It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Professor Kurt 

      Vogel, to whose memory this issue is dedicated. Professor Vogel was born      on September 30, 1888, in Altdorf, and died on October 27, 1985, in      Munich. A member of sev

      Eloge by Menso Folkerts will appear in a later issue.                  



A Message from the International Commission on the History 

      of Mathematics 

      Joseph W. Dauben ....................................................... 1



Editorial 

      Eberhard H. Knobloch and Helena M. Pycior .............................. 3



Auszüge aus einer unveröffentlichten Korrespondenz von Emmy 

      Noether und Hermann Weyl mit Heinrich Brandt 

      Werner Jentsch . 5



Refugee Mathematicians: A German Crisis and a British Response,      

      1933--1936 





NOTES      



Euler's Work on Number Theory: A Concordance for A. Weil's 

      Number Theory 

      J. J. Burckhardt ...................................................... 28



Chinese Mathematics: Some Bibliographic Comments 

      A. P. Youschkevitch ................................................... 36



On Rewriting the History of the Foundations of Mathematics at 

      the Turn of the Century 

      Alejandro R. Garciadiego .............................................. 39



SOURCES      



      Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre ............................... 42



Discovery of an 11th-Century Geometrical Compilation: The Isikmaal 

      of Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud, King of Saragossa 

      Jan P. Hogendijk ...................................................... 43



The Three Parts of the Dirichlet Nachlass 

      Gert Schubring ........................................................ 52



REVIEWS      



Little Sparrow: A Portrait of Sophia Kovalevsky, by Don H. Kennedy      

      (Roger Cooke) ......................................................... 74



Frege, Dedekind, and Peano on the Foundations of Arithmetic.      

      Methodology and Science Foundation, by D. A. Gillies 

      (Thomas Drucker) ...................................................... 77



Never at Rest. A Biography of Isaac Newton, by Richard S. Westfall      

      (E. J. Aiton) ......................................................... 78



A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America, by      

      Patricia Cline Cohen 

      (Nathan J. Swetz) ..................................................... 86



Geometry and Algebra in Ancient Civilizations, by B. L. van der Waerden 

      (Frank J. Swetz) ...................................................... 83



Number Theory: An Approach through History: Hammurapi 

      to Legendre, by A. Weil 

      (Jeremy Gray) ......................................................... 86



      ABSTRACTS........................................................ 89                              

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