The Babylonian Theorem: The Mathematical Journey to Pythagoras and Euclid - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781591027737ISBN-10:159102773XUPC:9781591027737Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, GeometryBook Topic:AlgebraicSize:9.25 x 6.25 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCVT627GYR
A physicist explores the history of mathematics among the Babylonians and Egyptians, showing how their scribes in the era from 2000 to 1600 BCE used visualizations of plane geometric figures to invent geometric algebra, even solving problems that we now do by quadratic algebra. Rudman traces the evolution of mathematics from the metric geometric algebra of Babylon and Egypt-which used numeric...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781591027737ISBN-10:159102773XUPC:9781591027737Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, GeometryBook Topic:AlgebraicSize:9.25 x 6.25 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCVT627GYR
Peter S. Rudman (Tel Aviv, Israel), a retired professor of physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, is the author of How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years, which was selected in 2008 as an Outstanding Academic Text by the American Library Association.
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