Contents of Volume 10 - 2013 (Loci - Volume 4, continued)

Editors:  Janet Beery, Kathleen Clark

Features

Who's That Mathematician? Images from the Paul R. Halmos Photograph Collection, by Janet Beery and Carol Mead

An expanding and interactive feature with new photos every week through early March of 2013 and the opportunity for you to provide additional information about them

Mathematical Treasures II, by Frank J. Swetz

• Mesopotamian Accounting Tokens: Mesopotamian accounting evolved from simple clay token counters to a number-recording system that included depictions of these tokens on clay tablets.
• The Best Known Old Babylonian Tablet?: YBC 7289, though written by a scribal student, contains an excellent estimate of the square root of 2 and shows how to use it to obtain the length of the hypotenuse of any isosceles right triangle.
• Problems from the Zibaldone da Canal: Colorful images from a 14th century 'notebook' of arithmetic and other practical information
• Ratdolt's Euclid's Elements: Images of the first printed edition of Euclid's Elements (1482)
• Cuthbert Tunstall's De arte supputandi: Images from a 1529 edition of the first arithmetic book published in England
• Oronce Fine's Protomathesis: Fine presented arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, instrument-making, and astronomy in this 1532 compendium.
• Copernicus' De revolutionibus: Images from the book in which Copernicus presented his heliocentric theory, arguing that the planets, including the Earth, rotated about the Sun
• Stratioticos, by Leonard and Thomas Digges: Images from the 1579 manual (in English) on the mathematics of war
• Robert Tanner's A Mirror for Mathematiques: Images from a 16th century text about the astrolabe and its uses
• George Waymouth's Jewell of Artes (1604): Images from a beautifully illustrated book of practical mathematics designed to impress King James I of England
• Specula mathematica of Roger Bacon: A 1614 collection of Roger Bacon's 13th century writings on applications of mathematics
• Arithmetica Logarithmica of Henry Briggs: Images from the 1624 work in which Briggs presented his base 10 logarithms, along with many examples of their use in geometry
• Edward Cocker's Arithmetick: Image of the title page of the second volume (1685) of the most popular arithmetic book in England from its publication in 1673 through the 18th century
• Mary Serjant's Copybook (1688): Images from the handwritten copybook of a 15-year-old girl learning penmanship and arithmetic
• Matthew Wood's Copybook (1699): Images from a handwritten copybook presenting counting and arithmetic needed by merchants