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A Portrait of Old Babylonian Algebra and Its Kin
Av Jens Hoyrup
E-bok, 2013
2437 kr
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In this examination of the Babylonian cuneiform "algebra" texts, based on a detailed investigation of the terminology and discursive organization of the texts, Jens Høyrup proposes that the traditional interpretation must be rejected. The texts turn out to speak not of pure numbers, but of the …
Narratives on Translation Across Eurasia and Africa
From Babylonia to Colonial India
Av Sonja Brentjes, Jens Hoyrup m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1832 kr
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Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice
Av Jens Hoyrup
E-bok, 2019
877 kr
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This book presents a broad selection of articles mainly published during the last two decades on a variety of topics within the history of mathematics, mostly focusing on particular aspects of mathematical practice. This book is of interest to, and provides methodological inspiration for, …
World of the Abbaco
Abbacus Mathematics Analyzed and Situated Historically Between Fibonacci and Stifel
Av Jens Hoyrup
E-bok, 2024
815 kr
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The abbacus was a thorough and complete system of arithmetical calculations, which saw its dawn in the Indian and Arabic tradition of the Middle Ages, but which was developed in its fully fledged aspects especially in Italy, between Genoa, Milan, Venice and the region of Umbria. In this monograph, …
Explorations and False Trails
The Innovative Techniques That Brought About Modern Algebra
Av Jens Hoyrup
E-bok, 2024
734 kr
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This book provides a unique perspective on the history of European algebra up to the advent of Viète and Descartes. The standard version of this history is written on the basis of a narrow and misleading source basis: the Latin translations of al-Khwārizmī, Fibonacci''s Liber abbaci, Luca …
From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume I
Behind Western Europe
Av Jens Hoyrup
E-bok, 2024
2006 kr
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This book is the first of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in this volume is ancient Mesopotamia, classical Antiquity and the Islamic Middle Ages. Combining general descriptions with extensive excerpts from …
From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume II
When Science Spoke Latin
Av Jens Hoyrup
E-bok, 2024
2006 kr
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This book is the second of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science) and covers the Latin Middle Ages, the Renaissance period, and the 17th century. Combining general descriptions with extensive excerpts from original sources in English …
From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume III
Science Goes Vernacular
Av Jens Hoyrup
E-bok, 2024
1838 kr
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This book is the third of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in this volume is Western Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. Combining general descriptions with extensive excerpts from original sources in …
Mathematics and War
Av Jens Hoyrup, Bernhelm Boo-Bavnbek
E-bok, 2012
1785 kr
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Mathematics has for centuries been stimulated, financed and credited by military purposes. Some mathematical thoughts and mathematical technology have also been vital in war. During World War II mathematical work by the Anti-Hitler coalition was part of an aspiration to serve humanity and not help …
Jacopo da Firenze's Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture
Av Jens Hoyrup
E-bok, 2007
1427 kr
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This book examines a Tractatus algorismi written in 1307 in Montpellier by Jacopo da Firenze. It is one of the earliest surviving &quote;abbacus&quote; treatises and the first to contain a presentation of algebra. This current book includes the text in late medieval Italian with an English …
In Measure, Number, and Weight
Studies in Mathematics and Culture
Av Jens Hoyrup
Häftad, 1994
437 kr
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Jens Hoyrup, recognized as the leading authority in social studies of pre-modern mathematics, here provides a social study of the changing mode of mathematical thought through history. His "anthropology" of mathematics is a unique approach to its history, in which he examines its pursuit and …
Human Sciences
Reappraising the Humanities Through History and Philosophy
Av Jens Hoyrup
Häftad, 2000
437 kr
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Offers historical and philosophical arguments for treating the humanities as sciences.Human Sciences assesses the importance and value of the humanities historically and philosophically, and makes the case for treating them as sciences. Through careful examination of the characteristics they share …