British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Volume 33, Issue 2 (2018)

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The main sources for the Arte Mayor in sixteenth century Spain
Fàtima Romero-Vallhonesta & M. Rosa Massa-Esteve
Pages: 73-95
Published online: 18 Jan 2018
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A letter of Robert Leslie Ellis to William Walton on probability
Lukas M Verburgt
Pages: 96-108
Published online: 26 Feb 2018
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Edward L. Kaplan and the Kaplan-Meier Survival Curve
Lukas J A Stalpers & Edward L Kaplan
Pages: 109-135
Published online: 18 May 2018
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Reviews

Book Review
Finding Fibonacci: the quest to rediscover the forgotten mathematical genius who changed the world, by Keith Devlin
Princeton, 2017, 241pp, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-17486-0
Richard Simpson
Pages: 136-137
Published online: 20 Nov 2017
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The early period of the calculus of variations, by Paolo Freguglia and Mariano Giaquinta
Birkhäuser, 2016, 293pp, £59.99, ISBN 978-3-319-38945-5
Ronald Calinger
Pages: 138-139
Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Images of Italian Mathematics in France: The Latin sisters, from Risorgimento to fascism, by Frédéric Brechenmacher et al. (eds)
Birkhäuser, 2016, 324pp, £108, ISBN 978-3-319-40082-2
Christopher Hollings
Pages: 139-141
Published online: 22 Nov 2017
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Mathematical knowledge and the interplay of practices, by José Ferreirós
Princeton University Press, 2016, 360pp, £37.95, ISBN 978-0-691-16751-0
Roy Wagner
Pages: 141-143
Published online: 30 Oct 2017
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BSHM meetings

Report
Research in Progress
Pages: 144-146
Published online: 18 May 2018
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