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Needham/NRI2/SCC2/64 contains:
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56 Letter from Michael R. Tetley of London, thanking Joseph Needham for providing references on the abacus
57 Cutting of a published letter to the editor of 'The Listener' from J. T. Davis of Worcester disputing the development of mathematics by the Chinese, Hindus and Arabs in prehistoric times
58 Copy of a reviews by T. H. Savory published in 'Nature', including a review of Prof. Dirk J Struik's, 'A Concise History of Mathematics', (New York, 1948)
59 Two letters from J. D. M. Derret of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London asking for help with his work on the origins of Arabic numerals
60 Correspondence with W. French Anderson of Trinity College, Cambridge, about his work on the history of numerical notation systems and related documents
61 Correspondence with Prof. Lancelot Hogben of the Department of Medical Statistics, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, about his book 'Mathematics in the Making'
62 Letter from Prof. A. Yuschkevitch of the Institute of the History of Science and Technology, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. about the mathematician, al-Khwarizmi and copy of Joseph Needham's reply
63 Copy of a paper by ?? [Li Nien / Li Nian] about the Arabic magic square in China, published in «??????» [Wên Wu Tshan Khao Tzu Liao / Wen Wu Can Kao Zi Liao]
64 Joseph Needham's typescript summaries of two works by ?? [Li Nien / Li Nian] published in «??»[Kho Hsüeh / Ke Xue], 1957
65 Letter from Victor Meally of County Dublin, Eire, commenting on the section on Pi in 'Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 3' and copy of Joseph Needham's reply
66 Cutting of an anonymous newspaper article entitled ''Pi' can never be worked out'
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Papers of Joseph Needham as a historian of Chinese science, technology and medicine

Title Correspondence with Prof. Lancelot Hogben of the Department of Medical Statistics, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, about his book 'Mathematics in the Making'
Reference SCC2/64/61
Creator Hogben, Lancelot; Needham, Joseph.
Covering Dates 8 Apr. 1959–21 Apr. 1959
Extent and Medium 6 sheets; Paper
Content and context

Joseph Needham responds to Hogben's questions on the 'Pythagorean theorem in the 'Chou Pei Suan Ching''; Chinese trigonometry; the relation of positional computations and the zero symbol'.

Index Terms
Hogben, Lancelot Thomas (1895-1975) zoologist and geneticist
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