Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice
This book presents a broad selection of articles mainly published during the last two decades on a variety of topics within the history of mathematics, mostly focusing on particular aspects of mathematical practice. This book is of interest to, and provides methodological inspiration for, historians...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2019.
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| Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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)
- Mero, 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
- 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 what 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.
