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Amazing traces of a Babylonian origin in Greek mathematics /

The sequel to "Unexpected Links Between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics" (World Scientific, 2005), this book is based on the author's intensive and ground breaking studies of the long history of Mesopotamian mathematics, from the late 4th to the late 1st millennium BC. It is argue...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Friberg, Jöran
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hackensack, N.J. ; London : World Scientific, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Elements II and Babylonian metric algebra
  • El. I.47 and the old Babylonian diagonal rule
  • Lemma El. X.28/29 1a, Plimpton 322, and Babylonian igi-igi.bi problems
  • Lemma El. X.32/33 and an old Babylonian geometric progression
  • Elements X and Babylonian metric algebra
  • Elements IV and old Babylonian figures within figures
  • El. VI. 30, XIII. 1-12, and regular polygons in Babylonian mathematics
  • El. XIII. 13-18 and regular polyhedrons in Babylonian mathematics
  • Elements XII and pyramids and cones in Babylonian mathematics
  • El. I.43-44, El. VI. 24-29, Data 57-59, 84-86, and metric algebra
  • Euclid's lost book on divisions and Babylonian striped figures
  • Hippocrates' lunes and Babylonian figures with curved boundaries
  • Traces of Babylonian metric algebra in the Arithmetica of Diophantus
  • Heron's, Ptolemy's, and Brahmagupta's area and diagonal rules
  • Theon of Smyrna's side and diagonal numbers and ascending infinite chains of birectangles
  • Greek and Babylonian square side approximations
  • Theodorus of Cyrene's irrationality proof and descending infinite chains of birectangles
  • The pseudo-Heronic geometrica.