The Mathematics Of The Heavens And The Earth
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The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth
Author | : Glen Van Brummelen |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2021-08-10 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781400833313 |
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The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth is the first major history in English of the origins and early development of trigonometry. Glen Van Brummelen identifies the earliest known trigonometric precursors in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Greece, and he examines the revolutionary discoveries of Hipparchus, the Greek astronomer believed to have been the first to make systematic use of trigonometry in the second century BC while studying the motions of the stars. The book traces trigonometry's development into a full-fledged mathematical discipline in India and Islam; explores its applications to such areas as geography and seafaring navigation in the European Middle Ages and Renaissance; and shows how trigonometry retained its ancient roots at the same time that it became an important part of the foundation of modern mathematics. The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth looks at the controversies as well, including disputes over whether Hipparchus was indeed the father of trigonometry, whether Indian trigonometry is original or derived from the Greeks, and the extent to which Western science is indebted to Islamic trigonometry and astronomy. The book also features extended excerpts of translations of original texts, and detailed yet accessible explanations of the mathematics in them. No other book on trigonometry offers the historical breadth, analytical depth, and coverage of non-Western mathematics that readers will find in The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth.
Hesiod s Anvil
Author | : Andrew J. Simoson |
Publsiher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2007-05-01 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781470457259 |
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This book is about models of motion as enunciated by poets, philosophers, storytellers, and early scientists. By using popular literature and philosophy to bring the mechanics of motion alive, blending with equal voice both romantic whimsy and derived equations.
Mathematics and the Physical World
Author | : Morris Kline |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780486136318 |
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Stimulating account of development of mathematics from arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry, to calculus, differential equations, and non-Euclidean geometries. Also describes how math is used in optics, astronomy, and other phenomena.
The World of Mathematics
Author | : James Roy Newman |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0486411532 |
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Presents 33 essays on such topics as statistics and the design of experiments, group theory, the mathematics of infinity, the mathematical way of thinking, the unreasonableness of mathematics, and mathematics as an art. A reprint of volume 3 of the four-volume edition originally published by Simon and Schuster in 1956. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics
Author | : Eric Gutstein |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012-09-10 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781136284656 |
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Mathematics education in the United States can reproduce social inequalities whether schools use either "basic-skills" curricula to prepare mainly low-income students of color for low-skilled service jobs or "standards-based" curricula to ready students for knowledge-intensive positions. And working for fundamental social change and rectifying injustice are rarely included in any mathematics curriculum. Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics argues that mathematics education should prepare students to investigate and critique injustice, and to challenge, in words and actions, oppressive structures and acts. Based on teacher-research, the book provides a theoretical framework and practical examples for how mathematics educators can connect schooling to a larger sociopolitical context and concretely teach mathematics for social justice.
Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes The Strange Math Behind the Modern World
Author | : Richard Elwes |
Publsiher | : Quercus |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781623655181 |
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Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes explains how mathematics determines every aspect of our lives-รข??right down to the foundations of our bodies. Math is everywhere, whether we are aware of it or not. What can we learn from fish in a pond? How do social networks connect the world? How can artificial intelligences learn? How can math make you a better liar? Exploring math through thirty-five of its odd and often unexpected applications, this book provides an insight into the 'hidden wiring' that governs our world.
Science and Technology in World History
Author | : James Edward McClellan,Harold Dorn |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2006-04-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801883601 |
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Science and Civilisation in China Volume 3 Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth
Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1146 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521058015 |
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After two volumes mainly introductory, Dr Needham now embarks upon his systematic study of the development of the natural sciences in China. The Sciences of the Earth follow: geography and cartography, geology, seismology and mineralogy. Dr Needham distinguishes parallel traditions of scientific cartography and religious cosmography in East and West, discussing orbocentric wheel-maps, the origins of the rectangular grid system, sailing charts and relief maps, Chinese survey methods, and the impact of Renaissance cartography on the East. Finally-and here Dr Needham's work has no Western predecessors-there are full accounts of the Chinese contribution to geology and mineralogy.