EDITORIALS      

    

    A Message to Readers of Historia Mathematica from the 

          Past Chairman of the International Commission on History 

          of Mathematics 

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

    

    A Message from the International Commission on the History 

          of Mathematics 

          Eberhard H. Knobloch ................................................... 3

    

    David E. Rowe and Karen Hunger Parshall ...................................... 5

         

    Pietro Mengoli and the Six-Square Problem 

          P. Natasi and A. Scimone .............................................. 10

     

    Der ``Vierfeldertest'' von Carl Liebermeister (Bemerkungen zur 

          Entwicklung der medizinischen Statistik im 19.~Jahrhundert) 

          Robert Ineichen ....................................................... 28

    

    Dirichlet's Contributions to Mathematical Probability Theory 

          Hans Fischer .......................................................... 39

    

    NOTE<\b>

    Riemann and the Cauchy-Hadamard Formula for the Convergence of Power 

          Series  

          Detlef Laugwitz and Erwin Neuenschwander .............................. 64

    

    SOURCES

    Bibliography of Publications by B. L. van der Waerden since  1983 on

          Ancient and Medieval Science  ......................................... 71

    

    REVIEWS

    Mathématisations. Augustin-Louis Cauchy et l'école française, 

          by Amy Dahan Dalmedico  

          (I. Grattan-Guinness) ................................................. 88

    

    Mathematics of the 19th Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number

          Theory, Probability Theory, edited by A. N. Kolmogorov  and 

          A. P. Yushkevich 

          (Jeremy Gray) ......................................................... 93

    

    Operations Analysis in the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force in World War II,

          by Charles W. McArthur 

          (Robin E. Rider) ...................................................... 95

    

    ABSTRACTS ................................................................... 97

    

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