Introduction
Ancient Mathematics
Foreword
Sherlock Holmes in Babylon, R. Creighton Buck
Words and Pictures: New Light on Plimpton 322, Eleanor
Robson
Mathematics, 600 B.C.-600 A.D., Max Dehn
Diophantus of Alexandria, J. D. Swift
Hypatia of Alexandria, A. W. Richeson
Hypatia and Her Mathematics, Michael A. B. Deal6n
The Evolution of Mathematics in Ancient China, Frank Swetz
Liu Hui and the First Golden Age of Chinese Mathematics, Philip D.
Straffin,
Number Systems of the North American Indians, W. C. Eells
The Number System of the Mayas, A. W. Richeson
Before The Conquest, Marcia Ascher
Afterword
edieval and Renaissance Mathematics
Foreword
The Discovery of the Series Formula for 7r by Leibniz, Gregory and
Nilakantha, Ranjan Roy
Ideas of Calculus in Islam and India, Victor J. Katz
Was Calculus Invented in India?, David Bressoud
An Early Iterative Method for the Determination of sin 1~, Farhad
Riahi
Leonardo of Pisa and his Liber Quadratorum, R. B. McClenon
The Algorists vs. the Abacists: An Ancient Controversy on the Use
of Calculators,
Barbara E. Reynolds
Sidelights on the Cardan-Tartaglia Controversy, Martin A.
Nordgaard
Reading Bombelli''s x-purgated Algebra, Abraham Arcavi and Maxim
Bruckheimer
l''he First Work on Mathematics Printed in the New World, David
Eugene Smith
erword
Seventeenth Centuryreword
Application of Geography to Mathematics: History of the Integral of
the Secant,
V. Frederick Rickey and Philip M.. Tuchinsky
Historical Notes on the Cycloid, E. A. Whitman
artes and Problem-Solving, Judith Grabiner