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Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world : numbers, measurements, and operations in documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia / / edited Karine Chemla, Agathe Keller, and Christine Proust
| Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world : numbers, measurements, and operations in documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia / / edited Karine Chemla, Agathe Keller, and Christine Proust |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (764 pages) |
| Disciplina | 780 |
| Collana | Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter |
| Soggetto topico | Mathematics |
| ISBN | 3-030-98361-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world: An introduction (Karine Chemla, in dialogue with Agathe Keller and Christine Proust) -- Part 1: Shaping quantities and relating them to numbers -- Chapter 2. Carrying bricks and bundling reed in theory and practice (Wolfgang Heimpel) -- Chapter 3. Measuring grain in early Bronze Age Mesopotamia: Form, use, and control of the bariga container in the Twenty-First Century BCE (Walther Sallaberger) -- Chapter 4. Volume, brickage and capacity in old Babylonian mathematical texts from Southern Mesopotamia (Christine Proust) -- Part 2: Interpreting numbers and quantities in texts -- Place value notations in the Ur III period: Marginal numbers in administrative texts (Ouyang Xiaoli and Christine Proust) -- Chapter 6. The Nazbalum in old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Robert Middeke-Conlin) -- Part 3. Working with operations and algorithms -- Chapter 7. Computing tools and representations of arithmetic (Baptiste Mélès) -- Chapter 8. Working on and with division in early China, Third Century BCE—Seventh Century CE (Karine Chemla) -- Chapter 9. Multiplying integers: On the diverse practices of medieval Sanskrit authors (Agathe Keller and Catherine Morice-Singh) -- Part 4. Different cultures of computation and quantification -- Chapter 10. Another culture of computation from 7th century China (Zhu Yiwen) -- Chapter 11. The characteristics of mathematical methods in the Wu Cao Suanjing and its social background (Zou Dahai and Chen Wei) -- Chapter 12. Weighing units and weights in the context of trade between upper Mesopotamia and Anatolia (Nineteenth and Eighteenth Centuries BCE) (Cécile Michel) -- Chapter 13. Quantification and computation in the mathematical texts of old Babylonian Diyala (Carlos Gonçalves) -- Index. . |
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] | ||
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Mathematics, administrative and economic activities in ancient worlds / / Cécile Michel, Karine Chemla, editors
| Mathematics, administrative and economic activities in ancient worlds / / Cécile Michel, Karine Chemla, editors |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VI, 568 p. 162 illus., 35 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 510.93 |
| Collana | Why the sciences of the ancient world matter |
| Soggetto topico | Mathematics, Ancient |
| ISBN | 3-030-48389-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in the Ancient Worlds: An introduction (Cécile Michel and Karine Chemla) -- Chapter 2. A Comparative Study of Prices and Wages in Royal Inscriptions, Administrative Texts and Mathematical Texts in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa (Cécile Michel, with contributions by Robert Middeke-Conlin and Christine Proust) -- Chapter 3. Computation in the Arthaśāstra (Mark McClish) -- Chapter 4. Official Salaries and State Taxes as Seen in Qin-Han Manuscripts, with a Focus on Mathematical Texts (Peng Hao) -- Chapter 5. Insights into the Administration of Ancient Irrigation Systems in Third Millennium BCE Mesopotamia (Stephanie Rost) -- Chapter 6. Mathematical Computations in the Management of Public Construction Work in Mesopotamia (End of the Third and Beginning of the Second Millennium BCE) (Martin Sauvage) -- Chapter 7. The use of volume in the measurement of grain in early imperial China (Karine Chemla and Ma Biao) -- Chapter 8. The Measurement of Fields During the Pre-Sargonic Period (Camille Lecompte) -- Chapter 9. Early-Dynastic Tables from Southern Mesopotamia, or the Multiple Facets of the Quantification of Surfaces (Christine Proust) -- Chapter 10. Computation Practices of the Assyrian Merchants during the Nineteenth Century BCE (Cécile Michel) -- Chapter 11. Connecting a Disconnect. Can Evidence for a Scribal Education be Found in a Professional Setting During the Old Babylonian Period? (Robert Middeke-Conlin) -- Chapter 12. Loans and Interest in Sanskrit Legal and Mathematical Texts (Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma and Takanori Kusuba) -- Chapter 13. Computational Practices Around Coins and Coinage: John of Murs’ Quadripartitum Numerorum and French Money Changers’ Books (Marc Bompaire and Matthieu Husson). |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910418324503321 |
| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2020] | ||
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Penser par cas / / Jean-Claude Passeron, Jacques Revel
| Penser par cas / / Jean-Claude Passeron, Jacques Revel |
| Autore | Antoine Jean-Philippe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Paris, : Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BoariniSerge
CarroyJacqueline ChemlaKarine ImbertClaude JonsenAlbert R LivetPierre PasseronJean-Claude RevelJacques ThomasYan ToulminStephen ZimmermannFrancis |
| Soggetto topico |
Cas, Méthode des
Sciences sociales - Méthodologie Casuistique |
| Soggetto non controllato | Casuistry |
| ISBN | 2-7132-3110-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910416500703321 |
Antoine Jean-Philippe
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| Paris, : Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2019 | ||
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The Richness of the History of Mathematics : A Tribute to Jeremy Gray / / edited by Karine Chemla [and four others]
| The Richness of the History of Mathematics : A Tribute to Jeremy Gray / / edited by Karine Chemla [and four others] |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XX, 705 p. 1 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 510.1 |
| Collana | Archimedes Series |
| Soggetto topico | Mathematics - Philosophy |
| ISBN | 3-031-40855-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part I: Practicing the History of Mathematic -- Chapter 1. A problem-oriented multiple perspective way into history of mathematics – what, why and how illustrated by practice -- Chapter 2. Mathematics, history of mathematics and Poncelet: the context of the Ecole Polytechnique -- Chapter 3. Advice to a young mathematician wishing to enter the history of mathematics -- Chapter 4. Why historical research needs mathematicians now more than ever -- Chapter 5. Further thoughts on anachronism: A presentist reading of Newton’s Principia -- Part II: Practices of Mathematics -- Chapter 6. On Felix Klein’s Early Geometrical Works, 1869–1872 -- Chapter 7. Poincar´e and arithmetic revisited -- Chapter 8. Simplifying a proof of transcendence for letter exchange between Adolf Hurwitz, David Hilbert and Paul Gordan -- Chapter 9. Current and classical notions of function in real analysis -- Chapter 10. ‘No mother has ever produced an intuitive mathematician’: the question of mathematical heritability at the end of the nineteenth century) -- Chapter 11. Learning from the masters (and some of their pupils) -- Part III: Mathematics and Natural Sciences -- Chapter 12. Mathematical practice in Chinese mathematical astronomy -- Chapter 13. On “Space”and “Geometry” in the 19th century -- Chapter 14. Gauging Potentials: Maxwell, Lorenz, Lorentz and others on linking the electric-scalar and vector potentials -- Chapter 15. Ronald Ross and Hilda Hudson: a collaboration on the mathematical theory of epidemics -- Part IV: Modernism -- Chapter 16. How Useful is the term ‘modernism’ for understanding the history of early twentieth-century mathematics? -- Chapter 17. What is the right way to be modern? Examples from integration theory in the 20th century -- Chapter 18. On set theories and modernism -- Chapter 19. Mathematical modernism, goal or problem? The opposing views of Felix Hausdorff and Hermann Wey -- Part V: Mathematicians and Philosophy -- Chapter 20. The direction-theory of parallels – Geometry and philosophy in the age of Kant -- Chapter 21. The geometer’s gaze: On H. G. Zeuthen’s holistic epistemology of mathematics -- Chapter 22. Variations on Enriques’ “scientific philosophy” -- Part VI: Philosophical Issues -- Chapter 23. Who’s afraid of mathematical platonism? – On the pre-history of mathematical platonism -- Chapter 24. History of mathematics illuminates philosophy of mathematics: Riemann, Weierstrass and mathematical understanding -- Chapter 25. What we talk about when we talk about mathematics -- Part VII: The Making of a Historian of Mathematics -- Chapter 26. History is a foreign country: a journey through the history of mathematics -- Chapter 27. Reflections -- Appendices. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910766890503321 |
| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, , [2023] | ||
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Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Karine Chemla, Jacques Virbel
| Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Karine Chemla, Jacques Virbel |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (435 p.) |
| Disciplina | 401.41 |
| Collana | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology |
| Soggetto topico |
History
Language and languages—Philosophy Culture—Study and teaching History of Science Philosophy of Language Regional and Cultural Studies |
| ISBN | 3-319-16444-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Prologue: Textual acts and the history of science; Karine Chemla & Jacques Virbel -- Part I. Speech acts and textual acts -- Chapter 2. Speech act theory and instructional texts; Jacques Virbel -- Chapter 3. The issue of textual genres in the medical literature produced in late imperial China; Florence Bretelle-Establet -- Chapter 4. Zoological nomenclature and speech act theory; Yves Cambefort -- Chapter 5. Ordering operations in square root extractions. Analyzing some early medieval Sanskrit mathematical texts with the help of speech act theory; Agathe Keller -- Part II. Enumerations as textual acts -- Chapter 6. The description of enumerations; Jacques Virbel -- Chapter 7. The enumeration structure of 爾雅 Ěryǎ's "Semantic Lists"; Michel Teboul -- Chapter 8. A tree-structured list in a mathematical series text from Mesopotamia; Christine Proust -- Chapter 9. Describing texts for algorithms: how they prescribe operations and integrate cases. Reflections based on ancient Chinese mathematical sources; Karine Chemla -- Chapter 10. A work on the degree of generality revealed in the organization of lists: Poincaré's classification of singular points of differential equations; Anne Robadey. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484250103321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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