The British Society for the HIstory of Mathematics has published issue 2 of their bulletin this year. This issue contains four interesting articles:

• Mathematics of currency and exchange: arithmetic at the end of the thirteenth century, by Norman Biggs 
• Formulating figurate numbers, by Janet L. Beery 
• Mathematics goes ballistic: Benjamin Robins, Leonhard Euler, and the mathematical education of military engineers, by Janet Heine Barnett 
• Bernt Michael Holmboe (1795–1850) and his mathematics textbooks, by Andreas Christiansen