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Selected Essays on Pre- And Early Modern Mathematical Practice
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ISBN10: 3030192571
ISBN13: 9783030192570
Publisher: Springer
Published: Oct 7 2019
Pages: 969
Weight: 3.39
Height: 2.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
ISBN13: 9783030192570
Publisher: Springer
Published: Oct 7 2019
Pages: 969
Weight: 3.39
Height: 2.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Part I: Main roads and odd corners
Introduction
On Parts of Parts and Ascending Continued Fractions: An Investigation of the Origins and Spread of a Peculiar System
A Note on Old Babylonian Computational Techniques
On a Collection of Geometrical Riddles and Their Role in the Shaping of Four to Six Algebras
Introduction
On Parts of Parts and Ascending Continued Fractions: An Investigation of the Origins and Spread of a Peculiar System
A Note on Old Babylonian Computational Techniques
On a Collection of Geometrical Riddles and Their Role in the Shaping of Four to Six Algebras
Mahavira's Geometrical Problems: Traces of Unknown Links between Jaina and Mediterranean Mathematics in the Classical Ages
Sanskrit-Prakrit Interaction in Elementary Mathematics as Reflected in Arabic and Italian Formulations of the Rule of Three - and Something More on the Rule Elsewhere
Geometrical Patterns in the Pre-classical Greek Area: Prospecting the Borderland between Decoration, Art, and Structural Inquiry
Broad Lines - A Forgotten Geometrical Ambiguity
Concerning the Position of Heron's Formula in the Metrica (with a Platonic note)
Heron, ps-Heron, and Near Eastern Practical Geometry: An Investigation of Metrica, Geometrica, and other Treatises
Which Kind of Mathematics was Known and Referred to by Those Who Wanted to Integrate Mathemaitcs in Wisdom - Neopythagoreans and Others?
The Rare Traces of Constructional Procedures in Practical Geometries
About the Italian Background to Rechenmeister Mathematics
The Unknown Heritage - Trace of a Forgotten Locus of Mathematical Sophistication
A Diluted al-Karaji in Abbacus Mathematics
Proportions in and around the Italian Abbacus Tradition
Archimedes - Knowledge and Lore from Latin Antiquity to the Outgoing European Renaissance Part II: Oblique glances and birds-eye views
Existence, Sustainability, and Counterfactuality: Observations on the Status of Mathematics According to Aristotle, Euclid, and Others
Conceptual Divergence - Cannons and Taboos - and Critique
Tertium non datur, or, On Reasoning Styles in Early Mathematics
Embedding - Multi-purpose Device for Understanding Mathematics and Its Development, or Empty Generalization?
What is Geometric Algebra, and wWhat Has it Been in Historiography?
State, Justice, Scribal Culture and Mathematics in Ancient Mesopotamia. Sarton Lecture 2008
How to Educate a Kapo: Reflections on the Absence of a Culture of Mathematical Problems in Ur III
A Hypothetical History of Old Babylonian Mathematics - Places, Passages, Stages, Development
Written Mathematical Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia: Knowledge, Ignorance, and Reasonable Guesses
Mesopotamian Mathematics, Seen From the Inside (by Assyriologists) and From the Outside (by Historians of Mathematics)
Fibonacci - Protagonist or Witness? Who Taught Catholic Christian Europe about Mediterranean Commercial Arithmetic?
What did Abbacus Teachers Aim at When They (Sometimes) Ended up Doing Mathematics?
Hesitating Progress - the Slow Development toward Algebraic Sybolization in Abbacus- and Related Manuscripts, c. 1300 To c. 1550
Embedding - Another Case of Stumbling Progress
Baroque Mindset and New Science: A Dialectic of 17th-Century High Culture. Sarton Chair Lecture, Ghent University, 13 November 2008
Sanskrit-Prakrit Interaction in Elementary Mathematics as Reflected in Arabic and Italian Formulations of the Rule of Three - and Something More on the Rule Elsewhere
Geometrical Patterns in the Pre-classical Greek Area: Prospecting the Borderland between Decoration, Art, and Structural Inquiry
Broad Lines - A Forgotten Geometrical Ambiguity
Concerning the Position of Heron's Formula in the Metrica (with a Platonic note)
Heron, ps-Heron, and Near Eastern Practical Geometry: An Investigation of Metrica, Geometrica, and other Treatises
Which Kind of Mathematics was Known and Referred to by Those Who Wanted to Integrate Mathemaitcs in Wisdom - Neopythagoreans and Others?
The Rare Traces of Constructional Procedures in Practical Geometries
About the Italian Background to Rechenmeister Mathematics
The Unknown Heritage - Trace of a Forgotten Locus of Mathematical Sophistication
A Diluted al-Karaji in Abbacus Mathematics
Proportions in and around the Italian Abbacus Tradition
Archimedes - Knowledge and Lore from Latin Antiquity to the Outgoing European Renaissance Part II: Oblique glances and birds-eye views
Existence, Sustainability, and Counterfactuality: Observations on the Status of Mathematics According to Aristotle, Euclid, and Others
Conceptual Divergence - Cannons and Taboos - and Critique
Tertium non datur, or, On Reasoning Styles in Early Mathematics
Embedding - Multi-purpose Device for Understanding Mathematics and Its Development, or Empty Generalization?
What is Geometric Algebra, and wWhat Has it Been in Historiography?
State, Justice, Scribal Culture and Mathematics in Ancient Mesopotamia. Sarton Lecture 2008
How to Educate a Kapo: Reflections on the Absence of a Culture of Mathematical Problems in Ur III
A Hypothetical History of Old Babylonian Mathematics - Places, Passages, Stages, Development
Written Mathematical Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia: Knowledge, Ignorance, and Reasonable Guesses
Mesopotamian Mathematics, Seen From the Inside (by Assyriologists) and From the Outside (by Historians of Mathematics)
Fibonacci - Protagonist or Witness? Who Taught Catholic Christian Europe about Mediterranean Commercial Arithmetic?
What did Abbacus Teachers Aim at When They (Sometimes) Ended up Doing Mathematics?
Hesitating Progress - the Slow Development toward Algebraic Sybolization in Abbacus- and Related Manuscripts, c. 1300 To c. 1550
Embedding - Another Case of Stumbling Progress
Baroque Mindset and New Science: A Dialectic of 17th-Century High Culture. Sarton Chair Lecture, Ghent University, 13 November 2008
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