British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Volume 34, Issue 3 (2019)

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British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Volume 34, Issue 3 (2019)

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Juan Caramuel (1606–1682) and the Spanish version of the Passedix game
José Antonio Camúñez-Ruiz & María Dolores Pérez-Hidalgo
Pages: 143-154
Published online: 19 Jun 2019
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The recreational mathematics activities of ordinary nineteenth century Americans: A case study of two mathematics puzzle columns and their contributors
Sian Zelbo
Pages: 155-178
Published online: 28 Jul 2019
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‘A man who has infinite capacity for making things go’: Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873–1956)
Alison Maidment & Mark McCartney
Pages: 179-193
Published online: 25 May 2019
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Visual culture and mathematics in the early modern period
Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes (ed), London: Taylor & Francis, 2017, 214 pp., £120 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-1386-7938-2
Albrecht Heefer
Pages: 194-195
Published online: 12 Aug 2019
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A common family weakness for statistics: essays on Francis Galton, George Darwin and the normal curve of evolutionary biology
Chris Pritchard, Mathematical Association, 2018, 127 pp, £9.00, ISBN 978-1-911616-03-0
Dorothy Leddy
Pages: 195-197
Published online: 20 May 2019
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L’Élite sous la mitraille: les normaliens, les mathématiques et la Grande Guerre, 1900–1925
David Aubin, Editions Rue d’Ulm, 2018, 374 pp, 25€, ISBN 978-2-7288-0603-4
Matthew Findlay
Pages: 197-199
Published online: 20 May 2019
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BSHM Meeting News
Pages: 200-210
Published online: 13 Aug 2019
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