British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Volume 29, Issue 3 (2014)

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Editorials

Editorial
Editorial
Tony Mann
Page: 153
Published online: 02 Oct 2014
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Original Articles

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‘And John Napier created logarithms...’
D. T. Whiteside
Pages: 154-166
Published online: 02 Oct 2014
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Napier revisited or A new look at the computation of his logarithms
Joachim Fischer & Bärbel Ruess
Pages: 167-183
Published online: 05 Sep 2014
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Remarks on the idealist and empiricist interpretation of frequentism: Robert Leslie Ellis versus John Venn
Lukas M. Verburgt
Pages: 184-195
Published online: 31 Mar 2014
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In the footsteps of Euler and MacMahon: combinatorics, the mathematics that counts
Robin Wilson
Pages: 196-209
Published online: 05 Sep 2014
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BSHM meetings

BSHM Research in Progress
The Queen’s College, Oxford, 22nd February 2014
Mairi Walker
Pages: 210-211
Published online: 02 Oct 2014
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Brass for Brain: Lord Kelvin and tide prediction
University of Nottingham, 19 March 2014
Peter Rowlett
Pages: 211-213
Published online: 02 Oct 2014
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A Joint Meeting of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation and the British Society for the History of Mathematics in celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the publication of John Napier’s Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio
Clerk Maxwell House, 4 April 2014
Richard Simpson
Pages: 213-214
Published online: 02 Oct 2014
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Other meetings

Printing mathematics in the early modern world Research symposium
All Souls College, Oxford, 16–17 December 2013
Benjamin Wardhaugh
Pages: 215-216
Published online: 02 Oct 2014
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Reviews

Book Review
The history of mathematics: a very short introduction, by Jacqueline Stedall
Oxford University Press, 2012, xvii + 123 pp, £7.99, ISBN 978-0-19-959968-4
Thomas Sonar
Pages: 217-219
Published online: 02 Oct 2014
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James Clerk Maxwell. Perspectives on his life and work, by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney and Andrew Whitaker (eds)
Oxford University Press, 2014, 384 pp, £39.99, ISBN 978-0-19-966437-5
Adrian Rice
Pages: 219-221
Published online: 02 Oct 2014
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Letter to the Editor

Letter
Addendum on Wussing and Scriba
I Grattan-Guinness
Page: 222
Published online: 02 Oct 2014
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Editorial Board

Editorial Board
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Published online: 02 Oct 2014
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