Africa counts [[electronic resource] ] : number and pattern in African cultures / / Claudia Zaslavsky |
Autore | Zaslavsky Claudia |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
Disciplina | 510 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnomathematics - Africa, Sub-Saharan
Games - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-61374-114-6
1-61374-115-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Copyright ; Dedication ; CONTENTS; FOREWORD TO THE 1999 EDITION; FOREWORD TO THE 1973 EDITION; PREFACE TO THE 1973 EDITION; SECTION 1 THE BACKGROUND; 1 African Mathematics?; 2 Historical Background; SECTION 2 NUMBERS-WORDS, GESTURES, SIGNIFICANCE; 3 Construction of Numeration Systems; 4 How Africans Count; 5 Taboos and Mysticism; SECTION 3 NUMBERS IN DAILY LlFE; 6 The African Concept of Time; 7 Numbers and Money; 8 Those Familiar Weights and Measures!; 9 Record-Keeping: Sticks and Strings; SECTION 4 MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS; 10 Games to Grow On
11 The Game Played by Kings and Cowherds-and Presidents, Too!12 Magic Squares; SECTION 5 PATTERN AND SHAPE; 13 Geometric Form in Architecture; 14 Part I: Geometric Form and Pattern in Art; 14a Part II: Geometric Symmetries in African Art, By D. W. Crowe, with Original Drawings; SECTION 6 REGIONAL STUDY: SOUTHWEST NIGERIA; 15 History of the Yoruba States and Benin; 16 Systems of Numeration; 17 Significant Numbers; 18 Time-Reckoning; 19 Markets and Currency; SECTION 7 REGIONAL STUDY: EAST AFRICA; 20 History of East Africa; 21 Spoken and Gesture Counting; 22 Number Superstitions 23 East African Time24 Wealth Means Cattle-and Other Livestock; SECTION 8 PAST AND FUTURE; 25 Pure Mathematics in Africa; 26 Update: Twenty-Five Years Later; APPENDIX; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER REFERENCES AND NOTES; BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: Marianne Schmidl; D. W. Crowe; Frank E. Chapman, Jr.; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Section A. Africa: Peoples, Languages, Geography; Section B. Subjects and Selected Authors; MAPS: Africa Today; Peoples Discussed in the Text Africa: Geographic Features and Ancient CitiesOld Sudanic Kingdoms; Distribution of Numeration Systems in Africa; Sixteenth-Century States of the Nigerian Region; Eastern Africa: Countries and Peoples |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453772703321 |
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Africa counts : number and pattern in African cultures / / Claudia Zaslavsky |
Autore | Zaslavsky Claudia |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 pages) |
Disciplina | 510 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnomathematics - Africa, Sub-Saharan
Games - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN |
1-61374-114-6
1-61374-115-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Copyright ; Dedication ; CONTENTS; FOREWORD TO THE 1999 EDITION; FOREWORD TO THE 1973 EDITION; PREFACE TO THE 1973 EDITION; SECTION 1 THE BACKGROUND; 1 African Mathematics?; 2 Historical Background; SECTION 2 NUMBERS-WORDS, GESTURES, SIGNIFICANCE; 3 Construction of Numeration Systems; 4 How Africans Count; 5 Taboos and Mysticism; SECTION 3 NUMBERS IN DAILY LlFE; 6 The African Concept of Time; 7 Numbers and Money; 8 Those Familiar Weights and Measures!; 9 Record-Keeping: Sticks and Strings; SECTION 4 MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS; 10 Games to Grow On
11 The Game Played by Kings and Cowherds-and Presidents, Too!; 12 Magic Squares; SECTION 5 PATTERN AND SHAPE; 13 Geometric Form in Architecture; 14 Part I: Geometric Form and Pattern in Art; 14a Part II: Geometric Symmetries in African Art, By D. W. Crowe, with Original Drawings; SECTION 6 REGIONAL STUDY: SOUTHWEST NIGERIA; 15 History of the Yoruba States and Benin; 16 Systems of Numeration; 17 Significant Numbers; 18 Time-Reckoning; 19 Markets and Currency; SECTION 7 REGIONAL STUDY: EAST AFRICA; 20 History of East Africa; 21 Spoken and Gesture Counting; 22 Number Superstitions 23 East African Time; 24 Wealth Means Cattle-and Other Livestock; SECTION 8 PAST AND FUTURE; 25 Pure Mathematics in Africa; 26 Update: Twenty-Five Years Later; APPENDIX; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER REFERENCES AND NOTES; BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: Marianne Schmidl; D. W. Crowe; Frank E. Chapman, Jr.; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Section A. Africa: Peoples, Languages, Geography; Section B. Subjects and Selected Authors; MAPS: Africa Today; Peoples Discussed in the Text; Africa: Geographic Features and Ancient Cities; Old Sudanic Kingdoms; Distribution of Numeration Systems in Africa; Sixteenth-Century States of the Nigerian Region; Eastern Africa: Countries and Peoples |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790510103321 |
Zaslavsky Claudia
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Chicago, : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 | ||
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Africa counts : number and pattern in African cultures / / Claudia Zaslavsky |
Autore | Zaslavsky Claudia |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 pages) |
Disciplina | 510 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnomathematics - Africa, Sub-Saharan
Games - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN |
1-61374-114-6
1-61374-115-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Copyright ; Dedication ; CONTENTS; FOREWORD TO THE 1999 EDITION; FOREWORD TO THE 1973 EDITION; PREFACE TO THE 1973 EDITION; SECTION 1 THE BACKGROUND; 1 African Mathematics?; 2 Historical Background; SECTION 2 NUMBERS-WORDS, GESTURES, SIGNIFICANCE; 3 Construction of Numeration Systems; 4 How Africans Count; 5 Taboos and Mysticism; SECTION 3 NUMBERS IN DAILY LlFE; 6 The African Concept of Time; 7 Numbers and Money; 8 Those Familiar Weights and Measures!; 9 Record-Keeping: Sticks and Strings; SECTION 4 MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS; 10 Games to Grow On
11 The Game Played by Kings and Cowherds-and Presidents, Too!; 12 Magic Squares; SECTION 5 PATTERN AND SHAPE; 13 Geometric Form in Architecture; 14 Part I: Geometric Form and Pattern in Art; 14a Part II: Geometric Symmetries in African Art, By D. W. Crowe, with Original Drawings; SECTION 6 REGIONAL STUDY: SOUTHWEST NIGERIA; 15 History of the Yoruba States and Benin; 16 Systems of Numeration; 17 Significant Numbers; 18 Time-Reckoning; 19 Markets and Currency; SECTION 7 REGIONAL STUDY: EAST AFRICA; 20 History of East Africa; 21 Spoken and Gesture Counting; 22 Number Superstitions 23 East African Time; 24 Wealth Means Cattle-and Other Livestock; SECTION 8 PAST AND FUTURE; 25 Pure Mathematics in Africa; 26 Update: Twenty-Five Years Later; APPENDIX; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER REFERENCES AND NOTES; BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: Marianne Schmidl; D. W. Crowe; Frank E. Chapman, Jr.; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Section A. Africa: Peoples, Languages, Geography; Section B. Subjects and Selected Authors; MAPS: Africa Today; Peoples Discussed in the Text; Africa: Geographic Features and Ancient Cities; Old Sudanic Kingdoms; Distribution of Numeration Systems in Africa; Sixteenth-Century States of the Nigerian Region; Eastern Africa: Countries and Peoples |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823268703321 |
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African Americans in Mathematics II : Fourth Conference for African-American researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, June 16--19, 1998 Rice University, Houston, Texas / N. Dean, C.M. McZeal, P.J. William, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Providence : American Mathematical Society, 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | xii, 168 p. ; 24 cm |
Disciplina | 510 |
Collana | Contemporary mathematics |
Soggetto non controllato | Matematica - Congressi |
ISBN | 0-8218-1195-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-990001495710403321 |
Providence : American Mathematical Society, 1998 | ||
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African diaspora journal of mathematics |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers |
Disciplina | 510 |
Soggetto topico | Mathematics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Periodicals. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | ADJM |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910215260003321 |
Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers | ||
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African-Americans in mathematics II : fourth Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, June 16-19, 1998, Rice University, Houston, Texas / / Nathaniel Dean, Cassandra M. McZeal, Pamela J. Williams, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1999] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
Disciplina | 510 |
Collana | Contemporary mathematics |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
African American mathematicians |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8218-7842-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of participants""; ""Part I: Research Talks""; ""Finite sums and products in Ramsey theory""; ""Computing an exact solution in interior-point methods for linear programming""; ""Just the facts, Jack: Truths and myths of automated theorem provers""; ""On the Sendov conjecture for polynomials with real critical points""; ""Chaos in relaxed Newton's method: The quadratic case""; ""Almost automorphic functions and applications to abstract evolution equations""; ""Moduli of complete intersections in weighted projective spaces""
""Asymptotic behavior of characters of representations of semi-simple Lie groups""""Part II: Poster Presentations""; ""A note on Riordan matrices""; ""Robustness of parameter estimates in misspecified generalized linear mixed models""; ""Part III: Historical Articles""; ""Contemporary national mathematics education issues and the civic mathematician""; ""A brief history of the National Association of Mathematicians, Inc""; ""Black research mathematicians in the United States"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480473003321 |
Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1999] | ||
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African-Americans in mathematics II : fourth Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, June 16-19, 1998, Rice University, Houston, Texas / / Nathaniel Dean, Cassandra M. McZeal, Pamela J. Williams, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1999] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
Disciplina | 510 |
Collana | Contemporary mathematics |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
African American mathematicians |
ISBN | 0-8218-7842-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of participants""; ""Part I: Research Talks""; ""Finite sums and products in Ramsey theory""; ""Computing an exact solution in interior-point methods for linear programming""; ""Just the facts, Jack: Truths and myths of automated theorem provers""; ""On the Sendov conjecture for polynomials with real critical points""; ""Chaos in relaxed Newton's method: The quadratic case""; ""Almost automorphic functions and applications to abstract evolution equations""; ""Moduli of complete intersections in weighted projective spaces""
""Asymptotic behavior of characters of representations of semi-simple Lie groups""""Part II: Poster Presentations""; ""A note on Riordan matrices""; ""Robustness of parameter estimates in misspecified generalized linear mixed models""; ""Part III: Historical Articles""; ""Contemporary national mathematics education issues and the civic mathematician""; ""A brief history of the National Association of Mathematicians, Inc""; ""Black research mathematicians in the United States"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788653503321 |
Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1999] | ||
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African-Americans in mathematics II : fourth Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, June 16-19, 1998, Rice University, Houston, Texas / / Nathaniel Dean, Cassandra M. McZeal, Pamela J. Williams, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1999] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
Disciplina | 510 |
Collana | Contemporary mathematics |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
African American mathematicians |
ISBN | 0-8218-7842-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of participants""; ""Part I: Research Talks""; ""Finite sums and products in Ramsey theory""; ""Computing an exact solution in interior-point methods for linear programming""; ""Just the facts, Jack: Truths and myths of automated theorem provers""; ""On the Sendov conjecture for polynomials with real critical points""; ""Chaos in relaxed Newton's method: The quadratic case""; ""Almost automorphic functions and applications to abstract evolution equations""; ""Moduli of complete intersections in weighted projective spaces""
""Asymptotic behavior of characters of representations of semi-simple Lie groups""""Part II: Poster Presentations""; ""A note on Riordan matrices""; ""Robustness of parameter estimates in misspecified generalized linear mixed models""; ""Part III: Historical Articles""; ""Contemporary national mathematics education issues and the civic mathematician""; ""A brief history of the National Association of Mathematicians, Inc""; ""Black research mathematicians in the United States"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825810703321 |
Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1999] | ||
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Aggiunte illustrative alla commemorazione del prof. Conte Giusto Bellavitis : brevi cenni sulle equipollenze immaginari, risoluzione delle equazioni, quaternioni, logismografia / E. N. Legnazzi |
Autore | Legnazzi, Nestore E. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Padova : P. Prosperini, 1881 |
Descrizione fisica | 247 p. ; 23 cm |
Disciplina | 510 |
Soggetto non controllato | Matematica |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNINA-990000037240403321 |
Legnazzi, Nestore E.
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Padova : P. Prosperini, 1881 | ||
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Aggregation de mathematiques / Claude Servien , Jean-Pierre Tual |
Autore | Servien, Claude |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Paris : Masson, 1990 |
Descrizione fisica | vii, 229 p. ; 24 cm |
Disciplina |
510
515 |
Soggetto non controllato |
Opere
Trattati Raccolte Analisi complessa |
ISBN | 2225820686 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-990002580100403321 |
Servien, Claude
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Paris : Masson, 1990 | ||
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