The Oxford handbook of the history of mathematics

This Handbook explores the history of mathematics, addressing what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. Thirty-six self-contained chapters, each written by a specialist, provide a fascinating overview of 5000 years of mathematics and its key cultures for academics in mathematics, historians of science, and general historians. INDICE: IntroductionEleanor Robson and Jacqueline Stedall: ; Geographies and Cultures: Global; 1.1: G E R Lloyd: What was mathematics in the ancient world? Greek and Chinese perspectives; 1.2: Gary Urton: Mathematics and authority: a case study in New and Old World accounting; 1.3: Catherine Jami: Heavenly learning, statecraft, and scholarship: the Jesuits and their mathematics in China; 1.4: Karen Parshall: The internationalization of mathematics in a world of nations, 1800-1960; Geographies and Cultures: Regional; 2.1: Markus Asper: The two cultures of mathematics in ancient Greece; 2.2: Jacqueline Stedall: Tracing mathematical networks in seventeenth-century England; 2.3: Alexei Volkov:Mathematics and mathematics education in traditional Vietnam; 2.4: Snezana Lawrence: A Balkan trilogy: mathematics in the Balkans before the First World War; Geographies and Cultures: Local; 3.1: Eleanor Robson: Mathematics educationin an Old Babylonian scribal school; 3.2: David Gilman Romano: The archaeology of mathematics in an ancient Greek city; 3.3: Massimo Mazzotti: Engineering the Neapolitan state; 3.4: David Aubin: Observatory mathematics in the nineteenth century; People and Practices: Lives; 4.1: Sonja Brentjes: Patronage of the mathematical sciences in Islamic societies; 4.2: Kate Bennett: John Aubrey and the 'Lives of our English mathematical writers'; 4.3: Irina and Dmitri Gouzévitch: Introducing mathematics, building an empire: Russia under Peter I; 4.4: Mary Croarken: Human computers in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain;People and Practices: Practices; 5.1: Corinna Rossi: Mixing, building, and feeding: mathematics and technology in ancient Egypt; 5.2: Brian Spooner and William Hanaway: Siyaq: numerical notation in the Persianate world; 5.3: John Denniss: Learning arithmetic: textbooks and their users in England 1500-1900; 5.4: Carrie Brezine: Algorithms and automation: mathematics and weaving; People and Practices: Presentation; 6.1: Stephen Chrisomalis: The cognitive and cultural foundations of numbers; 6.2: Kim Plofker: Sanskrit mathematical verse; 6.3:Volker Remmert: Antiquity, nobility, and utility: picturing the Early Modern mathematical sciences; 6.4: Leo Corry: Writing the ultimate mathematical textbook: Nicolas Bourbaki's Eléments de mathématique; Interactions and Interpretations: Intellectual; 7.1: Christopher Cullen: People and numbers in early imperial China; 7.2: Mark Thakkar: Mathematics in fourteenth-century theology; 7.3:Benjamin Wardhaugh: Mathematics, music, and experiment in late seventeenth-century England; 7.4: Jeremy Gray: Modernism in mathematics; Interactions and Interpretations: Mathematical; 8.1: Sabine Rommeveaux: The transmission of the Elements to the Latin West: three case studies; 8.2: Niccolo Guicciardini: 'Gigantic implements of war': images of Newton as a mathematician; 8.3: June Barrow-Green: From cascades to calculus: Rolle's Theorem; 8.4: Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen:Abstraction and application: new con

• ISBN: 978-0-19-960319-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 928
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés