British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Volume 35, Issue 3 (2020)

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British Journal for the History of Mathematics, Volume 35, Issue 3 (2020)

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Research Articles

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A mathematical poetry book from Nepal
Deepak Basyal
Pages: 189-206
Published online: 13 Aug 2020
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Continuity between Cauchy and Bolzano: issues of antecedents and priority
Jacques Bair, Piotr Błaszczyk, Elías Fuentes Guillén, Peter Heinig, Vladimir Kanovei & Mikhail G. Katz
Pages: 207-224
Published online: 05 Jun 2020
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‘An inalienable prerogative of a liberated spirit’: postulating American mathematics
Ellen Abrams
Pages: 225-245
Published online: 19 Aug 2020
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Book Review
Pythagoras’ legacy
Marcel Danesi, Oxford University Press, 2020, 167 pp., £25, ISBN 978-0198852247.
Tony Crilly
Pages: 246-247
Published online: 28 May 2020
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Heavenly numbers. Astronomy and authority in early imperial China
Christopher Cullen, Oxford University Press, 2017, 448pp, £74, ISBN 978-0-1987-3311-9
Joseph W. Dauben
Pages: 247-251
Published online: 19 Jun 2020
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Leonhard Euler’s Letters to a German Princess: A milestone in the history of physics textbooks and more
Ronald S. Calinger, Ekaterina (Katya) Denisova, and Elena N. Polyakhova, Morgan & Claypool, 2019, xvii + 214 pp, pb £78.95, hb £98.95, ISBN 978-1-64327-189-7
Annie McQuoid
Pages: 251-253
Published online: 16 Sep 2020
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Women who count: Honoring African American women mathematicians
Shelly M. Jones, American Mathematical Society, 2020, xiii+138pp., $15.00, ISBN 978-1-4704-4889-9
Kathleen M Clark
Pages: 253-255
Published online: 12 Jun 2020
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BSHM Meeting News
Pages: 256-262
Published online: 29 Sep 2020
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