Episodes from the early history of mathematics / / by Asger Aaboe
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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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| 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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