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Books

• The proceedings of the Symposium held on the occasion of the Centennial of ICMI in Rome, from 5 to 8 March 2008 are now published. The price of the volume is 60 Euros (about 90 USD) shipping fees included. The request form is available at the Symposium's website: http://www.unige.ch/math/EnsMath/Rome2008
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• Beery , Janet and Stedall , Jacqueline . 2009 . Thomas Harriot's doctrine of triangular numbers: the ‘Magisteria magna’ , European Mathematical Society .
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• ‘Biographiq’, Blaise Pascal: French mathematician and religious philosopher, Filiquarian Publishing, 2008
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• Bogolyubov , N N . 2008 . Euler and modern science , Mathematical Association of America .
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• van Brummelen , Glen . 2009 . The mathematics of the heavens and the earth: the early history of trigonometry , Princeton University Press .
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• Burdick , Bruce Stanley . 2009 . Mathematical works printed in the Americas, 1554–1700 , Johns Hopkins University Press .
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• Caramalho Domingues , Joao . 2008 . Lacroix and the calculus , Birkhauser .
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• Cooke , Roger . 2008 . Classical algebra: its nature, origins, and uses , Wiley .
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• Gray , Jeremy . 2008 . Plato's Ghost: the modernist transformation of mathematics , Princeton University Press .
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• Petzold , Charles . 2008 . The annotated Turing: a guided tour through Alan Turing's historic paper on computability and the Turing Machine , Wiley .
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• Soifer , Alexander . 2008 . The mathematical coloring book: mathematics of coloring and the colorful life of its creators , Springer .
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• Robson , Eleanor and Stedall , Jacqueline (eds) . 2009 . The Oxford handbook of the history of mathematics , Oxford University Press .
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• Wilson , Robin . 2008 . Lewis Carroll in numberland: his fantastical mathematical logical life , Penguin .
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