Robson, E: Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics

INTRODUCTION ; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: GLOBAL ; 1.1 What was mathematics in the ancient world? Greek and Chinese perspectives ; 1.2 Mathematics and authority: a case study in New and Old World accounting ; 1.3 Heavenly learning, statecraft, and scholarship: the Jesuits and their mathematics in China ; 1.4 The internationalization of mathematics in a world of nations, 1800-1960 ; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: REGIONAL ; 2.1 The two cultures of mathematics in ancient Greece ; 2.2 Tracing mathematical networks in seventeenth-century England ; 2.3 Mathematics and mathematics education in traditional Vietnam ; 2.4 A Balkan trilogy: mathematics in the Balkans before the First World War ; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: LOCAL ; 3.1 Mathematics education in an Old Babylonian scribal school ; 3.2 The archaeology of mathematics in an ancient Greek city ; 3.3 Engineering the Neapolitan state ; 3.4 Observatory mathematics in the nineteenth century ; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: LIVES ; 4.1 Patronage of the mathematical sciences in Islamic societies ; 4.2 John Aubrey and the 'Lives of our English mathematical writers' ; 4.3 Introducing mathematics, building an empire: Russia under Peter I ; 4.4 Human computers in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain ; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: PRACTICES ; 5.1 Mixing, building, and feeding: mathematics and technology in ancient Egypt ; 5.2 Siyaq: numerical notation in the Persianate world ; 5.3 Learning arithmetic: textbooks and their users in England 1500-1900 ; 5.4 Algorithms and automation: mathematics and weaving ; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: PRESENTATION ; 6.1 The cognitive and cultural foundations of numbers ; 6.2 Sanskrit mathematical verse ; 6.3 Antiquity, nobility, and utility: picturing the Early Modern mathematical sciences ; 6.4 Writing the ultimate mathematical textbook: Nicolas Bourbaki's Elements de mathematique ; INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS: INTELLECTUAL ; 7.1 People and numbers in early imperial China ; 7.2 Mathematics in fourteenth-century

Eleanor Robson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She is the author of Mesopotamian mathematics, 2100-1600 BC (1999), Mathematics in ancient Iraq: a social history (2008), and many articles on the socio-intellectual history of the cuneiform world. She is co-director of an AHRC-funded project on the geography of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia. Jacqueline Stedall is Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics at The Queen's College, Oxford. Her research focuses on European mathematics from the 16th century to the 18th with a special interest in the development of algebra. Recent publications include Mathematics Emerging: a sourcebook, 1540-1900 (2008) and The 'Magisteria magna' of Thomas Harriot (2008, with Janet Beery). She is also editor of the BSHSM Bulletin, journal of the British Society of the History of Mathematics.

"This impressive and ambitious volume is aimed at presenting a panorama of the history of Mathematics on a 5000 years span, across all significant mathematical cultures. This book will constitute an interesting lecture for a wide readership and it is highly recommended."--Libertas Mathematica"A delightful collection of essays, each of which will most certainly raise more questions in the reader's mind than it answers."--CHOICE