In Measure, Number, and Weight: Studies in Mathematics and Culture
In Measure, Number, and Weight: Studies in Mathematics and Culture by Jens Hoyrup
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0791418227 | 454 pages | PDF | 16,2 MB
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0791418227 | 454 pages | PDF | 16,2 MB
CONTENTS
1. Varieties of Mathematical Discourse in Pre-Modern Sociocultural Contexts: Mesopotamia, Greece, and the Latin Middle Ages
2. Subscientific Mathematics: Observations on a Pre-Modern Phenomenon
3. Mathematics and Early State Formation, or The Janus Face of Early Mesopotamian Mathematics: Bureaucratic Tool and Expression of Scribal Professional Autonomy
4. The Formation of "Islamic Mathematics": Sources and Conditions
5. Philosophy: Accident, Epiphenomenon, or Contributory Cause of the Changing Trends of Mathematics-A Sketch of the Development from the Twelfth Through the Sixteenth Century
6. Jordanus de Nemore: A Case Study on Thirteenth-Century Mathematical Innovation and Failure in Cultural Context
7. Platonism or Archimedism: On the Ideology and Self-Imposed Model of Renaissance Mathematicians (1400 to 1600)
8. On Mathematics and War: An Essay on the Implications, Past and Present, of the Military Involvement of the Mathematical Sciences for Their Development and Potentials. Written in collaboration with Bernheim Booss-Bavnbek
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