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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. . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910639881703321 |
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A Mathematician's Journeys : Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science / / edited by Alexander Jones, Christine Proust, John M. Steele
| A Mathematician's Journeys : Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science / / edited by Alexander Jones, Christine Proust, John M. Steele |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (349 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509 |
| Collana | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology |
| Soggetto topico |
History
Mathematics Physics History, general History of Mathematical Sciences History of Science History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics |
| ISBN | 3-319-25865-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | From Graz to Göttingen: Neugebauer's Early Intellectual Journey.- "Not in Possession of Any Weltanschauung": Otto Neugebauer's Flight From Nazi Germany and his Search for Objectivity in Mathematics, in Reviewing, and in History -- Otto Neugebauer's Visits to Copenhagen and his Connection to Denmark -- Otto Neugebauer and Ancient Egypt -- As the Outsider Walked in: The Historiography of Mesopotamian Mathematics until Neugebauer -- François Thureau-Dangin and Cuneiform Mathematics -- Mathematical and Philological Insights on Cuneiform Texts: Neugebauer's Correspondence with Fellow Assyriologists -- After Neugebauer: Recent Developments in Mesopotamian Mathematics. - Babylonian Astronomy 1880 – 1950: The Players and the Field -- Neugebauer's Astronomical Cuneiform Texts and its Reception -- Translating Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Neugebauer and Beyond. . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910254790503321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 | ||
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Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk / / edited by Christine Proust, John Steele
| Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk / / edited by Christine Proust, John Steele |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 pages) |
| Disciplina |
001.2
001.2093 |
| Collana | Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
History History, Ancient Middle East—History Archaeology History of Mathematical Sciences History of Science Ancient History History of the Middle East |
| ISBN | 3-030-04176-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Scholars, Scholarly Archives and the Practice of Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk (Christine Proust and John Steele) -- Chapter 2. Cultural Imports and Local Products in the Commentaries from Uruk. The case of the Gimil-Sîn Family (Uri Gabbay and Enrique Jiménez) -- Chapter 3. A Mathematical Collection Found in the “House of the āšipus”. The Art of Metrology in Achaemenid Uruk (Christine Proust) -- Chapter 4. Astronomical Activity in the ‘House of the āšipus’ in Uruk (John Steele) -- Chapter 5. Astrological Texts from Late Babylonian Uruk (Hermann Hunger) -- Chapter 6. Scholarly Mathematics in the Rēš Temple (Mathieu Ossendrijver) -- Chapter 7. ‘Star Anu, Lord of Heaven’: The Influence of the Celestial Sciences on Temple Rituals in Hellenistic Uruk and Babylon (Julia Krul) -- Chapter 8. Interactions Between Greek and Babylonian Thought in Seleucid Uruk (Paul-Alain Beaulieu) -- Chapter 9. Uruk and the Greco-Roman World (Alexander Jones). |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484697203321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 | ||
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Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives / / edited by Alain Bernard, Christine Proust
| Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives / / edited by Alain Bernard, Christine Proust |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509 |
| Collana | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
History
Epistemology Philosophy and social sciences Philosophy and science History of Science Philosophy of Education Philosophy of Science |
| ISBN | 94-007-5122-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contributors -- General Introduction; Alain Bernard and Christine Proust -- Part I: Holistic Approach -- The teaching context and reading from the 16th to the 19th centuries: The role of the memorization of texts in learning; Anne-Marie Chartier -- Teaching and learning medicine and exorcism at Uruk during the Hellenistic period; Philippe Clancier -- Part II: Critical Approach -- Does a master always write for his students? Some evidence from Old Babylonian scribal schools; Christine Proust -- In what sense did Theon’s commentary on the Almagest have a didactic purpose?; Alain Bernard -- Part III: Comparative Approach -- Relationships between French “practical arithmetics” and teaching?; Stéphane Lamassé -- On the transmission of mathematical knowledge in versified form in China; Andrea Bréard -- Mathematical Progress or Mathematical Teaching? Bilingualism and Printing In European Renaissance Mathematics; Giovanna C. Cifoletti -- Part IV: Zooming Approach.- Leonardo of Pisa and the Liber Abaci. Biographical elements and the project of the work; Eva Caianiello -- Didactical Dimensions of Mathematical Problems: Weighted Distribution in a Vietnamese Mathematical Treatise; Alexei Volkov -- Learning and Teaching Medicine in Late Imperial China; Florence Bretelle-Establet -- Post Face -- On the sources of the historian of science from the perspective of a history of education; Karine Chemla -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483503603321 |
| Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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