British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Volume 34, Issue 2 (2019)

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British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Volume 34, Issue 2 (2019)

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Research Articles

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Dicuil (9th century) on triangular and square numbers
Helen Elizabeth Ross & Betty Irene Knott
Pages: 79-94
Published online: 03 Apr 2019
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Who introduced Western mathematicians to Latin squares?
John T. E. Richardson
Pages: 95-103
Published online: 17 Mar 2019
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Bernoullian influences on Leonhard Euler’s early fluid mechanics
Erik R. Tou
Pages: 104-117
Published online: 06 Feb 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Jacqueline Feke Ptolemy’s philosophy: mathematics as a way of life
Princeton University Press, 2018, 256 pp., £30.00, ISBN 978-0-691-17958-2
Glen Van Brummelen
Pages: 118-119
Published online: 27 Feb 2019
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Robin Wilson Euler’s pioneering equation: the most beautiful theorem in mathematics
Oxford University Press, 2018, 176 pp., £14.99, ISBN 978-0-198-79492-9
Miranda Wood
Pages: 120-123
Published online: 04 Mar 2019
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Dan Bouk, How our days became numbered: risk and the rise of the statistical individual
University of Chicago Press, 2015, xxx+294 pp, $30, ISBN 978-0-226-56486-9 (pb).
Norman Biggs
Pages: 123-124
Published online: 23 Jan 2019
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Society News

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BSHM Meeting reports
Pages: 125-132
Published online: 24 Mar 2019
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29th Novembertagung on the history of mathematics
Brigitte Stenhouse
Page: 133
Published online: 19 Mar 2019
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Paul Erdős's mathematics as a social activity
Kamilla Rekvenyi
Pages: 134-142
Published online: 24 Mar 2019
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