Introductory remarks

Volker R. Remmert, Martina R. Schneider

1-8

The history of mathematics in the progress of mankind

modifying the narrative around 1800

Maarten Bullynck

9-23

Practicing history of mathematics in islamicate societies in 19th-century Germany and France

Sonja Brentjes

25-52

Mesopotamian mathematics, seen "from the inside" (by assyriologists) and "from the outside" (by historians of mathematics)

Jens Høyrup

53-78

Appropriating role models for the mathematical profession

biographies in the American mathematical monthly around 1900

Per Kragh-Sørensen

79-108

Greek mathematics in English

the work of sir Thomas L. Heath (1861–1940)

Benjamin Wardhaugh

109-122

Otto Neugebauer's vision for rewriting the history of ancient mathematics

David E. Rowe

123-141

The "mathematization of nature"

the making of a concept, and how it has fared in later years

H. F. Cohen

143-160

Histories of modern mathematics in English in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s

Jeremy Gray

161-183

Polycephalic Euclid?

collective practices in Bourbaki's history of mathematics

Anne-Sandrine Paumier, David Aubin

185-218

Pulling Harriot out of Newton's shadow

how the Norwegian outsider Johannes Lohne came to contribute to mainstream history of mathematics

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

219-243

Contextualizing Unguru's 1975 attack on the historiography of ancient Greek mathematics

Martina R. Schneider

245-267