Mathematics and the Historian's Craft

Introduction: The Birth and Growth of a Community.- History or Heritage? An Important Distinction in Mathematics and for Mathematics Education.- Ptolemy’s Mathematical Models and their Meaning.- Mathematics, Instruments and Navigation, 1600–1800.- Was Newton’s Calculus a Dead End? The Continental Influence of Maclaurin’s Treatise of Fluxions.- The Mathematics and Science of Leonhard Euler (1707–1783).- Mathematics in Canada before 1945: A Preliminary Survey.- The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community.- 19th Century Logic Between Philosophy and Mathematics.- The Battle for Cantorian Set Theory.- Hilbert and his Twenty-Four Problems.- Turing and the Origins of AI.- Mathematics and Gender: Some Cross-Cultural Observations.