigation of pedagogical techniques in Descartes' \booktitleLa géométrie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--177 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--182 Toke Knudsen and Mikkel Willum Johansen and James Byrne Book Review: Glen van Brummelen, \booktitleThe mathematics of the heavens and the earth: the early history of trigonometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--188
Serafina Cuomo Exploring ancient Greek and Roman numeracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12 M. Eileen Magnello Victorian statistical graphics and the iconography of Florence Nightingale's polar area graph . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--37 Deborah Kent Alice Bache Gould: mathematician in search of war work, 1918 . . . . . . . . 38--49 Alex D. D. Craik The \em popular lectures and addresses of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs (1824--1907) . . . . . . . . . . . 50--55 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--59 Anonymous Other meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--61 Donald L. Opitz and Luke Hodgkin and Snezana Lawrence Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--69 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71
Tony Mann From prehistoric balls to contemporary fiction: what the history of mathematics has done for me . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--81 Jane Wess Avoiding arithmetic, or the material culture of not learning mathematics . . 82--106 Madeline Muntersbjorn On the intellectual heritage of Henri Poincaré . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--118 Ngai Ying Wong and Kwok Chun Tang Mathematics education in Hong Kong under colonial rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--125 Jackie Stedall and Robin Wilson BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--126 Christopher Hollings and Judith V. Grabiner Mich\`ele Audin, Fatou, Julia, Montel: the Great Prize of mathematical sciences of 1918, and beyond . . . . . . . . . . 127--130
D. R. Lloyd How old are the Platonic solids? . . . . 131--140 Elizabeth F. Lewis (Née Rudge) P G Tait's schoolboy introduction to complex numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--154 Stefanie Eminger \em Viribus unitis! shall be our watchword: the first International Congress of Mathematicians, held 9--11 August 1897 in Zurich . . . . . . . . . 155--168 Jemma Lorenat Not set in stone: nineteenth-century geometrical constructions and the Malfatti problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--180 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--183 Rosanna Cretney and Indra Kagis McEwen and Melanie Bayley and Alexei Volkov Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--191
Alexander Lee Goals and scope of the Archimedes Palimpsest transcriptions . . . . . . . 1--15 Robert E. Bradley De l'Hôpital, Bernoulli, and the genesis of \booktitleAnalyse des infiniment petits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--24 Peter Frejd Old algebra textbooks: a resource for modern teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--36 Henrik Kragh Sòrensen What's Abelian about abelian groups? . . 37--51 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--53 Katherine Steiner and Leo Rogers Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--58 Anonymous News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--63
Jackie Stedall Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65 Norman Biggs Thomas Harriot on continuous compounding 66--74 Ian Anderson and Tony Crilly Robert Richard Anstice (1813--1853): a Hertfordshire bicentenary . . . . . . . 75--83 Raymond Flood James Clerk Maxwell (BSHM--Gresham Lecture 2012) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--96 James Rauff The chicken went into the bush and never came back: a note on infinity . . . . . 97--100 Robin Wilson BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--106 Mark A. Peterson and Richard J. Oosterhoff Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the mathematical culture of late Renaissance Italy/Galileo's muse: Renaissance mathematics and the arts . . 107--111
Tony Mann Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--113 Bob Burn Root 2: the early evidence and later conjectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114--120 Stephen Cooper and Ashley Cooper The Father of Local History and the duplication of the exchequer, 1480 . . . 121--123 Alex D. D. Craik In search of Thomas Knight: Part 2 . . . 124--131 Ian Anderson and Tony Crilly The mathematician who drove whist forward: William Henry Whitfeld (1856--1915) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--142 Daniel Tisdale Sieve of war: the legacy of Jitsuro Nagura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--155 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--163 Anonymous Other meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--165 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--169
Tony Mann Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--1 Mirko Deji\'c How the old Slavs (Serbs) wrote numbers 2--17 Daisy Hildyard John Pell's mathematical papers and the Royal Society's \booktitleEnglish Atlas, 1678--82 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--31 João Caramalho Domingues The repercussion of José Anastácio da Cunha in Britain and USA in the nineteenth century . . . . . . . . . . . 32--50 Michiyo Nakane Did Weierstrass's differential calculus have a limit-avoiding character? His definition of a limit in $ \epsilon - \delta $ style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59 Ivor Grattan-Guinness Hans Wussing and Christoph Scriba: an appreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--67 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--70 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--79 Jackie Stedall News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Giuseppe Bruno and Andrea Genovese and Gennaro Improta A historical perspective on location problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--97 David R. Bellhouse The deification of Newton in 1711 . . . 98--110 Christopher Hollings Investigating a claim for Russian priority in the abstract definition of a ring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--119 Uffe Thomas Jankvist A historical teaching module on `the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics': Boolean algebra and Shannon circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--133 Anonymous BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--136 Anonymous Other meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--138 Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--145 David Martin News and notices . . . . . . . . . . . . 146--152
Tony Mann Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--153 D. T. Whiteside `And John Napier created logarithms$ \ldots $ ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--166 Joachim Fischer and Bärbel Ruess Napier revisited, or a new look at the computation of his logarithms . . . . . 167--183 Lukas M. Verburgt Remarks on the idealist and empiricist interpretation of frequentism: Robert Leslie Ellis versus John Venn . . . . . 184--195 Robin Wilson In the footsteps of Euler and MacMahon: combinatorics, the mathematics that counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--209 Mairi Walker BSHM Research in Progress . . . . . . . 210--211 Peter Rowlett Brass for Brain: Lord Kelvin and tide prediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--213 Richard Simpson A Joint Meeting of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation and the British Society for the History of Mathematics in celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the publication of John Napier's \booktitleMirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--214 Benjamin Wardhaugh Printing mathematics in the early modern world Research symposium . . . . . . . . 215--216 Thomas Sonar Book Review: \booktitleThe history of mathematics: a very short introduction, by Jacqueline Stedall . . . . . . . . . 217--219 Adrian Rice Book Review: \booktitleJames Clerk Maxwell. Perspectives on his life and work, by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney and Andrew Whitaker (eds) . . . . . . . 219--221 I. Grattan-Guinness Addendum on Wussing and Scriba [MR3169973] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222--222 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi
Tony Mann Editorial [Note on the deaths of Jackie Stedall and Ivor Grattan-Guinness] . . . 1--1 Alessandra Petrocchi A new theoretical approach to sample problems and deductive reasoning in Sanskrit mathematical texts . . . . . . 2--19 Eisso J. Atzema From Brahmagupta to Euler: on the formula for the area of a cyclic quadrilateral . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--34 Cheryl Periton The medieval counting table revisited: a brief introduction and description of its use during the early modern period 35--49 Kristina Leifeste Brantley A forgotten contrivance: a study of the diagonal scale and its appearance in mathematics texts from 1714 to the present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--66 Peter Rowlett `The unplanned impact of mathematics' and its implications for research funding: a discussion-led educational activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--74 Robin Wilson Joint meeting of the BSHM and the IMA North-West Branch . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75 Terry Froggatt Counting and Calculation, a Journey through Practical Mathematics . . . . . 75--77 Colin Turner Physicists & Mathematicians of Belfast --- joint BSHM/Institute of Physics event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77 Robin Wilson Non-Western Mathematics . . . . . . . . 77--78 Robin Wilson British Science Festival . . . . . . . . 78--79 Robin Wilson History of Mathematics Film Day . . . . 79--79 Adrian Rice BSHM/Gresham College joint meeting on the History of Statistics . . . . . . . 79--80 Robin Wilson The history of mathematics in 300 stamps 80--81 John Denniss Book Review: \booktitleRewriting the history of school mathematics in North America 1607--1861: the central role of cyphering books, by Nerida Ellerton and M. A. (Ken) Clements . . . . . . . . . . 82--83 Michalis Sialaros Book Review: \booktitleThe King of Infinite Space: Euclid and his Elements, by David Berlinski . . . . . . . . . . . 83--85 Christopher Hollings Book Review: \booktitleThe Moscow Pythagoreans: Mathematics, Mysticism, and Anti-Semitism in Russian Symbolism, by Ilona Svetlikova . . . . . . . . . . 85--86 Ida Stamhuis Book Review: \booktitleStatistics, Public Debate and the State, 1800--1945: A Social, Political and Intellectual History of Numbers, by Jean-Guy Prévost and Jean-Pierre Beaud . . . . . . . . . 87--88 Tony Mann Book Review: \booktitleRobert Recorde: the Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician, by Gareth Roberts and Fenny Smith (editors) . . . . . . . . . 89--89 Bob Burn Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
Tony Mann Editorial [The passing of Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Jackie Stedall] . . 93--93 Adrian Rice Obituary: Ivor Grattan-Guinness (23 June 1941--12 December 2014) . . . . . . . . 94--101 Dirk Huylebrouck Observations about Leonardo's drawings for Luca Pacioli . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--112 Alex D. D. Craik A Book for the King: John Geddy's \booktitleMethodi sive compendii mathematici (1586) . . . . . . . . . . . 113--130 David R. Bellhouse Mathematicians and the early English life insurance industry . . . . . . . . 131--142 Juan Carlos Ponce-Campuzano and Miguel Ángel Maldonado-Aguilar Vito Volterra's construction of a nonconstant function with a bounded, non-Riemann integrable derivative . . . 143--152 Rolf Nossum and Jan Kot\rulek The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning as a patron of refugee mathematicians . . . . . . . . . 153--167 Robin Wilson BSHM Christmas Meeting . . . . . . . . . 168--169 Fenny Smith Research in Progress . . . . . . . . . . 169--171 Joachim Schwermer Book Review: \booktitleEmil Artin's Iceland Journal 1925: ``A World of Good'', edited by Tom Artin (ed) and Karin Tate (trans) . . . . . . . . . . . 172--173 William Poole Book Review: \booktitleThe Correspondence of John Wallis (1616--1703) Volume IV (1672--April 1675), edited by Philip Beeley and Christoph J Scriba . . . . . . . . . . . 174--175
Tony Mann Editorial: [Sixth Joint Meeting of the BSHM and the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics] 177--177 Eleanor Robson Subverting expectations: memories of editing with Jackie . . . . . . . . . . 178--182 Fabio Bellissima Propositions VIII.4--5 of Euclid's \booktitleElements and the compounding of ratios on the monochord . . . . . . . 183--199 James L. Hunt and John Sharp Decoding William Scrots' anamorphic portrait of Edward VI . . . . . . . . . 200--216 Derek Ball `Thick-rinded fruit of the tree of knowledge': mathematics education in George Eliot's novels . . . . . . . . . 217--226 Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach Women mathematicians in France in the mid-twentieth century . . . . . . . . . 227--242 Fatma Kayan Fadlelmula Pre-service teachers' point of views about learning history of mathematics: a case study in Turkey . . . . . . . . . . 243--252 Tony Crilly BSHM--LMS De Morgan Day . . . . . . . . 253--255 Robin Wilson Sixth BSHM--CSHPM Joint Meeting . . . . 255--259 Andrew Whitaker The Third Irish History of Mathematics Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260--260 Douglas Jesseph Book Review: \booktitleThe tangled origins of the Leibnizian calculus: a case study of a mathematical revolution, by Richard C Brown . . . . . . . . . . . 261--263 Jonathan P. Bowen Book Review: \booktitleIt began with Babbage: the genesis of computer science, by Subrata Dasgupta . . . . . . 263--265 Anonymous Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . ebi
Adrian Rice and Ezra Brown Commutativity and collinearity: a historical case study of the interconnection of mathematical ideas. Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14 S. Negrepontis and G. Tassopoulos Theodorus' proofs of incommensurabilities with gnomons . . . 15--30 Richard DeCesare Robert Patterson: American `revolutionary' mathematician . . . . . 31--46 Lukas M. Verburgt Robert Leslie Ellis, William Whewell and Kant: the role of Rev H F C Logan . . . 47--51 Michael Friedman Two beginnings of geometry and folding: Hermann Wiener and Sundara Row . . . . . 52--68 Christopher Hollings A tale of mathematical myth-making: E. T. Bell and the `arithmetization of algebra' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--80 Adrian Rice Book Review: \booktitleTaming the unknown: a history of algebra from antiquity to the early twentieth century, by Victor J Katz and Karen Hunger Parshall . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--83 Stephanie Crampin A note on some recent mathematical histories/\booktitleA curious history of mathematics, by Joel Levy/\booktitleThe universe in zero words, by Dana Mackenzie/\booktitle17 equations that changed the world, by Ian Stewart/\booktitleMaths in 100 key breakthroughs, by Richard Elwes . . . . 83--86 Thomas Drucker Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . 87--87
Tony Mann Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--89 Adrian Rice and Ezra Brown Commutativity and collinearity: a historical case study of the interconnection of mathematical ideas. Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--103 Raffaele Pisano Details on the mathematical interplay between Leonardo da Vinci and Luca Pacioli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--111 Bob Burn Early tables resembling those of natural logarithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--122 Donal Murphy George Boole and Walsh's delusions . . . 123--127 Elizabeth F. Lewis P G Tait's statistical models . . . . . 128--143 Günhan Caglayan Exploring the lunes of Hippocrates in a dynamic geometry environment . . . . . . 144--153 Peter M. Lee George Eliot and mathematics . . . . . . 154--154 Stephen Senn Book Review: \booktitleA Chronicle of Permutation Statistical Methods: 1920--2000, and Beyond, by K. J. Berry, J. E. Johnston, and P. J. W. Mielke . . 155--156 Donald L. Opitz Book Review: \booktitleSeduced by logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian revolution, by Robyn Arianrhod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--158
Tony Mann Editorial [John Earle] . . . . . . . . . 159--159 Raffaele Pisano and Paolo Bussotti A Newtonian tale details on notes and proofs in Geneva edition of Newton's \booktitlePrincipia . . . . . . . . . . 160--178 John Sharp Folding the regular pentagon . . . . . . 179--188 J. F. Harper Defining continuity of real functions of real variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--204 Kathleen M. Clark and Emmet P. Harrington The Paul A. M. Dirac papers at Florida State University: a search for informal mathematical investigations . . . . . . 205--214 Emin Aydìn and Ali Delice and Derya Demiro\uglu An analysis of history of mathematics research literature in Turkey: the mathematics education perspective . . . 215--229 James V. Rauff The algebra of marriage: an episode in applied group theory . . . . . . . . . . 230--244 Raymond Flood BSHM/Gresham College meeting: Women in Mathematics: A Celebration of the Bicentenary of Ada Lovelace Gresham College, London, 29 October 2015 . . . . 245--246 Tony Crilly BSHM Christmas meeting Birmingham, 5 December 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--249 Mark McCartney Research in Progress The Queen's College, Oxford, 27 February 2016 . . . 249--249 Christopher D. Hollings The History of Number Theory, Birkbeck, 21 May 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250--252 Jane Wess John Wallis (1616--1703). Mathematics, Music Theory, and Cryptography in 17th Century Oxford. Oxford University Mathematical Institute, 9 June 2016 . . 252--253 Dorothy Leddy Mathematics in the Enlightenment Rewley House, Oxford, 25 June 2016 . . . . . . 254--256 Dorothy Leddy Mathematical Communication during the Cold War: Mathematical Institute, Oxford, 8 July 2016 . . . . . . . . . . 257--260 Yelda Nasifoglu Book Review: \booktitleArchitecture and mathematics from antiquity to the future, Volume I: Antiquity to the 1500s, edited by Kim Williams and Michael J. Ostwald/\booktitleArchitecture and mathematics from antiquity to the future, Volume II: The 1500s to the future, edited by Kim Williams and Michael J. Ostwald . . . . . . . . . . . 261--263 Snezana Lawrence Book Review: \booktitleBirth of a theorem: a mathematical adventure, by Cédric Villani (trans Malcolm DeBevoise, ill Claude Gongard) . . . . . . . . . . 263--265
Tony Mann Editorial [\em mathematics emerging: a tribute to Jakie Stedall and her influence on the history of mathematics] 1--1 Karen Hunger Parshall A plurality of algebras, 1200--1600: algebraic Europe from Fibonacci to Clavius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--16 Robert Goulding and Matthias Schemmel and Dedicated to the memory of Jacqueline Stedall The manuscripts of Thomas Harriot (1560--1621) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19 Thomas Sonar \ldots in the darkest night that is \ldots Briggs, Blundeville, Wright, and the misconception of finding latitude 20--29 Norman Biggs More seventeenth-century networks . . . 30--39 M. Rosa Massa-Esteve Mengoli's mathematical ideas in Leibniz's excerpts . . . . . . . . . . . 40--60 Philip Beeley `To the publike advancement' John Collins and the promotion of mathematical knowledge in Restoration England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--74 Staffan Rodhe A forgotten booklet by Goldbach now rediscovered and three versions of its contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--90 Benjamin Wardhaugh Charles Hutton: `one of the greatest mathematicians in Europe'? . . . . . . . 91--99 Anonymous Mathematics Emerging: A Tribute to Jackie Stedall and her Influence on the History of Mathematics . . . . . . . . . 100--111
Alex D. D. Craik An early Scottish pamphlet on hydraulics and pneumatics: William Welwood's \booktitleDe aqua in altum per fistulas plumbeas facile exprimenda apologia demonstrativa (1582) . . . . . . . . . . 113--124 Robin J. Wilson The Gresham Professors of Geometry. Part 1: the first one hundred years . . . . . 125--135 Robin J. Wilson The Gresham Professors of Geometry. Part 2: the next three hundred years . . . . 136--148 Joseph Gage Undergraduate algebra in nineteenth-century Oxford . . . . . . . 149--159 Ben Fairbairn Louis Joel Mordell's time in London . . 160--169 Masato Takei A remark on the paper `\booktitleSieve of war: the legacy of Jitsuro Nagura' by Daniel Tisdale . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--170 Zuhal Yilmaz and Suat Eren Ozyigit Analysis of real world problems in mathematics textbooks of early twentieth and twenty-first century Turkish education: political and social reflections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--182 Anonymous News Sheet March 2017 . . . . . . . . . 183--183
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Henrik Kragh Sòrensen Studying appropriations of past lives: using metabiographical approaches in the history of mathematics . . . . . . . . . 186--197 Eva Kaufholz-Soldat `[\ldots] the first handsome mathematical lady I've ever seen!' On the role of beauty in portrayals of Sofia Kovalevskaya . . . . . . . . . . . 198--213 Sydney Padua Picturing Lovelace, Babbage, and the Analytical Engine: a cartoonist in mathematical biography . . . . . . . . . 214--220 Christopher Hollings and Ursula Martin and Adrian Rice The early mathematical education of Ada Lovelace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--234 L. Rodríguez Frigyes Riesz between the two World Wars 235--245 Jacqueline M. Dewar Women and mathematics: a course and a scholarly investigation . . . . . . . . 246--253 A. E. L. Davis Mathematical women --- creating historical resources . . . . . . . . . . 254--256 Steven S. Skiena and Charles B. Ward Who's bigger? Where computer scientists really rank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--264 Christopher D. Hollings `Mathematical Biography: A MacTutor Celebration' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Benjamin Wardhaugh Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Anne van Weerden and Steven Wepster A most gossiped about genius: Sir William Rowan Hamilton . . . . . . . . . 2--20 Amirouche Moktefi Did Lewis Carroll own a copy of George Boole's \booktitleLaws of thought? An argument from the sale catalogues . . . 21--28 A. E. L. Davis Woman into Mathematician: The opening of university mathematical education to women in the British Isles: a prosopographical note . . . . . . . . . 29--32 Alexander Karp Mark Vygodsky: several episodes from the life of a scholar . . . . . . . . . . . 33--49 Katie McCallum Mathematics, manifest: a review of \booktitleMathematics: the Winton Gallery at the Science Museum . . . . . 50--53 Robin Wilson Book Review: \booktitleLeonhard Euler: mathematical genius in the Enlightenment, by Ronald S. Calinger . . 54--55 Jocelyn Rodal Book Review: \booktitleLiterature after Euclid: the geometric imagination in the long Scottish Enlightenment, by Matthew Wickman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--57 Paolo Bussotti Book Review: \booktitleDiscovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres, by Clifford Cunningham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--59 Christopher D. Hollings Book Review: \booktitleThe case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin, by Sergei S. Demidov and Boris V. Lëvshin, translated from the Russian by Roger Cooke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--61 Sue Pope and Leo Rogers Anglo--Danish conference on History of Mathematics in Education: Bath Spa, August 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62--67 Isobel Falconer BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68 Anonymous BSHM meeting: The Practice of Mathematics from the Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 68--69 Robin Wilson BSHM/Lewis Carroll Society: The Mathematical World of C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70 Jane Wess BSHM meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--72
F\`atima Romero-Vallhonesta and M. Rosa Massa-Esteve The main sources for the \booktitleArte Mayor in sixteenth century Spain . . . . 73--95 Lukas M. Verburgt A letter of Robert Leslie Ellis to William Walton on probability . . . . . 96--108 Lukas J. A. Stalpers and Edward L. Kaplan Edward L. Kaplan and the Kaplan--Meier Survival Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--135 Richard Simpson Book Review: \booktitleFinding Fibonacci: the quest to rediscover the forgotten mathematical genius who changed the world, by Keith Devlin . . . 136--137 Ronald Calinger Book Review: \booktitleThe early period of the calculus of variations, by Paolo Freguglia and Mariano Giaquinta . . . . 138--139 Christopher Hollings Book Review: \booktitleImages of Italian Mathematics in France: The Latin sisters, from Risorgimento to fascism, by Frédéric Brechenmacher et al. (eds) . . 139--141 Roy Wagner Book Review: \booktitleMathematical knowledge and the interplay of practices, by José Ferreirós . . . . . . . 141--143 Anonymous Research in Progress . . . . . . . . . . 144--146
Benjamin Wardhaugh Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Niccol\`o Guicciardini Un Altro Presente: on the historical interpretation of mathematical texts . . 148--165 Norman Biggs Game, set, and graph . . . . . . . . . . 166--178 Tony Crilly What became of Paul Dirac's classmate? 179--188 Christián C. Carman Book Review: \booktitleA Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World, by Alexander Jones . . . 189--190 Edmund Robertson Book Review: \booktitleGiovanni Domenico Cassini: A Modern Astronomer in the 17th Century, by Gabriella Bernardi . . . . . 191--192 Felix Feather Book Review: \booktitleThe Calculus Story: A Mathematical Adventure, by David Acheson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194 Snezana Lawrence ``What the Tortoise Said to Achilles'': Lewis Carroll's Paradox of Inference, special issue of: \booktitleThe Carrollian: The Lewis Carroll Journal, edited by Amirouche Moktefi and Francine F Abeles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--195 John W. Dawson, Jr. Book Review: \booktitleThe Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age, by Jan Von Plato . . . . . 196--197 Tony Crilly Book Review: \booktitleTen great ideas about chance, by Persi Diaconis and Brian Skyrms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199 Ellen Abrams Book Review: \booktitleAmerican mathematics 1890--1913: catching up to Europe, by Steve Batterson . . . . . . . 200--201 Liam McDonald Book Review: \booktitleWonders beyond numbers: A brief history of all things mathematical, by Johnny Ball . . . . . . 201--203
Anne Teather and Andrew Chamberlain and Mike Parker Pearson The chalk drums from Folkton and Lavant: Measuring devices from the time of Stonehenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--11 Günhan Caglayan Theory of polygonal numbers with Cuisenaire rods manipulatives: Understanding Theon of Smyrna's arithmetic in a history of mathematics classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--22 Emmylou Haffner From modules to lattices: Insight into the genesis of Dedekind's Dualgruppen 23--42 Michael Friedman Mathematical formalization and diagrammatic reasoning: the case study of the braid group between 1925 and 1950 43--59 José María Almira and José Ángel Cid and Julio Ostalé When did Hermann Weyl pass away? . . . . 60--63 Rebekah Higgitt Book Review: Elizabethanne Boran and Mordechai Feingold (eds), \booktitleReading Newton in early modern Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--66 Fiona Spencer Book Review: \booktitleThe path to post-Galilean epistemology: reinterpreting the birth of modern science, by Danilo Capecchi . . . . . . 66--68 Anonymous 2019 Taylor and Francis Early Career Research Prize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Anonymous Prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Anonymous The History of Cryptography and Codes 71--72 Anonymous History Workshop at the British Mathematical Colloquium . . . . . . . . 73--76 Anonymous Mathematics and Patronage . . . . . . . 77--78
Helen Elizabeth Ross and Betty Irene Knott Dicuil (9th century) on triangular and square numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--94 John T. E. Richardson Who introduced Western mathematicians to Latin squares? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--103 Erik R. Tou Bernoullian influences on Leonhard Euler's early fluid mechanics . . . . . 104--117 Glen Van Brummelen Book Review: Jacqueline Feke: \booktitlePtolemy's philosophy: mathematics as a way of life . . . . . . 118--119 Miranda Wood Book Review: Robin Wilson, \booktitleEuler's pioneering equation: the most beautiful theorem in mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--123 Norman Biggs Book Review: Dan Bouk, \booktitleHow our days became numbered: risk and the rise of the statistical individual . . . . . 123--124 Anonymous BSHM Meeting reports . . . . . . . . . . 125--132 Brigitte Stenhouse 29th Novembertagung on the history of mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Kamilla Rekvenyi Paul Erd\Hos's mathematics as a social activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--142
José Antonio Camúñez-Ruiz and María Dolores Pérez-Hidalgo Juan Caramuel (1606--1682) and the Spanish version of the Passedix game . . 143--154 Sian Zelbo The recreational mathematics activities of ordinary nineteenth century Americans: a case study of two mathematics puzzle columns and their contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--178 Alison Maidment and Mark McCartney `A man who has infinite capacity for making things go': Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873--1956) . . . . . . . . . 179--193 Albrecht Heefer Visual culture and mathematics in the early modern period . . . . . . . . . . 194--195 Dorothy Leddy A common family weakness for statistics: essays on Francis Galton, George Darwin and the normal curve of evolutionary biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--197 Matthew Findlay Book Review: David Aubin, \booktitleL'Élite sous la mitraille: les normaliens, les mathématiques et la Grande Guerre, 1900--1925, Éditions Rue d'Ulm, 2018, 374 pp., 25 EUR, ISBN 978-2-7288-0603-4 . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199 Anonymous BSHM Meeting News . . . . . . . . . . . 200--210
Isobel Falconer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Philip Beeley `There are great alterations in the geometry of late'. The rise of Isaac Newton's early Scottish circle . . . . . 3--24 Davide Crippa Beating untrodden paths: James Gregory and his Italian readers . . . . . . . . 25--42 Alex D. D. Craik George Sinclair's neglected Treatises: some influences and reactions . . . . . 43--51 Olivier Bruneau Colin Maclaurin (1698--1746): a Newtonian between theory and practice 52--62 Jane Wess Colin Maclaurin (1698--1746) and his contemporaries on wind and water: the local and the universal . . . . . . . . 63--83 Michael Segre Tartaglia's science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century. Selections from \booktitleQuesiti et inventioni diverse: Books VII--VIII . . 84--85 Jeremy Gray Descriptive geometry, the spread of a polytechnic art: the legacy of Gaspard Monge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87 Christopher D. Hollings A richer picture of mathematics: the Göttingen tradition and beyond . . . . . 87--89 Troy Astarte The discrete charm of the machine: why the world became digital . . . . . . . . 89--91 Martin A. MacBeath Africa and mathematics: from colonial findings back to the Ishango Rods . . . 91--93 Isobel Falconer and (BSHM Meeting Coordinator:) BSHM Meeting News . . . . . . . . . . . 94--104 Anonymous Prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
C. Philipp E. Nothaft Medieval Europe's satanic ciphers: on the genesis of a modern myth . . . . . . 107--136 Sepideh Alassi Jacob Bernoulli's analyses of the \em Funicularia problem . . . . . . . . . . 137--161 Alex D. D. Craik Henry Parr Hamilton (1794--1880) and analytical geometry at Cambridge . . . . 162--170 Leo Rogers Book Review: \booktitleThe history of mathematics: a source-based approach volume 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--173 Fenner Stanley Tanswell Book Review: \booktitle99 Variations on a proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175 Volker Peckhaus Book Review: \booktitleThe mathematical world of Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--177 Isobel Falconer Professor Alexander (Alex) D. D. Craik: 1938--2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178--179 Anonymous BSHM Meeting News . . . . . . . . . . . 180--186 Anonymous Winner of the 2018--19 Taylor and Francis Early Career Prize . . . . . . . 187
Deepak Basyal A mathematical poetry book from Nepal 189--206 Jacques Bair and Piotr B\laszczyk and Elías Fuentes Guillén and Peter Heinig and Vladimir Kanovei and Mikhail G. Katz Continuity between Cauchy and Bolzano: issues of antecedents and priority . . . 207--224 Ellen Abrams `An inalienable prerogative of a liberated spirit': postulating American mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225--245 Tony Crilly Book Review: \booktitlePythagoras' legacy, Marcel Danesi, Oxford University Press, 2020, 167 pp., \pounds 25, ISBN 978-0-19-885224-7 . . . . . . . . . . . 246--247 Joseph W. Dauben Book Review: \booktitleHeavenly numbers. Astronomy and authority in early imperial China, Christopher Cullen, Oxford University Press, 2017, 448pp, \pounds 74, ISBN 978-0-1987-3311-9 . . . 247--251 Annie McQuoid Book Review: \booktitleLeonhard Euler's Letters to a German Princess: A milestone in the history of physics textbooks and more, Ronald S. Calinger, Ekaterina (Katya) Denisova, and Elena N. Polyakhova, Morgan & Claypool, 2019, xvii + 214 pp, pb \pounds 78.95, hb \pounds 98.95, ISBN 978-1-64327-189-7 . . . . . 251--253 Kathleen M. Clark Book Review: \booktitleWomen who count: Honoring African American women mathematicians, Shelly M. Jones, American Mathematical Society, 2020, xiii + 138pp., \$15.00, ISBN 978-1-4704-4889-9} . . . . . . . . . . . 253--255 Anonymous BSHM Meeting News . . . . . . . . . . . 256--262
Norman Biggs Decoding chancery records from the 1240s 1--12 Marcio Alves Diniz and David Richard Bellhouse David Gregory, John Arbuthnot and their roles in the early development of probability in Great Britain . . . . . . 13--22 Joaquim Berenguer Introducing differential calculus in Spain: The fluxion of the product and the quadrature of curves by Tom\`as Cerd\`a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--49 Ciarán Mac an Bhaird Book Review: \booktitleThomas Harriot: a life in science, Robyn Arianrhod, Oxford University Press, 2019, 376 pp, \pounds 19.99, ISBN 978-0-19027-185-5 . . . . . 50--51 Gavin Hitchcock Book Review: \booktitleNew light on George Boole, Desmond MacHale and Yvonne Cohen, Cork University Press, 2018, 492pp, \pounds 13.75, ISBN 978-1-78205-290-6 . . . . . . . . . . . 51--53 Paul Ranford Book Review: \booktitleHot molecules, cold electrons, Paul Nahin, Princeton University Press, 2020, 212 pp, \$24.95, ISBN 978-0-6911-9172-0} . . . . . . . . 53--55 Gert Schubring Book Review: \booktitleDirichlet. A mathematical biography, Uta C. Merzbach, Birkhäuser, 2018, xix + 311 pp., hardback \pounds 89.99, e-book \pounds 71.50, ISBN 978-3-03001-071-3 . . . . . . . . . 55--58 Anonymous BSHM Meeting News . . . . . . . . . . . 59--63 Anonymous Prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--64
Sarah Hart Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66 Christopher D. Hollings Peter M Neumann OBE (1940--2020) . . . . 67--75 Robin Wilson and Raymond Flood The BSHM: the first fifty years . . . . 76--94 Renae Satterley Mathematical books and Frankfurt book fair catalogues: the acquisition of mathematical works by Robert Ashley in early modern London . . . . . . . . . . 95--116 Carl-Fredrik Nyberg-Brodda The B B Newman spelling theorem . . . . 117--131 Natasha Bailie Quantifying the Unquantifiable: the role of the mathematicisation of philosophy during the Scottish Enlightenment . . . 132--139 Anonymous BSHM Meeting News . . . . . . . . . . . 140--149 Dorothy Leddy Society News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Gonzalo Luis Recio Kepler's derivation of the bisection of the earth's orbit in \booktitleAstronomia Nova . . . . . . . 151--169 Jacques Bair and Piotr B\laszczyk and Robert Ely and Mikhail G. Katz and Karl Kuhlemann Procedures of Leibnizian infinitesimal calculus: an account in three modern frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--209 John Aldrich Mathematical women in the British Isles 1878--1940: using the Davis archive . . 210--218 Daniel E. Otero Calculus Gems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--221 Anonymous Society News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Benjamin Wardhaugh Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Amie Morrison and Isobel Falconer Women's participation in mathematics in Scotland, 1730--1850 . . . . . . . . . . 2--23 John D. Bullock and Ronald E. Warwar and H. Bradford Hawley Why was Leonhard Euler blind? . . . . . 24--42 N. H. Bingham and W. J. Krzanowski Linear algebra and multivariate analysis in statistics: development and interconnections in the twentieth century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--63 P. H. Enflo and M. S. Moslehian and J. B Seoane-Sepúlveda A history of solving some famous problems in mathematical analysis . . . 64--80 Norman Biggs William Morgan, Eighteenth-century actuary, mathematician and radical . . . 81--82 Jane Wess Symbols and things: mathematics in the age of steam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--85 Anonymous BSHM Meeting News . . . . . . . . . . . 86--95 Martina R. Schneider `What to solve?' --- on Judita Cofman's research on mathematics and its teaching 96--98 Anonymous Prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Isobel Falconer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102 Peggy Kidwell Mathematical instruments from times of crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--116 Stefano Gulizia Kepler's snow: the epistemic playfulness of geometry in seventeenth-century Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--137 Michael Friedman Metaphorical reactions in 1932: from the mathematical `crisis of intuition' to `reconstruction in the exact sciences' 138--161 Deborah Kent Einstein, Eddington, e o/and the Eclipse: Impressões de Viagem/Travel Impressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--163 Anonymous BSHM Meeting News . . . . . . . . . . . 164--169
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Another look at the two Egyptian pyramid volume `formulas' of 1850 BCE . . . . . 171--178 Jeffrey Oaks Zero and nothing in medieval Arabic arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--211 Ana Patrícia Martins and Teresa Sousa Formulations of the inclusion--exclusion principle from Legendre to Poincaré, with emphasis on Daniel Augusto da Silva . . 212--229 Anne van Weerden Alice without quaternions: another look at the mad tea-party . . . . . . . . . . 230--237 Irene Salas-García and Irene Polo-Blanco and María José González-López Instrument for evaluating historical resources in mathematics textbooks . . . 238--257 Anonymous BSHM meeting news . . . . . . . . . . . 258--265
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Anonymous A critical rendition to the development of mathematics education in Nepal: an anticolonial proposal . . . . . . . . . 3--23 Anonymous The sine anecdote in Kovalevskaya's memoirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--40 Anonymous The construction of the integral for the arc length of a curve based on van Heuraet and Fermat's works . . . . . . . 41--54 Anonymous Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--57 Anonymous BSHM meeting news . . . . . . . . . . . 58--66 Anonymous Prizes and awards . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
Anonymous Between music and geometry: a proposal for the early intended application of Euclid's \booktitleElements Book X . . . 69--96 Anonymous Graphs in the 1680s: Martin Lister, Robert Plot, William Molyneux and John Warner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--106 Anonymous Infinite analytical procedures for the computation of logarithms in works by Benito Bails (1731--1797) . . . . . . . 107--140 Anonymous Through the looking glass, and what algebra found there: historically informed conceptual metaphors of algebraic substitution and Gaussian elimination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--157 Anonymous BSHM Meeting news . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Anonymous British mathematical reformers in the nineteenth century: motivations and methods: Winner of the BSHM undergraduate essay prize 2022 . . . . . 159--167 Anonymous Obituary David Singmaster (December 1938 to 13 February 2023) . . . . . . . . . . 168--173
Daniel F. Mansfield Mesopotamian square root approximation by a sequence of rectangles . . . . . . 175--188 David Acheson Thomas Simpson and Dido's problem . . . 189--193 Jorge Nuno Silva and Pedro Jorge Freitas The Loterias Lisbonenses of Francisco Giraldes Barba . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--207 Andrea Reichenberger Elli Heesch, Heinrich Heesch and Hilbert's eighteenth problem: collaborative research between philosophy, mathematics and application 208--228 Peter Cameron Graph theory in America: the first hundred years . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--230 Brigitte Stenhouse BSHM Meeting News . . . . . . . . . . . 231--232 Anonymous Schools and Undergraduate Essay Prize Winners 2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Isobel Falconer Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 Jane Wess Benjamin Robins: elegant mathematics versus experimental inconvenience? . . . 3--25 Kate Hindle D'Arcy Thompson on flight . . . . . . . 26--35 T. James M. Boyd and Gareth Roberts and Alwyn R. Owens Stability in theory, in the laboratory and in the air: William Ellis Williams' campaign for proof positive (1904--1914) 36--61 T. James M. Boyd Note added in proof . . . . . . . . . . 62--63 Peter Rowlett Generative AI and accuracy in the history of mathematics . . . . . . . . . 64--69 Anonymous Addendum to `Graphs in the 1680s: Martin Lister, Robert Plot, William Molyneux and John Warner' . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Anonymous BSHM meeting news . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72 Anonymous BSHM Neumann Prize Winner 2023 . . . . . 73 Anonymous British Society for the History of Mathematics Prizes and Awards . . . . . 74--75