Amazing traces of a Babylonian origin in Greek mathematics [[electronic resource] /] / Jöran Friberg |
Autore | Friberg Jöran |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J. ; ; London, : World Scientific, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
Disciplina | 510.938 |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics, Greek
Mathematics, Babylonian |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-12135-5
9786611121358 981-270-884-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Contents; 1. Elements II and Babylonian Metric Algebra; 2. El. I.47 and the Old Babylonian Diagonal Rule; 3. Lemma El. X.28/29 1a, Plimpton 322, and Babylonian igi-igi.bi Problems; 4. Lemma El. X.32/33 and an Old Babylonian Geometric Progression; 5. Elements X and Babylonian Metric Algebra; 6. Elements IV and Old Babylonian Figures Within Figures; 7. El. VI.30, XIII.1-12, and Regular Polygons in Babylonian Mathematics; 8. El. XIII.13-18 and Regular Polyhedrons in Babylonian Mathematics; 9. Elements XII and Pyramids and Cones in Babylonian Mathematics
10. El. I.43-44, El. VI.24-29, Data 57-59, 84-86, and Metric Algebra11. Euclid's Lost Book On Divisions and Babylonian Striped Figures; 12. Hippocrates' Lunes and Babylonian Figures with Curved Boundaries; 13. Traces of Babylonian Metric Algebra in the Arithmetica of Diophantus; 14. Heron's, Ptolemy's, and Brahmagupta's Area and Diagonal Rules; 15. Theon of Smyrna's Side and Diagonal Numbers and Ascending Infinite Chains of Birectangles; 16. Greek and Babylonian Square Side Approximations; 17. Theodorus of Cyrene's Irrationality Proof and Descending Infinite Chains of Birectangles 18. The Pseudo-Heronic GeometricaAppendix 1. A Chain of Trapezoids with Fixed Diagonals; Appendix 2. A Catalog of Babylonian Geometric Figures; Index of Texts, Propositions, and Lemmas; Index of Subjects; Bibliography; Comparative Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Babylonian Timelines |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450960003321 |
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Hackensack, N.J. ; ; London, : World Scientific, c2007 | ||
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Amazing traces of a Babylonian origin in Greek mathematics [[electronic resource] /] / Jöran Friberg |
Autore | Friberg Jöran |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J. ; ; London, : World Scientific, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
Disciplina | 510.938 |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics, Greek
Mathematics, Babylonian |
ISBN |
1-281-12135-5
9786611121358 981-270-884-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Contents; 1. Elements II and Babylonian Metric Algebra; 2. El. I.47 and the Old Babylonian Diagonal Rule; 3. Lemma El. X.28/29 1a, Plimpton 322, and Babylonian igi-igi.bi Problems; 4. Lemma El. X.32/33 and an Old Babylonian Geometric Progression; 5. Elements X and Babylonian Metric Algebra; 6. Elements IV and Old Babylonian Figures Within Figures; 7. El. VI.30, XIII.1-12, and Regular Polygons in Babylonian Mathematics; 8. El. XIII.13-18 and Regular Polyhedrons in Babylonian Mathematics; 9. Elements XII and Pyramids and Cones in Babylonian Mathematics
10. El. I.43-44, El. VI.24-29, Data 57-59, 84-86, and Metric Algebra11. Euclid's Lost Book On Divisions and Babylonian Striped Figures; 12. Hippocrates' Lunes and Babylonian Figures with Curved Boundaries; 13. Traces of Babylonian Metric Algebra in the Arithmetica of Diophantus; 14. Heron's, Ptolemy's, and Brahmagupta's Area and Diagonal Rules; 15. Theon of Smyrna's Side and Diagonal Numbers and Ascending Infinite Chains of Birectangles; 16. Greek and Babylonian Square Side Approximations; 17. Theodorus of Cyrene's Irrationality Proof and Descending Infinite Chains of Birectangles 18. The Pseudo-Heronic GeometricaAppendix 1. A Chain of Trapezoids with Fixed Diagonals; Appendix 2. A Catalog of Babylonian Geometric Figures; Index of Texts, Propositions, and Lemmas; Index of Subjects; Bibliography; Comparative Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Babylonian Timelines |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784042703321 |
Friberg Jöran
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Hackensack, N.J. ; ; London, : World Scientific, c2007 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Amazing traces of a Babylonian origin in Greek mathematics / / Jöran Friberg |
Autore | Friberg Jöran |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J. ; ; London, : World Scientific, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
Disciplina | 510.938 |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics, Greek
Mathematics, Babylonian |
ISBN |
1-281-12135-5
9786611121358 981-270-884-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Contents; 1. Elements II and Babylonian Metric Algebra; 2. El. I.47 and the Old Babylonian Diagonal Rule; 3. Lemma El. X.28/29 1a, Plimpton 322, and Babylonian igi-igi.bi Problems; 4. Lemma El. X.32/33 and an Old Babylonian Geometric Progression; 5. Elements X and Babylonian Metric Algebra; 6. Elements IV and Old Babylonian Figures Within Figures; 7. El. VI.30, XIII.1-12, and Regular Polygons in Babylonian Mathematics; 8. El. XIII.13-18 and Regular Polyhedrons in Babylonian Mathematics; 9. Elements XII and Pyramids and Cones in Babylonian Mathematics
10. El. I.43-44, El. VI.24-29, Data 57-59, 84-86, and Metric Algebra11. Euclid's Lost Book On Divisions and Babylonian Striped Figures; 12. Hippocrates' Lunes and Babylonian Figures with Curved Boundaries; 13. Traces of Babylonian Metric Algebra in the Arithmetica of Diophantus; 14. Heron's, Ptolemy's, and Brahmagupta's Area and Diagonal Rules; 15. Theon of Smyrna's Side and Diagonal Numbers and Ascending Infinite Chains of Birectangles; 16. Greek and Babylonian Square Side Approximations; 17. Theodorus of Cyrene's Irrationality Proof and Descending Infinite Chains of Birectangles 18. The Pseudo-Heronic GeometricaAppendix 1. A Chain of Trapezoids with Fixed Diagonals; Appendix 2. A Catalog of Babylonian Geometric Figures; Index of Texts, Propositions, and Lemmas; Index of Subjects; Bibliography; Comparative Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Babylonian Timelines |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822952703321 |
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Hackensack, N.J. ; ; London, : World Scientific, c2007 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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New mathematical cuneiform texts / / Jöran Friberg, Farouk N.H. Al-Rawi |
Autore | Friberg Jöran |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (566 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 510.71 |
Collana | Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics, Babylonian
Mathematics, Ancient Mathematics History Semitic languages History of Mathematical Sciences Semitic Languages Popular Science in Mathematics |
ISBN | 3-319-44597-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Late Babylonian Tables of Many-Place Regular Sexagesimal Numbers, from Babylon, Sippar, and Uruk -- Direct and Inverse Factorization Algorithms for Many-Place Regular Sexagesimal Numbers -- Metrological Table Texts from Achaemenid Uruk -- CBS 8539. A Mixed Metrological Table Text from Achaemenid Nippur -- Five Texts from Old Babylonian Mê-Turran (Tell Haddad), Ishchali and Shaduppûm (Tell Harmal) with Rectangular-Linear Problems for Figures of a Given Form -- Five Texts from Old Babylonian Mê-Turran (Tell Haddad), Ishchali and Shaduppûm (Tell Harmal) with Rectangular-Linear Problems for Figures of a Given Form -- A Recombination Text from Old Babylonian Shaduppûm Concerned with Economic Transactions -- Six Fragments of Problem Texts of Group 6, from Late Old Babylonian Sippar -- More Mathematical Cuneiform Texts of Group 6 from Late Old Babylonian Sippar -- Goetze’s Compendium from Old Babylonian Shaduppûm and Two Catalog Texts from Old Babylonian Susa -- Three Old Babylonian Recombination Texts of Mathematical Problems without Solution Procedures, Making up Group 2b -- An Early Dynastic/Early Sargonic Metro-Mathematical Recombination Text from Umma with Commercial Exercises -- An Ur III Table of Reciprocals without Place Value Numbers -- Fragments of Three Tablets from Ur III Nippur with Drawings of Labyrinths. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910164982803321 |
Friberg Jöran
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Cham : , : Springer, , [2016] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Unexpected links between Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics [[electronic resource] /] / Jöran Friberg |
Autore | Friberg Jöran |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
Disciplina | 510.932 |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics, Ancient
Mathematics, Babylonian Mathematics, Egyptian |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-88128-7
9786611881283 981-270-112-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Two Curious Mathematical Cuneiform Texts from Old Babylonian Mari; Chapter 2 Hieratic Mathematical Papyri and Cuneiform Mathematical Texts; Chapter 3 Demotic Mathematical Papyri and Cuneiform Mathematical Texts; Chapter 4 Greek-Egyptian Mathematical Documents and Cuneiform Mathematical Texts; New Thoughts About the History of Ancient Mathematics; Index of Texts; Index of Subjects; Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450685603321 |
Friberg Jöran
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Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2005 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Unexpected links between Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics [[electronic resource] /] / Jöran Friberg |
Autore | Friberg Jöran |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
Disciplina | 510.932 |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics, Ancient
Mathematics, Babylonian Mathematics, Egyptian |
ISBN |
1-281-88128-7
9786611881283 981-270-112-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Two Curious Mathematical Cuneiform Texts from Old Babylonian Mari; Chapter 2 Hieratic Mathematical Papyri and Cuneiform Mathematical Texts; Chapter 3 Demotic Mathematical Papyri and Cuneiform Mathematical Texts; Chapter 4 Greek-Egyptian Mathematical Documents and Cuneiform Mathematical Texts; New Thoughts About the History of Ancient Mathematics; Index of Texts; Index of Subjects; Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783924703321 |
Friberg Jöran
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Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2005 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Unexpected links between Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics / / Jöran Friberg |
Autore | Friberg Jöran |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
Disciplina | 510.932 |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics, Ancient
Mathematics, Babylonian Mathematics, Egyptian |
ISBN |
1-281-88128-7
9786611881283 981-270-112-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Two Curious Mathematical Cuneiform Texts from Old Babylonian Mari; Chapter 2 Hieratic Mathematical Papyri and Cuneiform Mathematical Texts; Chapter 3 Demotic Mathematical Papyri and Cuneiform Mathematical Texts; Chapter 4 Greek-Egyptian Mathematical Documents and Cuneiform Mathematical Texts; New Thoughts About the History of Ancient Mathematics; Index of Texts; Index of Subjects; Bibliography |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812482103321 |
Friberg Jöran
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Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2005 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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