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UNINA9910796313403321 |
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Autore |
Plofker Kim <1964-> |
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Titolo |
Mathematics in India [[electronic resource] /] / Kim Plofker |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2009 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 357 p. ) : ill., map |
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Mathematics - India - HIstory |
Mathematics - India |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-351) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- List Of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Mathematical Thought in Vedic India -- Chapter 3. Mathematical Traces in the Early Classical Period -- Chapter 4. The Mathematical Universe -- Chapter 5. The Genre of Medieval Mathematics -- Chapter 6. The Development of "Canonical" Mathematics -- Chapter 7. The School of Mādhava in Kerala -- Chapter 8. Exchanges with the Islamic World -- Chapter 9. Continuity and Changes in the Modern Period -- Appendix A. Some Basic Features of Sanskrit Language and Literature -- Appendix B. Biographical Data on Indian Mathematicians -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Based on extensive research in Sanskrit sources, Mathematics in India chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Kim Plofker reexamines the few facts about Indian mathematics that have become common knowledge--such as the Indian origin of Arabic numerals--and she sets them in a larger textual and cultural framework. The book details aspects of the subject that have been largely passed over in the past, including the relationships between Indian mathematics and astronomy, and their cross-fertilizations with Islamic scientific traditions. Plofker shows that Indian mathematics appears not as a disconnected set of discoveries, but as a lively, diverse, yet strongly unified discipline, intimately linked to other Indian forms of learning. Far more than in other areas of the history of mathematics, the |
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literature on Indian mathematics reveals huge discrepancies between what researchers generally agree on and what general readers pick up from popular ideas. This book explains with candor the chief controversies causing these discrepancies--both the flaws in many popular claims, and the uncertainties underlying many scholarly conclusions. Supplementing the main narrative are biographical resources for dozens of Indian mathematicians; a guide to key features of Sanskrit for the non-Indologist; and illustrations of manuscripts, inscriptions, and artifacts. Mathematics in India provides a rich and complex understanding of the Indian mathematical tradition. **Author's note: The concept of "computational positivism" in Indian mathematical science, mentioned on p. 120, is due to Prof. Roddam Narasimha and is explored in more detail in some of his works, including "The Indian half of Needham's question: some thoughts on axioms, models, algorithms, and computational positivism" (Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 28, 2003, 1-13). |
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UNINA9910778664503321 |
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Titolo |
Telemedicine [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to assessing telecommunications in health care / / Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine, Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine ; Marilyn J. Field, editor |
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Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1996 |
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0-309-17539-9 |
1-280-19190-2 |
9786610191901 |
0-309-55312-1 |
0-585-02110-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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FieldMarilyn J (Marilyn Jane) |
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Disciplina |
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Telecommunication in medicine - Evaluation |
Telecommunication in medicine - United States - Evaluation |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-225) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Telemedicine""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Telemedicine""; ""Summary""; ""TELEMEDICINE PAST AND PRESENT""; ""CHALLENGES IN EVALUATING CLINICAL TELEMEDICINE""; ""A FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATION""; ""BASIC EVALUATION QUESTIONS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX: QUESTIONS ABOUT THE QUALITY, ACCESSIBILITY, COST, AND ACCEPTABILITY OF TELEMEDICINE""; ""Evaluating Quality of Care and Health Outcomes""; ""Evaluating Access to Care""; ""Evaluating Health Care Costs and Cost-Effectiveness""; ""Evaluating Patient Perceptions""; ""Evaluating Clinician Perceptions"" |
""1 Introduction and Background """"TELEMEDICINE IN CONTEXT""; ""THE DEMAND FOR EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS""; ""STUDY ORIGINS AND APPROACH""; ""TERMS AND DEFINITIONS""; ""Telemedicine""; ""Classifying Clinical Applications of Telemedicine""; ""Evaluation""; ""STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT""; ""2 Evolution and Current Applications of Telemedicine""; ""EVOLUTION OF DISTANCE COMMUNICATION""; ""DEVELOPMENT OF TELEMEDICINE""; ""CURRENT APPLICATIONS OF TELEMEDICINE""; ""Growth and Diversity""; ""Teleradiology""; ""Care in the Home and Other Nonclinical Sites""; ""Telemedicine for Prison Populations"" |
""Rural Telepsychiatry""""Postsurgical Monitoring in an Urban Nursing Home""; ""Telemedicine in a Managed Care System""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""3 The Technical and Human Context of Telemedicine""; ""THE TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE""; ""Variation in User Needs and Circumstances""; ""Variety and Complexity of Technologies""; ""Information Carrying Capacity""; ""Information Transmission Media""; ""Information Restructuring and Digital Technologies""; ""Making the Pieces Work Together""; ""Standards for Hardware and Software""; ""Managing the Old and the New"" |
""HUMAN FACTORS AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF TELEMEDICINE""""Growing Recognition of Human Factors""; ""Practical Human Factors""; ""Problems Related to Equipment""; ""Difficulty of Incorporating Telemedicine into Existing Practice""; ""Inadequate Assessment of Needs and Preferences""; ""Cultural and Socioeconomic Factors""; ""Professional Culture and Image""; ""Lack of Documented Benefit""; ""Lack of Payment for Telemedicine Services""; ""Health Care Restructuring""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""4 The Policy Context of Telemedicine""; ""NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY"" |
""STATE PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES""""PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE AND DISTANCE MEDICINE""; ""Current Policies""; ""Issues""; ""Policy Options""; ""A Note on Credentialing""; ""MALPRACTICE LIABILITY""; ""Current Policies""; ""Issues""; ""Policy Options""; ""PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY, AND SECURITY""; ""Current Policies""; ""Issues""; ""Policy Options""; ""Technical and Administrative Options""; ""PAYMENT POLICIES FOR TELEMEDICINE""; ""Fee-for-Service Payment and Telemedicine""; ""Per Case or Other Bundled Payment Methods""; ""Capitation Payment/Fixed Budget""; ""Other Financing Mechanisms"" |
""REGULATION OF MEDICAL DEVICES"" |
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