Methods of Solving Linear Equations in Traditional China
Lam Lay-Yong and Shen Kangshen ....................................... 107
Pour l'histoire des sept premiers nombres parfais
Ettore Picutti ....................................................... 123
The 1740 Resolution of the Fermat-Descartes Controversy
Luigi Indorato and Pietro Natasi ..................................... 137
NOTES
Fermat's Theorem
Colin R. Fletcher .................................................... 149
An Extremal Problem in Harriot's Mathematics
P. C. Fenton ......................................................... 154
REVIEWS
Gau\ss, Eine biographische Studie, by Walter Kaufmann-Bühler
(Karen Reich) ........................................................ 178
Napoleon und die Naturwissenschaften, by Joachim Fischer
(Christoph J. Scriba) ................................................ 180
Teubner-Archiv zur Mathematik, Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft,
Leipsig , Vols. 1--6, by C. F. Gauß, et al.
(Karen Reich) ........................................................ 180
La République avait besoin de savants, by Janis Langins, and
Histoire de l'École Polytechnique, by Ambroise Fourcy
(W. A. Smeaton) ...................................................... 184
Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam, by J. L. Berggren
(George Saliba) ...................................................... 188
Chinese Mathematics: A Concise History, by Li Yan and Du Shiran
(Frank Swetz) ........................................................ 191
ABSTRACTS ............................................................ 194
