书目名称 | Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World |
副标题 | Numbers, Measurement |
编辑 | Karine Chemla,Agathe Keller,Christine Proust |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/242/241049/241049.mp4 |
概述 | Offers an approach to the diversity of scientific cultures based on case studies dealing with mathematical sources.Links the history of mathematics to the history of ancient worlds.Sheds a new light o |
丛书名称 | Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter |
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描述 | This book sheds light on the variety of mathematical cultures in general. To do so, it concentrates on cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world, mainly in ancient China, South Asia, and the Ancient Near East and offers case studies focused on numbers, quantities, and operations, in particular in relation to mathematics as well as administrative and economic activities. .The various chapters focus on the different ways and contexts of shaping numbers and quantities, and on the procedures applied to them. The book places special emphasis on the processes of emergence of place-value number systems, evidenced in the three geographical areas under study All these features yield essential elements that will enable historians of mathematics to further capture the diversity of computation practices in their contexts, whereas previous historical approaches have tended to emphasize elements that displayed uniformity within “civilizational” blocks. The book includes editions and translations of texts, some of them published here for the first time, maps, and conventions for editions of ancient texts. It thereby offers primary sources and methodological tools for teachin |
出版日期 | Book 2022 |
关键词 | History of Mathematical Cultures; History of Administrative and Economic Practices; History and Philos |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98361-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-98363-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-98361-1Series ISSN 2662-9933 Series E-ISSN 2662-9941 |
issn_series | 2662-9933 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |