Eleanor Robson;, Jacqueline Stedall . The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics. vii + 918 pp., illus., tables, bibls., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. $150

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Eleanor Robson;, Jacqueline Stedall . The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics. vii + 918 pp., illus., tables, bibls., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. $150 [Book Review]

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