Eleanor Robson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She is the author of Mesopotamian mathematics, 2100-1600 BC (1999), Mathematics in ancient Iraq: a social history (2008), and many articles on the socio-intellectual history of the cuneiform world. She is co-director of an AHRC-funded project on the geography of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia. Jacqueline Stedall is Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics at The Queen's College, Oxford. Her research focuses on European mathematics from the 16th century to the 18th with a special interest in the development of algebra. Recent publications include Mathematics Emerging: a sourcebook, 1540-1900 (2008) and The 'Magisteria magna' of Thomas Harriot (2008, with Janet Beery). She is also editor of the BSHSM Bulletin, journal of the British Society of the History of Mathematics.

• INTRODUCTION ; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: GLOBAL ; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: REGIONAL ; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: LOCAL ; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: LIVES ; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: PRACTICES ; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: PRESENTATION ; INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS: INTELLECTUAL ; INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS: MATHEMATICAL ; INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS: HISTORICAL ; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ; INDEX

Eleanor Robson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She is the author of Mesopotamian mathematics, 2100-1600 BC (1999), Mathematics in ancient Iraq: a social history (2008), and many articles on the socio-intellectual history of the cuneiform world. She is co-director of an AHRC-funded project on the geography of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia. Jacqueline Stedall is Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics at The Queen's College, Oxford. Her research focuses on European mathematics from the 16th century to the 18th with a special interest in the development of algebra. Recent publications include Mathematics Emerging: a sourcebook, 1540-1900 (2008) and The 'Magisteria magna' of Thomas Harriot (2008, with Janet Beery). She is also editor of the BSHSM Bulletin, journal of the British Society of the History of Mathematics.

• INTRODUCTION ; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: GLOBAL ; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: REGIONAL ; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: LOCAL ; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: LIVES ; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: PRACTICES ; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: PRESENTATION ; INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS: INTELLECTUAL ; INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS: MATHEMATICAL ; INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS: HISTORICAL ; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ; INDEX

Eleanor Robson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She is the author of Mesopotamian mathematics, 2100-1600 BC (1999), Mathematics in ancient Iraq: a social history (2008), and many articles on the socio-intellectual history of the cuneiform world. She is co-director of an AHRC-funded project on the geography of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia. Jacqueline Stedall is Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics at The Queen's College, Oxford. Her research focuses on European mathematics from the 16th century to the 18th with a special interest in the development of algebra. Recent publications include Mathematics Emerging: a sourcebook, 1540-1900 (2008) and The 'Magisteria magna' of Thomas Harriot (2008, with Janet Beery). She is also editor of the BSHSM Bulletin, journal of the British Society of the History of Mathematics.

• INTRODUCTION ; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: GLOBAL ; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: REGIONAL ; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: LOCAL ; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: LIVES ; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: PRACTICES ; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: PRESENTATION ; INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS: INTELLECTUAL ; INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS: MATHEMATICAL ; INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS: HISTORICAL ; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ; INDEX