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Dr June Barrow-Green is a lecturer at the Centre For The History of The Mathematical Sciences with The Open University.

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Ancient MathematicsProduction team

By Dr June Barrow-Green (The Open University)

05 January 2010

When did mathematics begin? A natural question to ask, but unfortunately a very difficult one to answer, explains June Barrow-Green  Read more : Ancient Mathematics

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Babylonian numerals and problemsOpen2 team

By Dr June Barrow-Green (The Open University)

13 January 2005

Dr June Barrow-Green explains how the ancient Babylonians did maths, based an a sexagesimal place-value system.  Read more : Babylonian numerals and problems

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Egyptian MathematicsOU

By Dr June Barrow-Green (The Open University)

13 January 2005

The classical Greeks believed that mathematics was invented in Egypt but there is disappointingly little evidence of the Egyptians’ mathematical attainments. Dr June Barrow-Green examines...  Read more : Egyptian Mathematics

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Barrow-Green, June (2011). An American goes to Europe: three letters from Oswald Veblen to George Birkhoff in 1913/1914. The Mathematical Intelligencer, 33(4), pp. 37–47.

Barrow-Green, June (2011). Wranglers in exile. In: Flood, Raymond; Rice, Adrian and Wilson, Robin eds. Mathematics in Victorian Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 121–174.

Barrow-Green, June (2010). The dramatic episode of Sundman. Historia Mathematica, 37(2), pp. 164–203.

Barrow-Green, June (2010). Euler as an educator. BSHM Bulletin, 25(1), pp. 10–22.

Barrow-Green, June (2009). From cascades to calculus: Rolle's Theorem. In: Robson, Eleanor and Stedall, Jacqueline eds. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics. Oxford Handbooks in Mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 737–754.

Gowers, Timothy; Barrow-Green, June and Leader, Imre eds. (2008). The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Barrow-Green, June and Gray, Jeremy (2006). Geometry at Cambridge, 1863-1940. Historia Mathematica, 33(3), pp. 315–356.

Barrow-Green, June (2006). 'Much necessary for all sortes of men': 450 years of Euclid's 'Elements' in English. BSHM Bulletin, 21(1), pp. 2–25.

Barrow-Green, June (2005). Henri Poincare, memoir on the three-body problem (1890). In: Grattan-Guinness, I. ed. Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 627–638.

Barrow-Green, June (2004). Burnside’s applied mathematics. In: Neumann, Peter M.; Mann, A.J.S. and Tompson, Julia C. eds. The Collected Papers of William Burnside. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 63–70.

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Ancient Mathematics

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01 Jan 2012

Planetmath includes 20 Egyptian math encyclopedia entries ... the latest being RMP 32, a simple algebra problem written in the Middle Kingdom unit fraction numeration system: http://planetmath.org/... Read more : Ancient Mathematics

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01 Jan 2012

Old Kingdom math used a binary cursive algorithm that recorded weights and measures via a balance beam. The Book of the Dead shows these facts without revealing its oldest math secrets. A half dozen... Read more : Ancient Mathematics

Biography

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Dr June Barrow-Green is a lecturer at the Centre For The History of The Mathematical Sciences with The Open University.

Her interest in the history of mathematics originates from her undergraduate days at King’s College London when she wanted to find out more about the mathematicians responsible for the mathematics she was studying.

She is the author of the book Poincaré and the Three Body Problem which derives from her OU PhD thesis and which tells the story of the mathematical beginnings of chaos theory. Her current research interests include the history of dynamical systems, the role of British mathematicians in the First World War, and the use of history in mathematics education.

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