A History of Mathematics (VOL.1 &2, Revised Edition) is specially edited by CarlBBoyer, who has combined the thousands years of development into the book. The book was firstly published in 1968 and published revised edition in 1991. There are no revisions but expanding in mathematics but, the expanding is unnecessarily to be revised. Some theorems are also used in our daily life due to they are of valuable meaning for human beings development.

Statistics-driven thinking is ubiquitous in modern society. In this study of the history of statistics, which begins with probability theory in the 17th century, Alain Desrosieres shows how the evolution of modern statistics has been inextricably bound up with the knowledge and power of governments. He traces the complex reciprocity between modern governments and the mathematical artifacts that both dictate the duties of the state and measure its successes.

The organisation of higher education across the world is one of several factors that conspire to create the assumption that our own map of the intellectual disciplines is, broadly speaking, valid cross-culturally. Disciplines in the Making challenges this in relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely philosophy, mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion and science. Lloyd focuses on historical and cross-cultural data that throw light on the different ways in which these disciplines were constituted and defined in different periods and civilisations, especially in ancient Greece and China, and how the relationships between them were understood, particularly when one or other discipline claimed hegemonic status (as happened, at different times, with philosophy, history, religion and science). He also explores the role of elites, whether positive (when they foster the professionalisation of a discipline) or negative (when they restrict recruitment to the profession, when they insist on adherence to established norms, concepts and practices and thereby inhibit further innovation). The issues are relevant to current educational policy in relation to the ever-increasing specialisation we see, especially in the sciences, and to the difficulties encountered in making the most of the opportunities for inter- or trans-disciplinary research.

本卷是国家哲学社会科学基金项目《中国民族学史》的下卷，与本书上卷一起构成对中国民族学发展史的全景式的回顾和描述。重点探讨中华人民共和国建立之后民族学在中国的发展、演变的历史过程，研究的注意力主要放在祖国大陆地区，也兼顾到台湾和香港的发展。
本卷分为十四章。首先，叙述了中国民族学学科的调整、研究范式的转变、苏联民族学的影响等方面，重点分析了20世纪50年代进行的民族识别、少数民族社会历史调查的缘起、发展过程、影响及缺陷；接着，回顾了自“反右斗争”之后，特别是“文化大革命”期间中国民族学所遭受的挫折和起伏；最后，展现了“文化大革命”后二十余年来中国民族学的最新进展，对这一时期展开的主要学术问题的争论给予了更多的注意，并对民族学学科在中国发展的问题与前景进行了讨论。在本卷中也用一定的篇幅回顾了民族学在台湾和香港发展的情况，对民族学研究在台湾的发展与变化进行了讨论。

从宽泛的意义上说，我们自己的学科图谱具有坚固不移的跨文化性。就这一假设的形成而言，全世界高等教育的结构充当了它的某个推动因素。《形成中的学科》在论及人类行为的八大领域时，对此观点做了挑战，这八大领域即哲学、数学、历史学、医学、艺术学、法学、宗教学和科学。劳埃德将注意力集中在历史和跨文化材料上，它们阐明了各学科在不同时期、不同文明中得以构建起来、得到界定的不同方式，尤其是在古希腊和中国。它们还阐明了各学科之间的关系当怎样进行理解，特别是在不同学科宣称享有霸权地位之时（这在历史上的不同时期曾发生在哲学、历史学、宗教学和科学身上）。劳埃德还探索了精英所扮演的角色，无论是积极（在他们推动学科专业化的时候）还是消极（在他们收紧准入条件，坚持让人们遵从既定规则、概念、做法从而阻碍了进一步创新的时候）的角色。

研究民族学在中国的发展史，对中国民族学的发展有重要意义，认真总结中国民族学发展历程中的经验和教训，是学科发展的基本要求，亦是中国民族学家的责任。本卷主要研究20世纪前半期中国民族学的历史演变。