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“Dýnamis, the Babylonians, and Theaetetus 147c7 – 148d7”. Historia Mathematica 17 (1990), 201–222. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com. Manuscript. |
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“A New Art in Ancient Clothes. Itineraries Chosen between Scholasticism and Baroque in Order to Make Algebra Appear Legitimate, and Their Impact on the Substance of the Discipline”. Physis, n.s. 35 (1998), 11–50. Preprint. |
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“On a Collection of Geometrical Riddles and Their Role in the Shaping of Four to Six «Algebras»”. Science in Context 14 (2001), 85–131. Preprint. |
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“The Founding of Italian Vernacular Algebra”, pp. 129–156 in Commerce et mathématiques du moyen âge à la renaissance, autour de la Méditerranée. Actes du Colloque International du Centre International d'Histoire des Sciences Occitanes (Beaumont de Lomagne, 13–16 mai 1999). Toulouse: Éditions du C.I.H.S.O., 2001. |
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“Jacopo da Firenze and the Beginning of Italian Vernacular Algebra”. Historia Mathematica 33 (2006), 4–42, doi: 10.1016/j.hm.2005.03.001. Preprint. |
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“The Fifteenth-Seventeenth Century Transformation of
Abbacus Algebra: Perhaps – Though Not Thought of by Edgar Zilsel and
Joseph Needham – the Best Illustration of the ‘Zilsel-Needham thesis’”. Summer School on the History of Algebra, Institute for the History of the Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, 1–2 September 2011. Preprint, 17 September 2011. |
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“Pedro Nuñez: Innovateur bloqué, et dernier témoin d'une tradition millénaire”. Gazeta de Matemática no 143 (Julho 2002), 52–59. Manuscript. |
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[Review of Kirsti Andersen (ed.), Kilder og kommentarer til ligningernes historie. Vejle: Forlaget Trip, 1986]. Zentralblatt für Mathematik 0631.01001. |
Review of Brendan Larvor, “Proof in C17 algebra”, pp. 119–133 in Bart Van Kerkhove et al. (eds), Perspectives on Mathematical Practices.Berlin: Springer, 2007. Zentralblatt für mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete Zbl 1141.01004 |
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“What Is `Geometric Algebra', and What Has It Been in Historiography?”. AIMS Mathematics 2 (2017), 128-160.
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