1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450960003321

Autore

Friberg Jöran

Titolo

Amazing traces of a Babylonian origin in Greek mathematics [[electronic resource] /] / Jöran Friberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, N.J. ; ; London, : World Scientific, c2007

ISBN

1-281-12135-5

9786611121358

981-270-884-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (497 p.)

Disciplina

510.938

Soggetti

Mathematics, Greek

Mathematics, Babylonian

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Contents; 1. Elements II and Babylonian Metric Algebra; 2. El. I.47 and the Old Babylonian Diagonal Rule; 3. Lemma El. X.28/29 1a, Plimpton 322, and Babylonian igi-igi.bi Problems; 4. Lemma El. X.32/33 and an Old Babylonian Geometric Progression; 5. Elements X and Babylonian Metric Algebra; 6. Elements IV and Old Babylonian Figures Within Figures; 7. El. VI.30, XIII.1-12, and Regular Polygons in Babylonian Mathematics; 8. El. XIII.13-18 and Regular Polyhedrons in Babylonian Mathematics; 9. Elements XII and Pyramids and Cones in Babylonian Mathematics

10. El. I.43-44, El. VI.24-29, Data 57-59, 84-86, and Metric Algebra11. Euclid's Lost Book On Divisions and Babylonian Striped Figures; 12. Hippocrates' Lunes and Babylonian Figures with Curved Boundaries; 13. Traces of Babylonian Metric Algebra in the Arithmetica of Diophantus; 14. Heron's, Ptolemy's, and Brahmagupta's Area and Diagonal Rules; 15. Theon of Smyrna's Side and Diagonal Numbers and Ascending Infinite Chains of Birectangles; 16. Greek and Babylonian Square Side Approximations; 17. Theodorus of Cyrene's Irrationality Proof and Descending Infinite Chains of Birectangles

18. The Pseudo-Heronic GeometricaAppendix 1. A Chain of Trapezoids



with Fixed Diagonals; Appendix 2. A Catalog of Babylonian Geometric Figures; Index of Texts, Propositions, and Lemmas; Index of Subjects; Bibliography; Comparative Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Babylonian Timelines

Sommario/riassunto

A sequel to Unexpected Links Between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics (World Scientific, 2005), this book is based on the author's intensive and ground breaking studies of the long history of Mesopotamian mathematics, from the late 4th to the late 1st millennium BC. It is argued in the book that several of the most famous Greek mathematicians appear to have been familiar with various aspects of Babylonian "metric algebra," a convenient name for an elaborate combination of geometry, metrology, and quadratic equations that is known from both Babylonian and pre-Babylonian mathematical clay tab

2.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIORMG0035686

Titolo

GIS : metodi e strumenti per un nuovo governo della città e del territorio / a cura di Angela Poletti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rimini, : Maggioli, \2001!

ISBN

8838719489

Descrizione fisica

313 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Ambiente & territorio ; 290

Disciplina

910

910.285574

Soggetti

Territorio - Archivi di dati

Collocazione

POZZO LIB.ECON MON                1198

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In testa al front.: Politecnico Milano; GisItinera.