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<pgerdes@virconn.com> New edition: Paulus Gerdes & Ahmed Djebbar: Mathematics in African History and Cultures: An annotated Bibliography (430 pp., ISBN 978-1-4303-1537-7). This volume constitutes an updated and extended version of the bibliography published under the same name in 2004 by the African Mathematical Union. The African Studies Association attributed the original edition a special mentionš in the 2006 Conover-Porter Award competition. The book contains over 1600 bibliographic entries. The appendices contain additional bibliographic information on (1) mathematicians of the Diaspora, (2) publications by Africans on the history of mathematics outside Africa, (3) time-reckoning and astronomy in African history and cultures, (4) string figures in Africa, (5) examples of books published by African mathematicians, (6) board games in Africa, (7) research inspired by geometric aspects of the sonaš tradition. The book concludes with several indices (subject, country, region, author, ethnographic and linguistic, journal, mathematicians). Professor Jan Persens of the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) and president of the African Mathematical Union (AMU, 2000-2004) wrote the preface. The book is now available (both in print and as download) from www.lulu.com by searching Paulus Gerdes or by going to Gerdes' Lulu storefront, http://stores.lulu.com/pgerdes. Paulus Gerdes and Ahmed Djebbar are the chairman and secretary of the African Mathematical Union Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa (AMUCHMA). Both are fellows of the International Academy for the History of Science.
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