1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009046790403321

Titolo

Revue tunisienne de sciences sociales

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tunis, : Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Economiques et Sociales

ISSN

0035-4333

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910825631503321

Titolo

Revolutions and continuity in Greek mathematics / / edited by Michalis Sialaros

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-11-056527-7

3-11-056595-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 pages)

Collana

Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures ; ; 8

Disciplina

510.938

Soggetti

Mathematics, Greek

Geometry - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface / Sialaros, Michalis -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Revolutions in Greek Mathematics / Sialaros, Michalis -- Counter-Revolutions in Mathematics / Unguru, Sabetai -- Diophantus and Premodern Algebra: New Light on an Old Image / Christianidis, Jean -- Geometer, in a Landscape: Embodied Mathematics in Hero's Dioptra / Roby, Courtney -- How Much Does a Theorem Cost? / Sialaros, Michalis -- Diagrammatizing Mathematics: Some Remarks on a Revolutionary Aspect of Ancient Greek Mathematics



/ Lattmann, Claas -- Composition and Removal of Ratios in Geometric and Logistic Texts from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine Period / Acerbi, Fabio -- Why Did the Greeks Develop Proportion Theory? A Conjecture / Mendell, Henry -- Recursive Knowledge Procedures Informing the Design of the Parthenon : One Instance of Continuity between Greek and Near Eastern Mathematical Practices / Lehman, Geoff / Weinman, Michael -- Diophantus, al-Karajī, and Quadratic Equations / Oaks, Jeffrey A. -- Substantiae sunt sicut numeri: Aristotle on the Structure of Numbers / Galluzzo, Gabriele -- The Axiomatization of Mathematics and Plato's Conception of Knowledge in the Meno and the Republic / Karasmanis, Vassilis -- The Anthyphairetic Revolutions of the Platonic Ideas / Negrepontis, Stelios -- Name index -- General index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume brings together a number of leading scholars working in the field of ancient Greek mathematics to present their latest research. In their respective area of specialization, all contributors offer stimulating approaches to questions of historical and historiographical 'revolutions' and 'continuity'. Taken together, they provide a powerful lens for evaluating the applicability of Thomas Kuhn's ideas on 'scientific revolutions' to the discipline of ancient Greek mathematics. Besides the latest historiographical studies on 'geometrical algebra' and 'premodern algebra', the reader will find here some papers which offer new insights into the controversial relationship between Greek and pre-Hellenic mathematical practices. Some other contributions place emphasis on the other edge of the historical spectrum, by exploring historical lines of 'continuity' between ancient Greek, Byzantine and post-Hellenic mathematics. The terminology employed by Greek mathematicians, along with various non-textual and material elements, is another topic which some of the essays in the volume explore. Finally, the last three articles focus on a traditionally rich source on ancient Greek mathematics; namely the works of Plato and Aristotle.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910158948603321

Autore

Malaparte Curzio

Titolo

The Skin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco : , : Lucknow Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78625-767-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

MooreDavid

Disciplina

853.91

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- CHAPTER ONE-THE PLAGUE -- CHAPTER TWO-THE VIRGIN OF NAPLES -- CHAPTER THREE-THE WIGS -- CHAPTER FOUR-THE GREEN CARNATION -- CHAPTER FIVE-THE BLACK WIND -- CHAPTER SIX-GENERAL CORK'S BANQUET -- CHAPTER SEVEN-THE TRIUMPH OF CLORINDA -- CHAPTER EIGHT-THE HOLOCAUST -- CHAPTER NINE-THE FLAG -- CHAPTER TEN-THE TRIAL -- CHAPTER ELEVEN-THE DEAD GOD -- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER.

Sommario/riassunto

The Skin is the savage account of the American occupation of Naples, first European city to be liberated in World War II. Malaparte's bestseller is the famous tale of the orgiastic riot of licentiousness, debauchery, and sensuality which took place when the conquered Italians, men, women and children, long under the Fascist and Nazi boot, hastened to prostitute themselves to their American conquerors, the U. S. Army.  "Malaparte is a very great writer," said the noted critic, Pierre Lesdain. "The Skin is a tremendous work, a masterpiece. Writers like Henry Miller and Malaparte have such vitality, such vigor, such immense power that when viewed by ordinary men they seem monstrous. In The Skin everything is on a grand scale..."  Here at last is The Skin, the over two-million-copy best seller about the U.S. Army loose in occupied Naples in World War II. The power, violence, and cruelty in these pages are a passionate reaction to the spectacle of human degradation. In The Skin, the military decay and the destruction of Europe are taken to stand for



the moral collapse and revolution of modern life. The Skin has been hailed by readers and critics throughout the world as a work of epic proportions.  "MALAPARTE is a great writer. THE SKIN is a tremendous work.... In THE SKIN everything is on a grand scale."--Pierre Lesdain  "MALAPARTE is the most epic of all the great writers of Europe."--Robert Pick  "MALAPARTE is the prophet of a martyred, conquered Europe--a noble, despairing prophet whose song will remain unforgettable." Paul Levy