Algebra in Keilschrift : Einführung in eine altbabylonische geometrische Technik |
Autore | Høyrup Jens |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, : Edition Open Access, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (172 p.) |
Collana | Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge: Textbooks |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Algebra |
Soggetto non controllato |
MPRL
MPIWG History of Science Open Access Edition Open Access Algebra Altbabylonische Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik Mathematics History of Mathematics |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
Altri titoli varianti | Algebra in Keilschrift |
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Explorations and False Trails : The Innovative Techniques That Brought About Modern Algebra / / by Jens Høyrup |
Autore | Høyrup Jens |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (150 pages) |
Disciplina | 509 |
Collana | SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology |
Soggetto topico |
Science - History
Mathematics History History of Science History of Mathematical Sciences |
ISBN |
9783031481581
9783031481574 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Geometric proofs -- Chapter 2. Powers of the unknown -- Chapter 3. Abbreviations, glyphs, symbols and symbolic calculation -- Chapter 4. Embedding and parenthesis function -- Chapter 5. Several unknowns -- Chapter 6. The transition to incipient modern algebra -- Bibliography -- Index. . |
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From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume I : Behind Western Europe / / by Jens Høyrup |
Autore | Høyrup Jens |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 pages) |
Disciplina | 509.3 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - History
History Philosophy - History Culture - Study and teaching History of Science History of Philosophy Cultural Studies |
ISBN | 9783031515064 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Dedication -- Chapter 1. Introductory Observations -- Chapter 2. “Before Philosophy”: Ancient Mesopotamia -- Chapter 3. Classical Antiquity -- Chapter 4. The Islamic Middle Ages -- Index. |
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From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume II : When Science Spoke Latin / / by Jens Høyrup |
Autore | Høyrup Jens |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (434 pages) |
Disciplina | 509 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - History
History Philosophy - History Culture - Study and teaching History of Science History of Philosophy Cultural Studies |
ISBN | 9783031515101 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Dedication -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Volume II -- Chapter 2. The Latin Middle Ages -- Chapter 3. 1400 To 1600 – Renaissance and Otherwise -- Chapter 4. The 17th Century: Time of Reaping, Time of Sowing -- Index. |
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From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume III : Science Goes Vernacular / / by Jens Høyrup |
Autore | Høyrup Jens |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 pages) |
Disciplina | 509.224 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - History
History Philosophy - History Culture - Study and teaching History of Science History of Philosophy Cultural Studies |
ISBN | 9783031515149 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Dedication -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Volume III -- Chapter 2. The 18th Century and the Enlightenment -- Chapter 3. 1400 To 1600 – The 19th Century -- Chapter 4. A Brief Postlude -- Index. |
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Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice / / by Jens Høyrup |
Autore | Høyrup Jens |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 969 p. 359 illus., 4 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 510.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
History Algebra History of Mathematical Sciences |
ISBN | 3-030-19258-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- On Parts of Parts and Ascending Continued Fractions: An Investigation of the Origins and Spread of a Peculiar System -- A Note on Old Babylonian Computational Techniques -- On a Collection of Geometrical Riddles and Their Role in the Shaping of Four to Six "Algebras" -- Mahavira's Geometrical Problems: Traces of Unknown Links between Jaina and Mediterranean Mathematics in the Classical Ages -- Sanskrit-Prakrit Interaction in Elementary Mathematics as Reflected in Arabic and Italian Formulations of the Rule of Three – and Something More on the Rule Elsewhere -- Geometrical Patterns in the Pre-classical Greek Area: Prospecting the Borderland between Decoration, Art, and Structural Inquiry -- Broad Lines – A Forgotten Geometrical Ambiguity -- Concerning the Position of "Heron's Formula" in the Metrica (with a Platonic note) -- Mero, ps-Heron, and Near Eastern Practical Geometry: An Investigation of Metrica, Geometrica, and other Treatises -- Which Kind of Mathematics was Known and Referred to by Those Who Wanted to Integrate Mathemaitcs in «Wisdom» – Neopythagoreans and others? -- The Rare Traces of Constructional Procedures in "Practical Geometries" -- About the Italian Background to Rechenmeister Mathematics -- The "Unknown Heritage" – Trace of a Forgotten Locus of Mathematical Sophistication -- A diluted al-Karaji in Abbacus Mathematics -- "Proportions" in and around the Italian Abbacus Tradition -- Archimedes – Knowledge and Lore from Latin Antiquity to the Outgoing European Renaissance -- Existence, Sustainability, and Counterfactuality: Observations on the Status of Mathematics According to Aristotle, Euclid, and Others -- Conceptual Divergence – Cannons and Taboos – and Critique -- Tertium non datur, or, On Reasoning Styles in Early Mathematics -- Embedding – Multi-purpose Device for Understanding Mathematics and Its Development, or Empty Generalization? -- What is "Geometric Algebra", and what has it been in Historiography? -- State, "Justice", Scribal Culture and Mathematics in Ancient Mesopotamia. Sarton Lecture 2008 -- How to Educate a Kapo: Reflections on the Absence of a Culture of Mathematical Problems in Ur III -- A Hypothetical History of Old Babylonian Mathematics – Places, passages, Stages, Development -- Written Mathematical Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia: Knowledge, ignorance, and reasonable guesses -- Mesopotamian Mathematics, Seen "From the Inside" (by Assyriologists) and "from the outside" (by Historians of Mathematics) -- Fibonacci – Protagonist or Witness? Who Taught Catholic Christian Europe about Mediterranean Commercial Arithmetic? -- What did Abbacus Teachers Aim at When They (Sometimes) Ended up Doing Mathematics? -- Hesitating Progress – the Slow Development toward Algebraic Sybolization in Abbacus- and Related Manuscripts, c. 1300 To c. 1550 -- Embedding – Another Case of Stumbling Progress -- Baroque Mindset and New Science: A Dialectic of 17th-Century High Culture. Sarton Chair Lecture, Ghent University, 13 November 2008. |
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The World of the Abbaco : Abbacus Mathematics Analyzed and Situated Historically Between Fibonacci and Stifel / / by Jens Høyrup |
Autore | Høyrup Jens |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2024 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (506 pages) |
Disciplina | 509 |
Collana | Frontiers in the History of Science |
Soggetto topico |
Science - History
Mathematics History of Science |
ISBN | 3-031-25164-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Contents -- Introduction- The home of abbacus mathematics: the abbacus school -- An example: Jacopo da Firenze's Tractatus algorismi, the short version -- Fibonacci and the Fibonacci story- The real story in select detail -- Abbacus goes into print and abroad318 -- A double conclusion -- Sigla -- Bibliography- Name, subject and source index. |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2024 | ||
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