A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts : Manuscripts in the Schùyen Collection Cuneiform Texts I
This new text from Jöran Friberg, the leading expert on Babylonian mathematics, presents 130 previously unpublished mathematical clay tablets from the Norwegian Schùyen collection, and provides a synthesis of the author's most important work. Through a close study of these tablets, Friberg has...
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| Materyal Türü: | Livre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York
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Cham : Springer Nature |
| Edisyon: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Seri Bilgileri: | Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
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L'impression du document génère 543 p. Archives Springer e-books (Licence nationale) Archives Springer e-books (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Consistent classical supergravity theories, Martin Müller, Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1989, vi, 125 p., Lecture notes in physics, 0-387-51427-9 • A remarkable collection of babylonian mathematical texts, manuscripts in the Schùyen collection, Cuneiform Texts, 1, Jöran Friberg, 2007, New York, Springer, 1 vol. (XX-533 p.), Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences, 978-0-387-34543-7 |
| Özet: | This new text from Jöran Friberg, the leading expert on Babylonian mathematics, presents 130 previously unpublished mathematical clay tablets from the Norwegian Schùyen collection, and provides a synthesis of the author's most important work. Through a close study of these tablets, Friberg has made numerous amazing discoveries, including the first known examples of pre-Classical labyrinths and mazes, a new understanding of the famous table text Plimpton 322, and new evidence of Babylonian familiarity with sophisticated mathematical ideas and objects, such as the three-dimensional Pythagorean equation and the icosahedron. In order to make the text accessible to the largest possible audience, the author has included an introductory chapter entitled, "How to get a better understanding of mathematical cuneiform texts." Throughout the text he avoids anachronisms and makes every effort to teach the reader to do the same. The approach in this book is inherently pedagogical, as Friberg illustrates all the steps of the process of interpretation and clearly explains the mathematical ideas, including terminology, metrological systems, and methods of calculation. Drawings and color photos of a large selection of tablets are also included. Particularly beautiful hand copies of the most complicated texts were made by Farouk Al-Rawi, professor of Ancient Languages and Archaeology at Baghdad University. While the book is reader-friendly, it remains as detailed and exhaustive as possible. It is the most comprehensive treatment of a set of Babylonian mathematical texts ever published and will open up this subject to a new generation of students, mathematicians, and historians of science. Jöran Friberg is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He has recently published the book Unexpected Links Between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics (World Scientific 2005), and its sequel Amazing Traces of a Babylonian Origin in Greek Mathematics (World Scientific 2007) |
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| Diğer Bilgileri: | L'impression du document génère 543 p. Archives Springer e-books (Licence nationale) Archives Springer e-books (Licence nationale) |
| Bibliyografya: | Bibliogr. Index |
| ISBN: | 9780387489773 |
| ISSN: | 2196-8829 |
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