Author: Francis Pierrepont BarnardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The Casting-counter and the Counting-board
Author: Francis Pierrepont BarnardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The Casting-counter and the Counting-board
Author: Francis Pierrepont BarnardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907498001
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Compte-rendu de Pierrepont Barnard (Francis). The Casting-Counter and the Counting-Board ; a chapter in the History of Numismatics and early Arithmetic. Oxford, 1916
Author: J.-Adrien BlanchetHistory of Mathematics
Author: David E. SmithPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486204307
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Within this two-volume edition, Professor Smith covers the entire history of mathematics in the Near and Far East and the West, from primitive number concepts to the calculus. His account is distinguished by impeccable scholarship combined with unusual clarity and readability. Footnotes add many technical points outside the book's actual line of development and direct the reader to disputed matters and source readings. Hundreds of illustrations from Egyptian papyri, Hindu, Chinese, and Japanese manuscripts, Greek and Roman texts, Medieval treatises, maps, portraits, etc. are used along with modern graphs and diagrams. Every major figure from Euclid to Descartes, Gauss, and Riemann and hundreds of lesser-known figures — Theon of Smyrna, Rabbi ben Ezra, Radulph of Laon, Mersenns, Benedetti, and more — are considered both with respect to specific problems and with an awareness of their overall influence on mathematics. Volume II: Special Topics, considering mathematics in terms of arithmetic geometry, algebra, trig, calculus, calculating machines, and other specific fields and problems. 192 Topics for Discussion. 195 illustrations. Index.
The Periodical
Author: Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations
Author: Robert Charles BellPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486238555
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Perhaps the most authoritative work on the subject, this encyclopedic volume is a basic reference to board and table games from around the world. It provides the rules and methods of play for more than 180 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'i (go), Backgammon, Pachisi, and many others. Over 300 photographs and line drawings.
Archaeologia Cantiana
Author: Advanced Abacus
Author: Takashi KojimaPublisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462903657
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This handy guide will take abacus users from beginner to master level in a very short time. Though the Japanese abacus may appear mysterious or even primitive, this intriguing tool is capable of amazing speed and accuracy. it is still widely used throughout the shop and markets of Asia and its popularity shows no sign of decline. This volume is designed for the student desiring a greater understanding of the abacus and its calculative functions. The text provides thorough explanations of the advanced operations involving negative numbers, decimals, different units of measurement, and square roots. Diagrams illustrate bead manipulation, and numerous exercises provide ample practice. Concise and easy-to-follow, this book will improve your abacus skills and help you perform calculations with greater efficiency and precision.
By the Numbers
Author: Jessica Marie OtisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197608779
Category : Numeracy
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society and modes of thought. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and women believed that God had made humans universally numerate, although numbers were not central to their everyday lives. Over the next two centuries, rising literacy rates and the increasing availability of printed books revolutionized modes of arithmetical education, upended the balance between the multiple symbolic systems used to express popular numeracy, and contributed to a wider transformation in numbers as a technology of knowledge"--
Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Author: Katharine D. ScherffPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000852822
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Through a multidisciplinary collection of case studies, this book explores the effects of the digital age on medieval and early modern studies. Divided into five parts, the book examines how people, medieval and modern, engage with medieval media and technology through an exploration of the theory underpinning audience interactions with historical materials in the past and the real-world engagement of a twenty-first century audience with medieval and early modern studies through the multimodal lens of a vast digital landscape. Each case study reveals the diversity of medieval media and technology and challenges readers to consider new types of literacy competencies as scholarly, rigorous methods of engaging in pre-modern investigations of materiality. Essays in the first section engage in the examination of medieval media, mediation, and technology from a theoretical framework, while the second section explores how digitization, smart technologies, digital mapping, and the internet have shaped medieval and early modern studies today. The book will be of interest to students in undergraduate or graduate intermediate or advanced courses as well as scholars, in medieval studies, art history, architectural history, medieval history, literary history, and religious history.