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UNISA996418194603316 |
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Autore |
Patras Frédéric |
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Titolo |
The essence of numbers / / Frédéric Patras |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XI, 176 p. 1 illus.) |
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Lecture notes in mathematics, History of mathematics subseries ; ; Volume 2278 |
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Number theory - History |
Mathematics - Philosophy - History |
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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 and index. |
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This book considers the manifold possible approaches, past and present, to our understanding of the natural numbers. They are treated as epistemic objects: mathematical objects that have been subject to epistemological inquiry and attention throughout their history and whose conception has evolved accordingly. Although they are the simplest and most common mathematical objects, as this book reveals, they have a very complex nature whose study illuminates subtle features of the functioning of our thought. Using jointly history, mathematics and philosophy to grasp the essence of numbers, the reader is led through their various interpretations, presenting the ways they have been involved in major theoretical projects from Thales onward. Some pertain primarily to philosophy (as in the works of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Wittgenstein...), others to general mathematics (Euclid's Elements, Cartesian algebraic geometry, Cantorian infinities, set theory...). Also serving as an introduction to the works and thought of major mathematicians and philosophers, from Plato and Aristotle to Cantor, Dedekind, Frege, Husserl and Weyl, this book will be of interest to a wide variety of readers, from scholars with a general interest in the philosophy or mathematics to philosophers and mathematicians themselves. |
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UNINA9910823086903321 |
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Autore |
Poullada S. Peter |
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Russian-Turkmen encounters : the Caspian frontier before the Great Game / / S. Peter Poullada ; with translations by Claora E. Styron |
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London, England : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2019 |
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[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019 |
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1-350-98787-5 |
1-78672-234-8 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxx, 181 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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International Library of Central Asian Studies ; ; 9 |
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Asia, Central History |
Russia History 1689-1801 |
Russia History 1801-1917 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-174) and index. |
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Russian-Turkmen Frontier Encounters: 1558-1745 -- The Khan's Letter -- Astrakhan, the Turkmen of Mangyshlak and the Long-Distance Caravan Trade -- Turkmen, Uzbeks and Russians -- The Duel for Mangyshlak between Turkmen, Kalmyks and Kazakhs -- The Turkmen of Mangyshlak and the Kalmyks -- The Turkmen of Mangyshlak and the Kazakhs -- Russian-Turkmen Relations in the Era of Peter the Great -- Nadir Shah Afshar in Central Asia -- Conclusion -- The Journals of Captain Tebelev (1741) and Captain Kopytovskii (1745) -- Preface to the English Translation / Claora E. Styron -- Introduction / V. Razumovskaia, Claora E. Styron -- From the Journal of Captain G. Tebelev, 1741 -- 12 June {1741} -- 14 June {1741} -- June {1741} -- 17 (June) {1741} -- 18 June {1741} -- 19 June {1741} -- 22 June {1741} -- 23 June {1741} -- 25 June {1741} -- 26 June {1741} -- 27 June {1741} -- 28 June {1741} -- From the Journal of Captain V. Kopytovskii, 1745 -- 9 June {1745} -- 13 July {1745} -- {14 July 1745} -- 14 July {1745} -- 16 July {1745} -- 17 July {1745} -- 19 July {1745} -- 21 July {1745} -- 23 July {1745} -- 25 July {1745} -- 26 July {1745} -- 27 July {1745} -- 11 August {1745}. |
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In the mid-eighteenth century the Russian tsar sent two expeditions across the Caspian Sea in response to an extraordinary plea for assistance from the recently subjugated Kalmyk Khan. The official journals of these expeditions, here translated into English for the first time, record the encounters of Captains Tebelev and Kopitovskii (in 1741 and 1745, respectively) with the Turkmen tribes of the Caspian frontier zone. Together they form the basis for the author's study of the relationship between the expanding Russian empire and the tribal peoples of Central Asia over a period of more than 200 years. Drawing on Russian archival sources and Persian and Uzbek chronicles, this book provides a detailed exploration of the historical and political context of the encounters so vividly described in the two journals.--Publisher's description. |
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