1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784042703321

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

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.

UNINA9910165155003321

Autore

Crochick José Leon

Titolo

Bullying, Prejudice and School Performance : A New Approach / / by José Leon Crochick, Nicole Crochick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-52404-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 84 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in School Psychology, , 2520-8918

Disciplina

371.7820981

Soggetti

Child psychology

School psychology

Education

Children

Adolescence

Developmental psychology

Educational sociology

Child and School Psychology

Education, general

Childhood, Adolescence and Society

Developmental Psychology

Sociology of Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Two Forms of School Violence: Bullying and Prejudice -- Chapter 2. Objectives and Research Method -- Chapter 3. Analysis and Discussion of the Survey Data -- Chapter 4. Proposals for addressing School Violence -- Appendix: Research Instruments.

Sommario/riassunto

This brief presents a new approach to the study of bullying and prejudice in school settings, analyzing the particularities of these two forms of violence and relating them to the hierarchies that distinguish students based on academic performance and popularity. Analyzing data gathered by surveys carried out between 2010 and 2014 with 274 students from public schools of São Paulo, Brazil, the authors show that, despite bullying and prejudice are related, they have specific characteristics that need to be acknowledged in order to help educators develop more efficient initiatives to prevent them. Building upon the Critical Theory of Society – especially Adorno’s studies of authoritarian personality and school hierarchies – the authors develop a theoretical framework that helps researchers and educators to identify the particularities of bullying and prejudice and develop specific strategies to deal with them. In addition, the empirical and theoretical elements presented in the book show how these forms of violence are related to the two hierarchies that exist side by side in schools – the official hierarchy that distinguishes good and bad students based on their academic performance and the unofficial hierarchy characterized by the distinction between those who excel in dating, fighting, in team sports and those who do not excel in any of these activities. This innovative volume: • Argues that bullying and prejudice are different forms of school violence that demand different theoretical and practical approaches • Examines data gathered by surveys carried out with 274 students of public schools in São Paulo, Brazil, between 2010 and 2014 • Relates bullying and prejudice to the hierarchies that distinguish students based both on their academic performance and popularity • Analyzes the impact of factors such as autonomy from the school authority and the ideology of authoritarianism on bullying and prejudice • Presents strategies to fight bullying and prejudice in schools Bullying, Prejudice and School Performance: A New Approach is a useful and innovative tool for psychologists, educators, sociologists, school teachers and researchers in the fields of child and school psychology, educational psychology, sociology of education and related disciplines. .