British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Volume 30, Issue 3 (2015)

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Editorials

Editorial
Editorial
Tony Mann
Page: 177
Published online: 27 Oct 2015
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Obituary

Obituary
Subverting expectations: memories of editing with Jackie
Eleanor Robson
Pages: 178-182
Published online: 27 Oct 2015
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Original Articles

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Propositions VIII.4–5 of Euclid's Elements and the compounding of ratios on the monochord
Fabio Bellissima
Pages: 183-199
Published online: 28 Aug 2015
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Decoding William Scrots' anamorphic portrait of Edward VI
James L Hunt & John Sharp
Pages: 200-216
Published online: 05 Jun 2015
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‘Thick-rinded fruit of the tree of knowledge’: mathematics education in George Eliot's novels
Derek Ball
Pages: 217-226
Published online: 20 Jul 2015
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Women mathematicians in France in the mid-twentieth century
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach
Pages: 227-242
Published online: 04 Mar 2015
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Pre-service teachers' point of views about learning history of mathematics: a case study in Turkey
Fatma Kayan Fadlelmula
Pages: 243-252
Published online: 08 Jun 2015
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BSHM meetings

BSHM-LMS De Morgan Day
De Morgan House, Russell Square, London, 9 May 2015
Tony Crilly
Pages: 253-255
Published online: 27 Oct 2015
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Sixth BSHM–CSHPM Joint Meeting
Washington DC, USA, 5–8 August 2015
Robin Wilson
Pages: 255-259
Published online: 27 Oct 2015
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Other meetings

The Third Irish History of Mathematics Conference
University of Ulster at Jordanstown, 15 May 2015
Andrew Whitaker
Page: 260
Published online: 27 Oct 2015
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Reviews

Book Review
The tangled origins of the Leibnizian calculus: a case study of a mathematical revolution, by Richard C Brown
World Scientific Publishing, 2012, 332 pp, £73.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-981-4390-79-8.
Douglas Jesseph
Pages: 261-263
Published online: 27 Oct 2015
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It began with Babbage: the genesis of computer science, by Subrata Dasgupta
Oxford University Press, 2014, 334 pp, £22.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-930941-2.
Jonathan P Bowen
Pages: 263-265
Published online: 27 Oct 2015
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Editorial Board

Editorial Board
Page: ebi
Published online: 27 Oct 2015
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