Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics

Chapter 1 A Tenth-Century Mathematical Glossary

Chapter 2 Euclid in Marāgha: The Age of the Taḥrı̄r

Chapter 3 The Recreational Problems of Tratado de Prática Darysmetica by Gaspar Nicolas, 1519

Chapter 4 The Mathematics of Polemic in John Napier’s Plaine Discovery

Chapter 5 Euler’s Series for Sine and Cosine: An Interpretation in Nonstandard Analysis

Chapter 6 Agnesi vs. Colson: Did Location Matter?

Chapter 7 The Limits of Understanding and the Understanding of Limits: David Hume’s Mathematical Sources

Chapter 8 Analysis and Synthesis in Robert Simson’s The Elements of Euclid

Chapter 9 Thomas Archer Hirst: Mathematician Xtravagant

Chapter 10 A Cambridge Correspondence Course in Arithmetic for Women

Chapter 11 T. E. Peet, a Mathematician Among Egyptologists?

Chapter 12 Placing a Global Mathematical Literature

Chapter 13 Latin Squares at Rothamsted in the Time of Fisher and Yates

Chapter 14 Les équations différentielles ordinaires « raides » et les méthodes robustes : une approche historique

Chapter 15 The Cavendish Computors : The Women Working in Scientific Computing for Radio Astronomy

Chapter 16 The Algebra Project, Feature Talk, and the History of Mathematics

Chapter 17 Corrupt Land Inspectors: Solving Equations with Picture-Language in Ancient Mesopotamia—A Dialogue

Chapter 18 Entrance into All Obscure Secrets: A Workshop on Bringing Episodes in the History of Mathematics to Life in the Classroom by Means of Theatre, Incorporating a Short Play Set in an Ancient Egyptian Scribal School