CONTENTS

1. Varieties of Mathematical Discourse in Pre-Modern Sociocultural Contexts: Mesopotamia, Greece, and the Latin Middle Ages

2. Subscientific Mathematics: Observations on a Pre-Modern Phenomenon

3. Mathematics and Early State Formation, or The Janus Face of Early Mesopotamian Mathematics: Bureaucratic Tool and Expression of Scribal Professional Autonomy

4. The Formation of "Islamic Mathematics": Sources and Conditions

5. Philosophy: Accident, Epiphenomenon, or Contributory Cause of the Changing Trends of Mathematics-A Sketch of the Development from the Twelfth Through the Sixteenth Century

6. Jordanus de Nemore: A Case Study on Thirteenth-Century Mathematical Innovation and Failure in Cultural Context

7. Platonism or Archimedism: On the Ideology and Self-Imposed Model of Renaissance Mathematicians (1400 to 1600)

8. On Mathematics and War: An Essay on the Implications, Past and Present, of the Military Involvement of the Mathematical Sciences for Their Development and Potentials. Written in collaboration with Bernheim Booss-Bavnbek

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