British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Volume 33, Issue 1 (2018)

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Editorials

Editorial
Editorial
Benjamin Wardhaugh
Page: 1
Published online: 12 Dec 2017
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A most gossiped about genius: Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Anne van Weerden & Steven Wepster
Pages: 2-20
Published online: 12 Dec 2017
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Did Lewis Carroll own a copy of George Boole's Laws of thought? An argument from the sale catalogues
Amirouche Moktefi
Pages: 21-28
Published online: 16 Oct 2017
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Woman into Mathematician: The opening of university mathematical education to women in the British Isles: a prosopographical note
A E L Davis
Pages: 29-32
Published online: 10 Apr 2017
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Mark Vygodsky: several episodes from the life of a scholar
Alexander Karp
Pages: 33-49
Published online: 23 Mar 2017
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Mathematics, manifest: a review of Mathematics: the Winton Gallery at the Science Museum
Katie McCallum
Pages: 50-53
Published online: 12 Oct 2017
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Reviews

Book Review
Leonhard Euler: mathematical genius in the Enlightenment, by Ronald S Calinger
Princeton University Press, 2016, xvii+669pp, £40.95, ISBN 978-0-691-11927-4
Robin Wilson
Pages: 54-55
Published online: 10 Apr 2017
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Literature after Euclid: the geometric imagination in the long Scottish Enlightenment, by Matthew Wickman
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, 304pp, £60.00, ISBN 978-0-812-24795-4
Jocelyn Rodal
Pages: 55-57
Published online: 10 Apr 2017
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Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres, by Clifford Cunningham
Springer, 2016, 333pp, £117, ISBN 978-3-319-21777-2
Paolo Bussotti
Pages: 57-59
Published online: 15 Feb 2017
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The case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin, by Sergei S Demidov and Boris V Lëvshin, translated from the Russian by Roger Cooke
American Mathematical Society, 2016, 386 pp, £95.95, ISBN 978-1-470-42608-8
Christopher D Hollings
Pages: 59-61
Published online: 10 Nov 2016
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BSHM meetings

Report
Anglo-Danish conference on History of Mathematics in Education: Bath Spa, August 2016
Sue Pope & Leo Rogers
Pages: 62-67
Published online: 27 Nov 2017
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The Thomsons of Belfast
The Old Museum Building, 7 College Square North, Belfast, 18 February 2017
Isobel Falconer
Pages: 67-68
Published online: 25 May 2017
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BSHM meeting: The Practice of Mathematics from the Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century
University of York, 6–7 April 2017
Pages: 68-69
Published online: 18 Oct 2017
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BSHM/Lewis Carroll Society: The Mathematical World of C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
Andrew Wiles Building, University of Oxford, 29 May 2017
Robin Wilson
Pages: 69-70
Published online: 16 Oct 2017
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The History of Mathematical Logic: in honour of Ivor Grattan–Guinness
Birkbeck, London, 27 May 2017
Jane Wess
Pages: 70-72
Published online: 01 Nov 2017
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