TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robson,Eleanor
AU  - Stedall,Jacqueline A.
TI  - The Oxford handbook of the history of mathematics
SN  - 9780199603190
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - History
KW  - Matemáticas
KW  - Historia
N1  - Originally published: 2009; Includes bibliographical references and index; INTRODUCTION; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: GLOBAL; 1.1 What was mathematics in the ancient world? Greek and Chinese perspectives; 1.2 Mathematics and authority: a case study in New and Old World accounting; 1.3 Heavenly learning, statecraft, and scholarship: the Jesuits and their mathematics in China; 1.4 The internationalization of mathematics in a world of nations, 1800-1960; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: REGIONAL; 2.1 The two cultures of mathematics in ancient Greece; 2.2 Tracing mathematical networks in seventeenth-century England; 2.3 Mathematics and mathematics education in traditional Vietnam; 2.4 A Balkan trilogy: mathematics in the Balkans before the First World War; GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES: LOCAL; 3.1 Mathematics education in an Old Babylonian scribal school; 3.2 The archaeology of mathematics in an ancient Greek city; 3.3 Engineering the Neapolitan state; 3.4 Observatory mathematics in the nineteenth century; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: LIVES; 4.1 Patronage of the mathematical sciences in Islamic societies; 4.2 John Aubrey and the 'Lives of our English mathematical writers'; 4.3 Introducing mathematics, building an empire: Russia under Peter I; 4.4 Human computers in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: PRACTICES; 5.1 Mixing, building, and feeding: mathematics and technology in ancient Egypt; 5.2 Siyaq: numerical notation in the Persianate world; 5.3 Learning arithmetic: textbooks and their users in England 1500-1900; 5.4 Algorithms and automation: mathematics and weaving; PEOPLE AND PRACTICES: PRESENTATION; 6.1 The cognitive and cultural foundations of numbers; 6.2 Sanskrit mathematical verse; 6.3 Antiquity, nobility, and utility: picturing the Early Modern mathematical sciences; 6.4 Writing the ultimate mathematical textbook: Nicolas Bourbaki's Elements de mathematique; INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS: INTELLECTUAL; 7.1 People and numbers in early imperial China; 7.2 Mathematics in fourteenth-century theology; 7.3 Mathematics, music, and experiment in late seventeenth-century England; 7.4 Modernism in mathematics; INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS: MATHEMATICAL; 8.1 The transmission of the Elements to the Latin West: three case studies; 8.2 'Gigantic implements of war': images of Newton as a mathematician; 8.3 From cascades to calculus: Rolle's Theorem; 8.4 Abstraction and application: new contexts, new interpretations in twentieth-century mathematics; INTERACTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS: HISTORICAL; 9.1 Traditions and myths in the historiography of Egyptian mathematics; 9.2 Reading ancient Greek mathematics; 9.3 Number, shape, and the nature of space: thinking through Islamic art; 9.4 The historiography and history of mathematics in the Third Reich; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
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