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Aaboe Asger
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Titolo: |
Episodes from the early history of mathematics / / by Asger Aaboe
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Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : Mathematical Association of America, 1998 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 133 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 510.901 |
Soggetto topico: | Mathematics - History |
Mathematics, Ancient | |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Episodes from the early history of mathematics ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-88385-928-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910822032603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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