Publications

Books

  • Chasing Shadows. Mathematics, Astronomy, and the early History of Eclipse Reckoning Johns Hopkins University Press (Forthcoming, 2010)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Contributions

  • [Chapter in Book] "A Symbolic History of the Derivative", in MAA's Mathematical Time Capsules ed. A Shell-Gellasch and R. Jardine (Forthcoming June 2009)

  • [Chapter in Book] "Roots, Rocks and Newton-Raphson: Algorithms for Approximating the ?2 3000 Years Apart", in MAA's Mathematical Time Capsules ed. A Shell-Gellasch and R. Jardine Forthcoming June 2009)

  • [Chapter in Book] "Bernoulli's account of the Divergent Harmonic Series in Latin", in MAA's Mathematical Time Capsules ed. A Shell-Gellasch and R. Jardine (Forthcoming June 2009)

  • [Article] James A., Montelle C. and Williams P. From lessons to lectures: NCEA mathematics and first year performance. Int. Math. Ed. Res. J. (2008). doi: 10.1080/00207390802136552

  • [Chapter in Book] "Some Details on the Transmission of Astral Omens" in From the Banks of the Euphrates: Festschrift in Honor of Alice Louise Slotsky ed. M. Ross, pp. 295-314 (2007: Eisenbrauns)

  • [Encyclopedia Article]"South-Central Asian Science" co-authored with Toke L. Knudsen, in Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages), eds. Thomas F. Glick, Steven J. Livesey, Faith Wallis, Routledge, 2005.

  • [Article] "Signs from the Sky Signs from the Earth: The Diviner's Manual Revisited" in Under One Sky: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Ancient Near East, edited by John M. Steele and Annette Imhausen, Munster, Ugarit-Verlag, 2002.

  • [Article] "Proclus on Mathematics and the Ascent of the Soul", Brown Classical Journal, vol. 12 (2000).

Reviews

  • "Expounding the Mathematical Seed: A Translation of Bhaskara I on the Mathematical Chapter of the Aryabhatiya", by Agathe Keller for Historia Mathematica volume 35, issue 1 (Feb 2008), 47-50.

  • "The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam A Sourcebook" ed. Victor J. Katz for Aestimatio 4, (2007) 178-190.

  • "Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy: A Translation of the Heavens", by A. C. Bowen and R. B. Todd, for the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (Winter 2007, 13.3, 476-9).