The Oxford handbook of the history of mathematics

Introduction GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES 1. Global What was mathematics in the ancient world? Greek and Chinese perspectives / G E R Lloyd Mathematics and authority: a case study in and Old New World accounting / Gary Urton Heavenly learning, statecraft, and scholarship: the Jesuits and their mathematics in China / Catherine Jami The internationalization of mathematics in a world of nations, 1800-1960 / Karen Hunger Parshall 2. Regional The two cultures of mathematics in ancient Greece / Markus Asper Tracing mathematical networks in seventeenth-century England / Jacqueline Stedall Mathematics and mathematics education in traditional Vietnam / Alexei Volkov A Balkan trilogy: mathematics in the Balkans before the First World War / Snezana Lawrence 3. Local Mathematics education in an Old Babylonian scribal school / Eleanor Robson The archaeology of mathematics in an ancient Greek city / David Gilman Romano Engineering the Neapolitan state / Massimo Mazzotti Observatory mathematics in the nineteenth century / David Aubin

PEOPLE AND PRACTICES 4. Lives Patronage of the mathematical sciences in Islamic societies / Sonja Brentjes John Aubrey and the 'Lives of our English mathematical writers' / Kate Bennett Introducing mathematics, building an empire: Russia under Peter I / Irina Gouzʹevitch and Dmitri Gouzʹevitch Human computers in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain / Mary Croarken 5. Practices Mixing, building, and feeding: mathematics and technology in ancient Egypt / Corinna Rossi Siyaq: numerical notation in the Persianate world / Brian Spooner and William Hanaway Learning arithmetic: textbooks and their users in England 1500-1900 / John Denniss Algorithms and automation: the production of mathematics and textiles / Carrie Brezine 6. Presentation The cognitive and cultural foundations of numbers / Stephen Chrisomalis Sanskrit mathematical verse / Kim Plofker Antiquity, nobility, and utility: picturing the Early Modern mathematical sciences / Volker R. Remmert Writing the ultimate mathematical textbook: Nicolas Bourbaki's Elements de mathematique / Leo Corry

INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS

7. Intellectual

People and numbers in early imperial China / Christopher Cullen

Mathematics in fourteenth-century theology / Mark Thakkar

Mathematics, music, and experiment in late seventeenth-century England / Benjamin Wardhaugh

Modernism in mathematics / Jeremy Gray

8. Mathematical

The transmission of the Elements to the Latin West: three case studies / Sabine Rommevaux

'Gigantic implements of war': images of Newton as a mathematician / Niccolò Guicciardini

From cascades to calculus: Rolle's theorem / June Barrow-Green

Abstraction and application: new contexts, new interpretations in twentieth-century mathematics / Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen

9. Historical

Traditions and myths in the historiography of Egyptian mathematics / Annette Imhausen

Reading ancient Greek mathematics / Ken Saito

Number, shape, and the nature of space: thinking through Islamic art / Carol Bier

The historiography and history of mathematics in the Third Reich / Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze.