Author: Sir George Francis HillPublisher:
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Development of Arabic Numerals in Europe
Author: Sir George Francis HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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A History of Mathematical Notations
Author: Florian CajoriPublisher:
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Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A History of Mathematical Notations: Notations in elementary mathematics
Author: Florian CajoriPublisher:
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Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A History of Mathematical Notations
Author: Florian CajoriPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486161161
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
This classic study notes the origin of a mathematical symbol, the competition it encountered, its spread among writers in different countries, its rise to popularity, and its eventual decline or ultimate survival. 1929 edition.
The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
Author: Otto NeugebauerPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486223322
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Based on a series of lectures delivered at Cornell University in the fall of 1949, and since revised, this is the standard non-technical coverage of Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics and astronomy, and their transmission to the Hellenistic world. Entirely modern in its data and conclusions, it reveals the surprising sophistication of certain areas of early science, particularly Babylonian mathematics. After a discussion of the number systems used in the ancient Near East (contrasting the Egyptian method of additive computations with unit fractions and Babylonian place values), Dr. Neugebauer covers Babylonian tables for numerical computation, approximations of the square root of 2 (with implications that the Pythagorean Theorem was known more than a thousand years before Pythagoras), Pythagorean numbers, quadratic equations with two unknowns, special cases of logarithms and various other algebraic and geometric cases. Babylonian strength in algebraic and numerical work reveals a level of mathematical development in many aspects comparable to the mathematics of the early Renaissance in Europe. This is in contrast to the relatively primitive Egyptian mathematics. In the realm of astronomy, too, Dr. Neugebauer describes an unexpected sophistication, which is interpreted less as the result of millennia of observations (as used to be the interpretation) than as a competent mathematical apparatus. The transmission of this early science and its further development in Hellenistic times is also described. An Appendix discusses certain aspects of Greek astronomy and the indebtedness of the Copernican system to Ptolemaic and Islamic methods. Dr. Neugebauer has long enjoyed an international reputation as one of the foremost workers in the area of premodern science. Many of his discoveries have revolutionized earlier understandings. In this volume he presents a non-technical survey, with much material unique on this level, which can be read with great profit by all interested in the history of science or history of culture. 14 plates. 52 figures.
The Periodical
Author: Latin Palaeography
Author: Bernhard BischoffPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521367264
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It also contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination. Designed as a textbook, it contains a full and updated bibliography. Because the volume sets the development of Latin script in its cultural context, it also provides an unrivalled introduction to the nature of medieval Latin culture. It will be used extensively in the teaching of latin palaeography, and is unlikely to be superseded.
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"--
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