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Anonymous 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
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Sarah Hart Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--66
Christopher D. Hollings Peter M Neumann OBE (1940--2020) . . . . 67--75
Robin Wilson and
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Renae Satterley Mathematical books and Frankfurt book
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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
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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
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Daniel E. Otero Calculus Gems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--221
Anonymous Society News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
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Amie Morrison and
Isobel Falconer Women's participation in mathematics in
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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
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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
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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
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Anonymous BSHM Meeting News . . . . . . . . . . . 164--169
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Another look at the two Egyptian pyramid
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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
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Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Anonymous A critical rendition to the development
of mathematics education in Nepal: an
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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
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Anonymous Prizes and awards . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68
Anonymous Between music and geometry: a proposal
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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
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze Two contrasting and complementary views
of Göttingen: letters from the first
female Norwegian Ph.D. in mathematics,
Elizabeth Stephansen, to her compatriot
Carl Stòrmer in the winter semester of
1902/3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--100
Christopher D. Hollings and
R. B. Parkinson Ancient Egyptian mathematics in the
early 20th century: a mathematical view
from Kiel, 1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--154
Bismark Singh and
Yesim Akbulut Promoting mathematics via banknotes: two
examples from Turkey . . . . . . . . . . 155--159
Brigitte Stenhouse BSHM Meeting News . . . . . . . . . . . 160--161
Elisa Belotti and
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Paolo Bussotti Report of the International Symposium
Newton & Newton \booktitlePhilosophiae
Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Geneva
Edition ([1739--1742] 1822) University
of Oxford, United Kingdom, September
22--23, 2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162--165
Snezana Lawrence Tony Gardiner (1947--22 January 2024) 166--167
Tony Gardiner and
Isobel Falconer What makes a good maths teacher? The
class of 1942--43 . . . . . . . . . . . 168--175
Benjamin Wardhaugh François de Foix de Candalle: Euclidean
authorship in the sixteenth century . . 177--192
John M. Campbell and
Paul Levrie The Bauer--Ramanujan formula: historical
analyses and perspectives . . . . . . . 193--214
Brian Wood and
Stephen Whitaker The development of Gibbs's dyadic and
implications for the gradient of a
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Brigitte Stenhouse BSHM Meeting News . . . . . . . . . . . 257--258
Anonymous Schools and undergraduate essay prize
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Tony Mann David Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Philip Beeley and
Robin Wilson Richard Simpson . . . . . . . . . . . . 262--264