... histories of the subject. Part of the purpose of this book is to redress the balance and to reclaim mathematics for the man, woman,and child in the street, to revisit the history of mathematics ... collectively known as‘mixed mathematics , suggesting that mathematics was an integral part of each of them (notquite the same as the later concept of ‘applied mathematics , where mathematics is used toanalyse ... only a little to redress the masculine bias of most depictions of the history of mathematics; it can, however, pay more than lip service to the mathematics of continentsother than Europe; and it...