Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice (eBook)

Jens Høyrup (Autor)

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2019 | 1st ed. 2019
XIII, 969 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-19258-7 (ISBN)

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This book presents a broad selection of articles mainly published during the last two decades on a variety of topics within the history of mathematics, mostly focusing on particular aspects of mathematical practice. This book is of interest to, and provides methodological inspiration for, historians of science or mathematics and students of these disciplines.

Jens Høyrup (*1943): educated as a physicist at Copenhagen University. From 1973 he taught first in the domain of social, then human sciences, at Roskilde University, Denmark, until he retired in 2005. Much of his research has dealt with the conceptual, cultural and social history of pre-Modern mathematics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2019
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 969 p. 359 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Abbacus School Mathematics • historiography of mathematics • History of Algebra • mathematical practice • Mesopotamian mathematics • Practictioners' Mathematics
• ISBN-10: 3-030-19258-X / 303019258X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-19258-7 / 9783030192587