British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Volume 30, Issue 2 (2015)

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Editorial

Editorial
Editorial
Tony Mann
Page: 93
Published online: 20 May 2015
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Obituary

Obituary
Ivor Grattan-Guinness (23 June 1941 – 12 December 2014)
Adrian Rice
Pages: 94-101
Published online: 20 May 2015
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Original Articles

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Observations about Leonardo's drawings for Luca Pacioli
Dirk Huylebrouck
Pages: 102-112
Published online: 01 Dec 2014
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A Book for the King: John Geddy's Methodi sive compendii mathematici (1586)
Alex D D Craik
Pages: 113-130
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Mathematicians and the early English life insurance industry
David R Bellhouse
Pages: 131-142
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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Vito Volterra's construction of a nonconstant function with a bounded, non-Riemann integrable derivative
Juan Carlos Ponce-Campuzano & Miguel Ángel Maldonado-Aguilar
Pages: 143-152
Published online: 01 Apr 2015
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The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning as a patron of refugee mathematicians
Rolf Nossum & Jan Kotůlek
Pages: 153-167
Published online: 07 Apr 2015
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BSHM meetings

BSHM Christmas Meeting
Robin Wilson
Pages: 168-169
Published online: 20 May 2015
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Research in Progress
Fenny Smith
Pages: 169-171
Published online: 20 May 2015
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Reviews

Book Review
Emil Artin's Iceland Journal 1925: “A World of Good”, edited by Tom Artin (ed) and Karin Tate (trans)
Free Scholar Press, 2013, 206 pp, £16.49, ISBN 978-1-482-55168-6
Joachim Schwermer
Pages: 172-173
Published online: 20 May 2015
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The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616–1703) Volume IV (1672–April 1675), edited by Philip Beeley and Christoph J Scriba
Oxford University Press, 2014, 656 pp, £195.00, ISBN 978-0-198-56948-0
William Poole
Pages: 174-175
Published online: 20 May 2015
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