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A Brief History of Mathematics: A Promenade through the Civilizations of Our World [1 ed.] 3031268407, 9783031268403, 9783031268434, 9783031268410
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Preface
Contents
About the Author
1 The Middle East, or the Beginning
The Origins of Mathematics
The Beginnings of Counting
Number Bases
Arabic Numerals
Shape and Geometry
Civilization on the Nile River
A Peculiar Terrain
The Rhind Papyrus
Egyptian Fractions
Between the Rivers
Babylonia
The Clay Tablets
Plimpton 322
Conclusion
2 The Sages of Ancient Greece
The Birth of Mathematicians
The Greek Arena
The First Proofs
Pythagoras
The Platonic Academy
Zeno's Tortoise
Plato's Academy
Aristotle
The Alexandrian School
Euclid's Elements
Archimedes
Other Mathematicians
Conclusion
3 The Chinese Middle Ages
Prologue
The Pre-Qin Era
Zhoubi Suanjing
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
From Circle Divisions to the Method of Four Unknowns
Liu Hui's π Algorithm
The Sun Zi-Qin Jiushao Theorem
Other Mathematicians
Conclusion
4 India and Arabia
From the Indus River to the Ganges
The Indo-European Past
The Shulba Sutras and Buddhism
The Number Zero and Hindu Numerals
From North India to South India
Aryabhata
Brahmagupta
Mahāvīra
Bhāskara II Hero describe Alexandria
Trigonometric functions