HISTORIA MATHEMATICA

A publication of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics of the Division of the History of Science
of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science.
Editor: Nathan Sidoli, Waseda University, School of International Liberal Studies, 1-6-1 Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku,
Tokyo, 169-8050, Japan
Editor: Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, University of Agder, Faculty of Technology and Sciences, Gimlemoen, Kris-
tiansand, 4604, Norway
Book Review Editors:
Patti W. Hunter, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA 93108, USA (for books in English)
Henrik Kragh Sørensen, Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 3, DK-1350
København K, Denmark (for books in languages other than English)
Abstracts Editors:
Duncan Melville, Department of Mathematics, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617, USA
Laura Martini, Via D. di Boninsegna 2, 53100 Siena, Italy (assistant editor)
Kim Plofker, Department of Mathematics, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308, USA (assistant editor)
Associate Editors:
Tom Archibald, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S6
June Barrow-Green, School of Mathematics, Faculty of STEM, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United
Kingdom
Len Berggren, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S6
Umberto Bottazzini, Università di Milano, Dipartimento di matematica ‘F. Enriques’, Via Saldini 50, 20144 Milano, Italy
Craig Fraser, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,
M5S 1K7, Canada
Christian Gilain, Institut de Mathématiques, Université Paris 6, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Enrico Giusti, Istituto Matematico, Università degli Studi, Viale Morgagni 67/A, I-50134 Florence, Italy
Jeremy Gray, School of Mathematics, Faculty of STEM, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United
Kingdom
Niccolò Guicciardini, Dipartimento di Lettere, Filosofia, Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, via Pignolo
123, 24121 Bergamo, Italy
Jan P. Hogendijk, Mathematisch Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Budapestlaan 6, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
Wann-Sheng Horng, Department of Mathematics, College of Science, National Taiwan Normal University, 88 Sec. 4,
Tingchow Road, 117 Taipei, Taiwan
Jens Høyrup, Section for Philosophy and Science Studies, Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Den-
mark
Annette Imhausen, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Senckenberganlage 31, Hauspostfach 5, 60054 Frankfurt am Main,
Germany
Niels Jahnke, Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany
Eberhard Knobloch, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Jaegerstrasse 22/23, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Jesper Lützen, Mathematics Institute, Copenhagen University, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Antoni Malet, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Humanities, Ramon Trias Farga 25-27, Barcelona, 8005, Spain
Karen Parshall, Department of Mathematics and History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-3199
Volker Peckhaus, Universität Paderborn, Fakultät fur Kulturwissenschaften-Philosophie, Warburger Str. 100, D-33098
Paderborn, Germany
Jeanne Peiffer, CNRS, Centre Alexandre Koyré, 27, rue Damesme, 75013 Paris, France
Ken Saito, Osaka Prefecture University, Department of Human Sciences, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Nakaku, Sakai, Osaka
599-8531, Japan
Martina Schneider, Institut für Mathematik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 9, 55099 Mainz, Germany
Benno van Dalen, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Alfons-Goppel-Strasse 11, 80539 Munich, Germany
Warren Van Egmond, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Sponsors:
Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences, American Mathematical Society, Association of Teachers of Math-
ematics (Great Britain), British Society for the History of Mathematics, Canadian Mathematical Society, Canadian
Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, Fibonacci Association, History
of Science Society, Indian Mathematical Society, The Institute of Mathematical Statistics, London Mathematical Society,
Mathematical Association of America, The Mathematical Association (Great Britain), National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics, La Société Mathématique de France. Historia Mathematica is the official journal of the Canadian Society
for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques.