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Pages 52-55 | Published online: 29 Jan 2010

Articles

  • Alexanderson , G L . 2009 . ‘About the cover: Christopher Clavius, astronomer and mathematician’ . Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , 46 : 669 – 672 .
  • Almira , J M and Romero , A E . 2009 . ‘A note about Norbert Wiener and his contribution to harmonic analysis and Tauberian theorems’ . Mathematical Models in Engineering, Biology and Medicine , 1124 : 19 – 28 .
  • Ashrafian , H . 2009 . ‘It's all in the hands: the anatomical basis for the use of base 60 by the Ancient Mesopotamians’ (letter) . Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery , 62 : 243
  • Babbitt , D and Goodstein , J . 2009 . ‘Guido Castelnuovo and Francesco Severi: two personalities, two letters’ . Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 56 : 800 – 816 .
  • Balaguer , M . 2009 . ‘Fictionalism, theft, and the story of mathematics’ . Philosophia mathematica , 17 : 131 – 62 .
  • Batterson , S . 2009 . ‘Bocher, Osgood, and the ascendance of American mathematics at Harvard’ . Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 56 : 916 – 930 .
  • Becvárová , M . 2009 . ‘How to fix an election honestly! Ivan Petrov Salabashev's novel voting procedure in Bulgaria, 1879–1880’ . Annals of Science , 66 : 397 – 406 .
  • Bell , A R , Brooks , C and Moore , T K . 2009 . ‘Interest in medieval accounts: examples from England, 1272–1340’ . History , 94 : 411 – 433 .
  • Bellhouse , D R , Renouf , E M , Raut , R and Bauer , M A . 2009 . ‘De Moivre's knowledge community: an analysis of the subscription list to the Miscellanea Analytica’ . Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London , 63 : 137 – 162 .
  • Benyi , A and Casu , I . 2009 . ‘Pompeiu's Theorem revisited’ . College Mathematics Journal , 40 : 252 – 258 .
  • Bockstaele , P . 2009 . ‘Between Viète and Descartes: Adriaan van Roomen and the Mathesis Universalis’ . Archive for History of Exact Sciences , 63 : 433 – 470 .
  • Borel , A . 2009 . ‘Andre Weil’ . Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , 46 : 661 – 666 .
  • Britton , J P . 2009 . ‘Studies in Babylonian lunar theory: Part II. Treatments of lunar anomaly’ . Archive for History of Exact Sciences , 63 : 357 – 431 .
  • Bullynck , M . 2009 . ‘Reading Gauss in the computer age: on the US reception of Gauss's number theoretical work (1938–1989)’ . Archive for History of Exact Sciences , 63 : 553 – 580 .
  • Cardoso , J L . 2009 . ‘F. Solano Constancio on political economy: a “science of proportions”’ . History of European Ideas , 35 : 227 – 235 .
  • Chabas , J and Goldstein , B R . 2009 . ‘John of Murs's Tables of 1321’ . Journal for the History of Astronomy , 40 : 297 – 320 .
  • Charalambous , C Y , Panaoura , A and Philippou , G . 2009 . ‘Using the history of mathematics to induce changes in preservice teachers' beliefs and attitudes: Insights from evaluating a teacher education program’ . Educational Studies in Mathematics , 71 : 161 – 180 .
  • Chemla , K . 2009 . ‘On mathematical problems as historically determined artifacts: Reflections inspired by sources from ancient China’ . Historia mathematica , 36 : 213 – 246 .
  • Chen , H . 2009 . ‘The Fresnel Integrals revisited’ . College Mathematics Journal , 40 : 259 – 262 .
  • Cheng , K C . 2009 . ‘Some observations on the origins of Newton's Law of cooling and its influences on thermofluid science’ . Applied Mechanics Reviews , 62 art. no. 060803. [‘The relationships among Napier's logarithms (1614), Euclid's geometric progression (300 BC), and Newton's law of cooling (1701) are explored.’]
  • Chinnici , I . 2009 . ‘The relationship between the Ramsden Circles at Palermo and Dunsink’ . Journal for the History of Astronomy , 40 : 321 – 334 .
  • Chrisomalis , S . 2009 . ‘Beyond teleology: ancient mathematics and social history’ . Antiquity , 83 : 849 – 851 .
  • Claessens , G . 2009 . ‘Clavius, Proclus, and the limits of interpretation: snapshot-idealization versus projectionism’ . History of Science , 47 : 317 – 336 .
  • Comes , M and Comes , R . 2009 . ‘Mathematical magic squares in al-Andalus: Azarquiel's treatise’ . Al-Qatara , 30 : 137 – 169 .
  • Craik , A D . 2009 . ‘A proportional view: The mathematics of James Glenie (1750–1817)’ . Historia mathematica , 36 : 247 – 272 .
  • Davies , E B . 2009 . ‘Some reflections on Newton's Principia’ . British Journal for the History of Science , 42 : 211 – 24 .
  • Debnath , L . 2009 . ‘The legacy of Leonhard Euler–a tricentennial tribute’ . International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology , 40 : 353 – 388 .
  • Domski , M . 2009 . ‘The intelligibility of motion and construction: Descartes' early mathematics and metaphysics, 1619–1637’ . Studies in History and Philosophy of Science , 40 : 119 – 130 .
  • Fraiture , L . “ ‘A history of the description of the three-dimensional finite rotation’ ” . In in The F Landis Markley Astronautics Symposium (Univelt 2008) 835 – 857 .
  • Gauthier , Y . 2009 . ‘The construction of Chaos Theory’ . Foundations of Science , 14 : 153 – 165 .
  • Geymonat , M . 2009 . ‘Arithmetic and geometry in Ancient Rome: surveyors, intellectuals, and poets’ . Nuncius , 24 : 11 – 34 .
  • Gingerich , O . 2009 . ‘John David North (1934–2008)’ . Journal for the History of Astronomy , 40 : 335 – 338 .
  • Golub , G and Uhlig , F . 2009 . ‘The QR algorithm: 50 years later; its genesis by John Francis and Vera Kublanovskaya and subsequent developments’ . IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis , 29 : 467 – 485 .
  • Goss , V G A . 2009 . ‘The History of the planar elastica: insights into mechanics and scientific method’ . Science and Education , 18 : 1057 – 1082 .
  • Grattan-Guinness , I . 2009 . ‘On Jevons's handling of differential equations in the context of his principle of exchange, and the early reactions’ . History of Political Economy , 41 : 297 – 309 .
  • Hejhal , D . 2009 . ‘Remembering Atle Selberg, 1917–2007’ . Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 56 : 692 – 712 .
  • Hollings , C . 2009 . ‘The early development of the algebraic theory of semigroups’ . Archive for History of Exact Sciences , 63 : 497 – 536 .
  • Hon , G and Zik , Y . 2009 . ‘Kepler's optical part of astronomy (1604): introducing the ecliptic instrument’ . Perspectives on Science , 17 : 307 – 345 .
  • Ishak , S N , Marzuki , N H and Md Ali , J . 2009 . ‘The importance of translation mathematics old script’ . Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences , 3 : 55 – 66 .
  • Jacovkis , M . 2008 . ‘Some aspects of the history of applied mathematics in Argentina’ . Revista de la Union Matematica Argentina , 49 : 57 – 69 .
  • Jansen , L A . 2009 . ‘Consensus and independent judgment in clinical ethics: or what can an eighteenth-century French mathematician teach us about ethics consultation?’ . The Journal of Clinical Ethics , 20 : 56 – 63 .
  • Koleva , V . 2009 . ‘Wooden calendars from the central Rhodopes’ . Publications of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade , 85 : 65 – 86 .
  • Lehavi , Y and Galili , I . 2009 . ‘The status of Galileo's law of free-fall and its implications for physics education’ . American Journal of Physics , 77 : 417 – 423 .
  • Liu , P-H . 2009 . ‘History as a platform for developing college students' epistemological beliefs of mathematics’ . International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education , 7 : 473 – 499 .
  • Marek-Crnjac , L . 2009 . ‘A short history of fractal-Cantorian space-time’ . Chaos , 41 : 2697 – 2705 .
  • Maruszewski , R . 2009 . ‘Fibonacci's forgotten number revisited’ . College Mathematics Journal , 40 : 248 – 251 .
  • Mota , E , Crawford , P and Sim[otilde]es , A . 2009 . ‘Einstein in Portugal: Eddington's expedition to Principe and the reactions of Portuguese astronomers (1917–25)’ . British Journal for the History of Science , 42 : 245 – 273 .
  • Palmieri , P . 2009 . ‘Radical mathematical Thomism: beings of reason and divine decrees in Torricelli's philosophy of mathematics’ . Studies in History and Philosophy of Science , 40 : 131 – 142 .
  • Parshall , K H . 2009 . ‘Marshall Stone and the internationalization of the American mathematical research community’ . Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , 46 : 459 – 484 .
  • Pinigin , G . 2009 . ‘The Knorre astronomers' dynasty’ . Astronomische Nachrichten , 330 : 578 – 581 . [‘We attempt to throw light upon the poorly known astronomical dynasty of Knorre and describe its contribution to astronomy’, roughly 1802–1919.]
  • Portuondo , M M . 2009 . ‘Lunar eclipses, longitude and the New World’ . Journal for the History of Astronomy , 40 : 249 – 276 .
  • Pumfrey , S . 2009 . ‘Harriot's maps of the moon: new interpretations’ . Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London , 63 : 163 – 168 .
  • Rindler , W . 2009 . ‘Godel, Einstein, Mach, Gamow, and Lanczos: Godel's remarkable excursion into cosmology’ . American Journal of Physics , 77 : 498 – 510 .
  • Rocha , J F M . 2009 . ‘The concept of field in the classroom: a historical-conceptual approach’ . Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Fisica , 31 art. no. 1604
  • Samso , J . 2009 . ‘Ibn Abi l-Rijal's Urjuza and Ibn Qunfudh's commentary: astrology and history in the Maghrib during the 11th and 14th centuries’ . Al-Qatara , 30 : 7 – 39 .
  • Schubring , G . 2008 . “ ‘Mathematics in Naples: an extraordinary case of institutional development’ ” . In La Historia de la Ciencia y de la Técnica: Un Arma Cargada de Futuro. Ensayos en Homenaje a Mariano Hormigón , Edited by: Velamazan , M A , Vea , F , Cobos , J and Martin , C . 143 – 153 . Cádiz : Diputación Provincial de Cádiz, FPZ, Servicio de Publicaciones .
  • Seneta , E and Gani , J M . 2009 . ‘Christopher Charles Heyde 1939–2008’ . Historical Records of Australian Science , 20 : 67 – 90 . [Heyde ‘made an outstanding contribution to probability theory and its applications. His theoretical work focused mainly on the laws of large numbers, branching processes, martingale theory, estimation theory and, most recently, financial mathematics. He also had a lasting interest in the history of probability and statistics.’]
  • Seneta , E . 2009 . ‘Karl Pearson in Russian contexts’ . International Statistical Review , 77 : 118 – 146 .
  • Shatz , S S . 2009 . ‘The mathematical circle around Tate in the late fifties and early sixties’ . Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly , 5 : 1429 – 1433 .
  • Smith , T . 2009 . ‘Ranald Macdonald and statistical inference’ . The British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology , 62 : 195 – 199 .
  • Stammers , R B . 2008 . ‘Charles Babbage and the “Facility of Using”’ . Contemporary Ergonomics , : 252 – 257 .
  • Tanács , J N . 2009 . ‘Grasping the conceptual difference between János Bolyai and Lobachevskii's notions of non-Euclidean parallelism’ . Archive for History of Exact Sciences , 63 : 537 – 552 .
  • Taniyama , Y , Goresky , M and Kawamuro , K . 2009 . ‘On A. Weil’ . Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , 46 : 667 – 668 .
  • Tong , C . 2009 . ‘Lord Kelvin's gyrostat and its analogs in physics, including the Lorenz model’ . American Journal of Physics , 77 : 526 – 537 .
  • Wang , Y J . 2009 . ‘Hands-on mathematics: two cases from ancient Chinese mathematics’ . Science and Education , 18 : 631 – 640 .
  • Weniger , E J . 2009 . ‘The strange history of B Functions or how theoretical chemists and mathematicians do (not) interact’ . International Journal of Quantum Chemistry , 109 : 1706 – 1716 .
  • Woeginger , G J . 2009 . ‘When Cauchy and Holder met Minkowski: a tour through well-known inequalities’ . Mathematics Magazine , 82 : 202 – 208 .

Books

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  • Bradley , R E and Sandifer , C E . 2009 . Cauchy's Cours d'analyse: an annotated translation , Springer .
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  • Gillette , G . 2009 . The philosophical mathematics of Isaac Barrow 1630–1677: conserving the qncient Greek geometry of the Euclidean school , Edwin Mellen Press .
  • Goulding , R . 2009 . Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance rediscovery of mathematical history , Springer .
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  • Maor , E . 2009 . e: the story of a number , Princeton University Press .
  • Marquis , J-P . 2009 . From a geometrical point of view: a study of the history and philosophy of category theory , Springer .
  • Netz , R . 2009 . Ludic proof: Greek mathematics and the Alexandrian aesthetic , Cambridge University Press .
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  • Petsche , H-J . 2009 . Hermann Graßmann: biography , Birkhauser .
  • Radford , L , Schubring , G and Seeger , F . 2008 . Semiotics in mathematics education: epistemology, history, classroom and culture , Sense .
  • Rooney , A . 2009 . The story of mathematics , Arcturus Publishing .
  • Smith , F H . 2009 . Lecture on the history of mathematics , BiblioBazaar .
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