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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 | |