Table of Contents

Communicating Mathematics across Culture and Time.- Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnomathematics.- East and West.- Rationality and the Disunity of the Sciences.- Logics and Mathematics: Challenges Arising in Working across Cultures.- A Historiographical Proposal for Non-Western Mathematics.- The Uses of Mathematics in Ancient Iraq, 6000-600 BC.- Egyptian Mathematics.- Islamic Mathematics.- The Hebrew Mathematical Tradition.- Inca Mathematics.- Mesoamerican Mathematics.- The Ethnomathematics of the Sioux Tipi and Cone.- Traditional Mathematics in Pacific Cultures.- Aboriginal Australian Mathematics: Disparate Mathematics of Land Ownership.- On Mathematical Ideas in Cultural Traditions of Central and Southern Africa.- Accounting Mathematics in West Africa: Some Stories of Yoruba Number.- Chinese Mathematical Astronomy.- The Mathematical Accomplishments of Ancient Indian Mathematicians.- The Dawn of Wasan (Japanese Mathematics).- Development of Materials for Ethnomathematics in Korea.

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`...the book is a worthwhile addition to the bookshelf of teachers of mathematics at any level. It provides a useful antidote to the notion that all mathematical ideas were developed in Western Europe and provides the teacher with a numerous example by which to convince students that, indeed, every culture has mathematics.'
Mathematical Reviews, 2002a