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The transformation of mathematics in the early Mediterranean world : From problems to equations /
"The transformation of mathematics from ancient Greece to the medieval Arab-speaking world is here approached by focusing on a single problem proposed by Archimedes and the many solutions offered. In this trajectory Reviel Netz follows the change in the task from solving a geometrical problem t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Cambridge classical studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The transformation of mathematics from ancient Greece to the medieval Arab-speaking world is here approached by focusing on a single problem proposed by Archimedes and the many solutions offered. In this trajectory Reviel Netz follows the change in the task from solving a geometrical problem to its expression as an equation, still formulated geometrically, and then on to an algebraic problem, now handled by procedures that are more like rules of manipulation From a practice of mathematics based on the localized solution (and grounded in the polemical practices of early Greek science) we see a transition to a practice of mathematics based on the systematic approach (and grounded in the deuteronomic practices of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages). With three chapters ranging chronologically from Hellenistic mathematics, through Late Antiquity, to the medieval world, Reviel Netz offers a radically new interpretation of the historical journey of pre-modern mathematics."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 198 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-195) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511216060 0511216068 9780511720000 0511720009 9780511212468 0511212461 1139810081 9781139810081 1107148006 9781107148000 0511210698 9780511210693 1107318165 9781107318168 1299398855 9781299398856 0511214278 9780511214271 0511207093 9780511207099 9780521041744 0521041740 |