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Introduction | |
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Geographies and Cultures | |
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Global | |
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What was mathematics in the ancient world? Greek and Chinese Perspectives | |
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Mathematics and authority: a case study in Old and New World accounting | |
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Heavenly learning, statecraft, and scholarship: the Jesuits and their mathematics in China | |
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The internationalization of mathematics in a world of nations, 1800-1960 | |
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Regional | |
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The two cultures of mathematics in ancient Greece | |
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Tracing mathematical networks in seventeenth-century England | |
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Mathematics and mathematics education in traditional Vietnam | |
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A Balkan trilogy: mathematics in the Balkans before World War I | |
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Local | |
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Mathematics education in an Old Babylonian scribal school | |
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The archaeology of mathematics in an ancient Greek city | |
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Engineering the Neapolitan state | |
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Observatory mathematics in the nineteenth century | |
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People and Practices | |
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Lives | |
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Patronage of the mathematical sciences in Islamic societies | |
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John Aubrey and the 'Lives of our English mathematical writers' | |
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Introducing mathematics, building an empire: Russia under Peter I | |
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Human computers in eighteenth - and nineteenth-century Britain | |
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Practices | |
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Mixing, building, and feeding: mathematics and technology in ancient Egypt | |
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Siyaq: numerical notation and numeracy in the Persianate world | |
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Learning arithmetic: textbooks and their users in England 1500-1900 | |
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Algorithms and automation: the production of mathematics and textiles | |
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Presentation | |
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The cognitive and cultural foundations of numbers | |
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Sanskrit mathematical verse | |
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Antiquity, nobility, and utility: picturing the Early Modern mathematical sciences | |
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Writing the ultimate mathematical textbook: Nicolas Bourbaki's �l�ments de math�matique | |
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Interactions and Interpretations | |
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Intellectual | |
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People and numbers in early imperial China | |
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Mathematics in fourteenth-century theology | |
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Mathematics, music, and experiment in late seventeenth-century England | |
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Modernism in mathematics | |
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Mathematical | |
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The transmission of the Elements to the Latin West: three case studies | |
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'Gigantic implements of war': images of Newton as a mathematician | |
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From cascades to calculus: Rolle's theorem | |
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Abstraction and application: new contexts, new interpretations in twentieth-century mathematics | |
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Historical | |
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Traditions and myths in the historiography of Egyptian mathematics | |
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Reading ancient Greek mathematics | |
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Number, shape, and the nature of space: thinking through Islamic art | |
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The historiography and history of mathematics in the Third Reich | |
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About the contributors | |
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Index | |