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UNINA9910966247403321 |
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Autore |
Aaboe Asger |
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Titolo |
Episodes from the early history of mathematics / / by Asger Aaboe |
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Washington, D.C., : Mathematical Association of America, 1998 |
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ISBN |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 133 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library ; ; 13 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mathematics - History |
Mathematics, Ancient |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Babylonian mathematics -- Early Greek mathematics and Euclid's construction of the regular pentagon -- Three samples of Archimedean mathematics -- Ptolemy's construction of a trigonometric table. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Among other things, Aaboe shows us how the Babylonians did calculations, how Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes, how Ptolemy constructed a trigonometric table in his Almagest, and how Archimedes trisected the angle. Some of the topics may be familiar to the reader, while others will seem surprising or be new. |
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