Numbers
A Cultural History
Seiten
2022
ABC-CLIO (Verlag)
978-1-4408-6933-4 (ISBN)
ABC-CLIO (Verlag)
978-1-4408-6933-4 (ISBN)
Numbers: A Cultural History provides students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics and its relationship to world cultures over 4,500 years of human history.
Mathematics is often referred to as a "universal language," and that is a fitting description. Many cultures have contributed to mathematics in fascinating ways, but despite its "universal" character, mathematics is also a human endeavor. It has played pivotal roles in societies at particular times; and it has influenced, and been influenced by, a wide range of ideas and institutions, from commerce to philosophy. Ancient Egyptian views of mathematics, for example, are tied closely to engineering and agriculture. Some European Renaissance views, on the other hand, relate the study of number to that of the natural world.
Numbers, A Cultural History seeks to place the history of mathematics into a broad cultural context. While it treats mathematical material in detail, it also relates that material to other subject matter: science, philosophy, navigation, commerce, religion, art, and architecture. It examines how mathematical thinking grows in specific cultural settings and how it has shaped those settings in turn. It also explores the movement of ideas between cultures and the evolution of modern mathematics and the quantitative, data-driven world in which we live.
Mathematics is often referred to as a "universal language," and that is a fitting description. Many cultures have contributed to mathematics in fascinating ways, but despite its "universal" character, mathematics is also a human endeavor. It has played pivotal roles in societies at particular times; and it has influenced, and been influenced by, a wide range of ideas and institutions, from commerce to philosophy. Ancient Egyptian views of mathematics, for example, are tied closely to engineering and agriculture. Some European Renaissance views, on the other hand, relate the study of number to that of the natural world.
Numbers, A Cultural History seeks to place the history of mathematics into a broad cultural context. While it treats mathematical material in detail, it also relates that material to other subject matter: science, philosophy, navigation, commerce, religion, art, and architecture. It examines how mathematical thinking grows in specific cultural settings and how it has shaped those settings in turn. It also explores the movement of ideas between cultures and the evolution of modern mathematics and the quantitative, data-driven world in which we live.
Robert Kiely, PhD, teaches the history of ideas in the Liberal Arts Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter
Numbers in Ancient Mesopotamia
Chapter
Numbers in Ancient Egypt
Chapter
Numbers in Ancient Greece
Chapter
Numbers in the Hellenistic Mediterranean
Chapter
Numbers in Traditional China
Chapter
Numbers and the Classical Maya
Chapter
Numbers in Ancient and Medieval India
Chapter
Numbers in the Medieval Arabic World
Chapter
Numbers in Medieval Europe
Chapter
Numbers in Early Modern Europe
Chapter
Numbers in 18th- and 19th-Century Europe
Chapter 12
Women and Numbers
Chapter
Numbers in the 20th Century
Appendix: A Brief Look at Navigation
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 27 bw illus |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 624 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4408-6933-2 / 1440869332 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4408-6933-4 / 9781440869334 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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