Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and other tales of mathematical history /
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Table of Contents:
- Ancient mathematics. Sherlock Holmes in Babylon / R. Creighton Buck
- Words and pictures: new light on Plimpton 322 / Eleanor Robson
- Mathematics, 600 B.C.-600 A.D. / Max Dehn
- Diophantus of Alexandria / J.D. Swift
- Hypatia of Alexandria / A.W. Richeson
- Hypatia and her mathematics / Michael A.B. Deakin
- The evolution of mathematics in ancient China / Frank Swetz
- Liu Hui and the first golden age of Chinese mathematics / Philip D. Straffin, Jr.
- Number systems of the North American Indians / W.C. Eells
- The number system of the Mayas / A.W. Richeson
- Before the conquest / Marcia Ascher
- Medieval and renaissance mathematics. The discovery of the series formula for [pi] by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha / Ranjan Roy
- Ideas of calculus in Islam and India / Victor J. Katz
- Was calculus invented in India? / David Bressoud
- An early iterative method for the determinationof sin 1⁰ / Farhad Riahi
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- Leonardo of Pisa and his Liber Quadratorum / R.B. McClenon
- The algorists vs. the abacists: an ancient controversy on the use of calculators / Barbara E. Reynolds
- Sidelights on the Cardan-Tartaglia controversy / Martin A. Nordgaard
- Reading Bombelli's x-purgated algebra / Abraham Arcavi and Maxim Bruckheimer
- The first work on mathematics printed in the New World / David Eugene Smith
- The seventeenth century. An application of geography to mathematics: history of the integral of the secant / V. Frederick Rickey and Philip M. Tuchinsky
- Some historical notes on the cycloid / E.A. Whitman
- Descartes and the problem-solving / Judith Grabiner
- René Descartes' curve-drawing devices: experiments in the relations between mechanical motion and symbolic language / David Dennis
- Certain mathematical achievements of James Gregory / Max Dehn and E.D. Hellinger
- The changing concept of change: the derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass / Judith V. Grabiner
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- The crooked made straight: Roberval and Newton on tangents / Paul R. Wolfson
- On the discovery of the logarithmic series and its development in England up to Cotes / Josef Ehrenfried Hofmann
- Isaac Newton: man, myth and mathematics / V. Frederick Rickey
- Reading the master: Newton and the birth of celestial mechanics / Bruce Pourciau
- Newton as an originator of polar coordinates / C.B. Boyer
- Newton's method for resolving affected equations / Chris Christensen
- A contribution of Leibniz to the history of complex numbers / R.B. McClenon
- Functions of a curve: Leibniz's original notion of functions / David Dennis and Jere Confrey
- The eighteenth century. Brook Taylor and the mathematical theory of linear perspectives / P.S. Jones
- Was Newton's calculus a dead end? The continental influence of Maclaurin's treatise of fluxions / Judith Grabiner
- Discussion of fluxions: from Berkeley to Woodhouse / Florian Cajori
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- The Bernoullis and the harmonic series / William Dunham
- Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 / J.J. Burckhardt
- The number e / J.L. Coolidge
- Euler's vision of a general partial differential calculus for a generalized kind of function / Jesper Lützen
- Euler and the fundamental theorem of algebra / William Dunham
- Euler and differentials / Anthony P. Ferzola
- Euler and quadratic reciprocity / Harold M. Edwards.