Al-Mu'taman ibn Hud, 11th Century King of Saragossa 

      and Brilliant Mathematician 

      Jan P. Hogendijk ....................................................... 1



Halley, Cotes, and the Nautical Meridian 

      Ronald Gowing ......................................................... 19



``What Fermented in Me for Years'': Cantor's Discovery of 

      Transfinite Numbers 

      José Ferreirós ........................................................ 33



Dubbiezze e controversie: Il dibattito su logica e probabilità 

      in Italia nei prima anni del Novecento 

      Margherita Benzi ...................................................... 43



NOTE      



Zwei mittelalterlich arabische Ausgaben der ``Sphaerica'' des 

      Menelaos von Alexandria 

      Gulnava Yussupova ..................................................... 64



REVIEWS      



Fleeting Footsteps: Tracing the Conception of Arithmetic and 

      Algebra in Ancient China , by Lam Lay Yong and Ang Tian Se 

      (Jean-Claude Martzloff) ............................................... 67



Briefwechsel zwischen Karl Weiersta\ss \ und Sofia Kowalewskaja, 

      edited by Rienhard Bölling 

      (Roger Cooke) ......................................................... 73



The Search for E. T. Bell, Also Known as John Taine, by 

      Constance Reid 

      (Albert C. Lewis) ..................................................... 78



Mathématiques Égyptiennes. Recherches sur les connaissances

 mathématiques de l'Égypte pharaonique, by Sylvia Couchoud 

      (Maurice Caveing) ..................................................... 80



Peri Ton Mathematon (Apeiron, Vol. XXIX, No. 4)}, 

      edited by Ian Mueller 

      (Jens Høyrup) ......................................................... 84



IN MEMORIAM      



Fedor Andreevich Medvedev (1923--1993) 

      Evgeny A. Zaitsev ..................................................... 88



      ABSTRACTS ............................................................. 93                              

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