Télécharger le livre :  Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World
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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...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-01-01
Collection : Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter
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163,35
Télécharger le livre :  Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk
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This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia. It offers an exercise in micro-history that provides a case study for attempting to understand the relationship between scholars and scholarship during this time...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-01-08
Collection : Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter
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132,72
Télécharger le livre :  A Mathematician's Journeys
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This book explores facets of Otto Neugebauer's career, his impact on the history and practice of mathematics, and the ways in which his legacy has been preserved or transformed in recent decades, looking ahead to the directions in which the study of the history of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-02-03
Collection : Archimedes
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112,30
Télécharger le livre :  Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives
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This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression “teaching and learning contexts” refers. It  reflects on the extent to which studying such environments helps us to better understand ancient or modern...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-11-26
Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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91,88