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The Oxford handbook of the history of mathematics

Introduction

GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES

1. Global

What was mathematics in the ancient world? Greek and Chinese perspectives / G E R Lloyd

Mathematics and authority: a case study in and Old and New World accounting / Gary Urton

Heavenly learning, statecraft, and scholarship: the Jesuits and their mathematics in China / Catherine Jami

The internationalization of mathematics in a world of nations, 1800-1960 / Karen Hunger Parshall

2. Regional

The two cultures of mathematics in ancient Greece / Markus Asper

Tracing mathematical networks in seventeenth-century England / Jacqueline Stedall

Mathematics and mathematics education in traditional Vietnam / Alexei Volkov

A Balkan trilogy: mathematics in the Balkans before World War I / Snezana Lawrence

3. Local

Mathematics education in an Old Babylonian scribal school / Eleanor Robson

The archaeology of mathematics in an ancient Greek city / David Gilman Romano

Engineering the Neapolitan state / Massimo Mazzotti

Observatory mathematics in the nineteenth century / David Aubin. PEOPLE AND PRACTICES

4. Lives

Patronage of the mathematical sciences in Islamic societies / Sonja Brentjes

John Aubrey and the 'Lives of our English mathematical writers' / Kate Bennett

Introducing mathematics, building an empire: Russia under Peter I / Irina Gouzevitch and Dmitri Gouzevitch

Human computers in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain / Mary Croarken

5. Practices

Mixing, building, and feeding: mathematics and technology in ancient Egypt / Corinna Rossi

Siyaq: numerical notation and numeracy in the Persianate world / Brian Spooner and William Hanaway

Learning arithmetic: textbooks and their users in England 1500-1900 / John Denniss

Algorithms and automation: the production of mathematics and textiles / Carrie Brezine

6. Presentation

The cognitive and cultural foundations of numbers / Stephen Chrisomalis

Sanskrit mathematical verse / Kim Plofker

Antiquity, nobility, and utility: picturing the Early Modern mathematical sciences / Volker R. Remmert

Writing the ultimate mathematical textbook: Nicolas Bourbaki's Elements de mathematique / Leo Corry. INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS

7. Intellectual

People and numbers in early imperial China / Christopher Cullen

Mathematics in fourteenth-century theology / Mark Thakkar

Mathematics, music, and experiment in late seventeenth-century England / Benjamin Wardhaugh

Modernism in mathematics / Jeremy Gray

8. Mathematical

The transmission of the Elements to the Latin West: three case studies / Sabine Rommevaux

'Gigantic implements of war': images of Newton as a mathematician / Niccolò Guicciardini

From cascades to calculus: Rolle's theorem / June Barrow-Green

Abstraction and application: new contexts, new interpretations in twentieth-century mathematics / Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen

9. Historical

Traditions and myths in the historiography of Egyptian mathematics / Annette Imhausen

Reading ancient Greek mathematics / Ken Saito

Number, shape, and the nature of space: thinking through Islamic art / Carol Bier

The historiography and history of mathematics in the Third Reich / Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze


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