British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Volume 33, Issue 3 (2018)

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Editorial
Benjamin Wardhaugh
Page: 147
Published online: 05 Oct 2018
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Un Altro Presente: on the historical interpretation of mathematical texts
To IGG, in memoriam
Niccolò Guicciardini
Pages: 148-165
Published online: 17 Sep 2018
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Game, set, and graph
Norman Biggs
Pages: 166-178
Published online: 09 Aug 2018
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What became of Paul Dirac’s classmate?
Tony Crilly
Pages: 179-188
Published online: 17 Sep 2018
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Book Review
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World, by Alexander Jones
Oxford University Press, 2017, 288 pp, £22.99, ISBN 978-0-199-73934-9
Christián C. Carman
Pages: 189-190
Published online: 13 Apr 2018
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini: A Modern Astronomer in the 17th Century, by Gabriella Bernardi
Springer, 2017, xi + 186 pp, eBook £18.99, hardcover £23.99, ISBN 978-3-319-63467-8
Edmund Robertson
Pages: 191-192
Published online: 28 Mar 2018
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The Calculus Story: A Mathematical Adventure, by David Acheson
Oxford University Press, 2017, 181pp, £11.99, ISBN 978-0-198-80454-3
Felix Feather
Pages: 192-194
Published online: 11 Jun 2018
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“What the Tortoise Said to Achilles”: Lewis Carroll's Paradox of Inference, special issue of: The Carrollian: The Lewis Carroll Journal, edited by Amirouche Moktefi and Francine F Abeles
no. 28 (double issue), November 2016, 136 pp, £10
Snezana Lawrence
Pages: 194-195
Published online: 08 Jun 2018
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The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age, by Jan Von Plato
Princeton University Press, 2017, 400pp, £27.95, ISBN 978-0-691-17417-4
John W Dawson Jr
Pages: 196-197
Published online: 31 May 2018
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Ten great ideas about chance, by Persi Diaconis and Brian Skyrms
Princeton University Press, 2018, 255 pp, £22.95, ISBN 978-0-691-17416-7
Tony Crilly
Pages: 197-199
Published online: 18 Jun 2018
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American mathematics 1890–1913: catching up to Europe, by Steve Batterson
MAA Press, 2018, 230 pp, $50.00, ISBN 978-0-883-85590-4
Ellen Abrams
Pages: 200-201
Published online: 02 Jul 2018
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Wonders beyond numbers: A brief history of all things mathematical, by Johnny Ball
Bloomsbury, 2018, 480 pp, £16.99, ISBN 978-1-472-93999-9
Liam McDonald
Pages: 201-203
Published online: 05 Sep 2018
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