IN a recent number of NATURE (June 30) there appeared a review of a book by G. Mannoury on the philosophy of mathematics, and the reviewer emphasised a statement of the author to the effect that the ...

Many of us may be unaware of this, but mathematics is a dynamic discipline that can change over time, said Jennifer Taback in her inaugural lecture as the Isaac Henry Wing Professor of Mathematics, ...

THE book before us is Part 1 of a history which is intended to consist of three parts. This first part deals only with the history of the numeral notation and of arithmetic; the second will be devoted ...