British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Volume 31, Issue 1 (2016)

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Commutativity and collinearity: a historical case study of the interconnection of mathematical ideas. Part I
Adrian Rice & Ezra Brown
Pages: 1-14
Published online: 16 Jun 2015
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Theodorus’ proofs of incommensurabilities with Gnomons
S. Negrepontis & G. Tassopoulos
Pages: 15-30
Published online: 28 Aug 2015
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Robert Patterson: American ‘revolutionary’ mathematician
Richard DeCesare
Pages: 31-46
Published online: 28 Apr 2015
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Robert Leslie Ellis, William Whewell and Kant: the role of Rev H F C Logan
Lukas M Verburgt
Pages: 47-51
Published online: 27 Apr 2015
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Two beginnings of geometry and folding: Hermann Wiener and Sundara Row
Michael Friedman
Pages: 52-68
Published online: 05 Jun 2015
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A tale of mathematical myth-making: E T Bell and the ‘arithmetization of algebra’
Christopher Hollings
Pages: 69-80
Published online: 18 Jun 2015
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Reviews

Book Review
Taming the unknown: a history of algebra from antiquity to the early twentieth century, by Victor J Katz and Karen Hunger Parshall
Princeton University Press, 2014, 504 pp, £34.95, ISBN 978-0-691-14905-9.
Adrian Rice
Pages: 81-83
Published online: 09 Mar 2016
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A note on some recent mathematical histories/A curious history of mathematics, by Joel Levy/The universe in zero words, by Dana Mackenzie/17 equations that changed the world, by Ian Stewart/Maths in 100 key breakthroughs, by Richard Elwes
Andre Deutsch, 2013, 192 pp, £14.94, ISBN 978-0-233-00385-6./Princeton University Press, 2012, 192 pp, £19.95, ISBN 978-0-691-15282-0./Profile, 2012, 352 pp, £6.29 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-846-68532-3./Quercus, 2013, 416 pp, £17.44, ISBN 978-1-623-65054-4.
Stephanie Crampin
Pages: 83-86
Published online: 09 Mar 2016
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Letter

Letter
Letter to the Editor
Thomas Drucker
Page: 87
Published online: 09 Mar 2016
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