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9780199898220 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 20, 2013, cover price $78.00
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9780190465704 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 2016, cover price $35.00
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9781119104971, titled "An Introduction to the Early Development of Mathematics: A Gentle Introduction to the Early Development of Mathematics" | Pap/psc edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, February 15, 2016), cover price $69.95
Product Description: Computation is revolutionizing our world, even the inner world of the "pure" mathematician. Mathematical methods - especially the notion of proof - that have their roots in classical antiquity have seen a radical transformation since the 1970s, as successive advances have challenged the priority of reason over computation...read more
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9780521118019 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 31, 2015, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Computation is revolutionizing our world, even the inner world of the "pure" mathematician.
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9780521133777 | Italian edition edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 31, 2015), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Computation is revolutionizing our world, even the inner world of the "pure" mathematician.
Product Description: This radical, profoundly scholarly book explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings. It overturns the view that the first mathematical proofs were in Greek geometry and rested on the logical insights of Aristotle by showing how much of that view is an artefact of nineteenth-century historical scholarship...read more
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9781107012219 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 27, 2012, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: This radical, profoundly scholarly book explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings.
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9781107527539 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 21, 2015, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: This radical, profoundly scholarly book explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings.
Product Description: Who first presented Pascal's triangle? (It was not Pascal.)Who first presented Hamiltonian graphs? (It was not Hamilton.)Who first presented Steiner triple systems? (It was not Steiner.) The history of mathematics is a well-studied and vibrant area of research, with books and scholarly articles published on various aspects of the subject...read more
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9780412105913, titled "Failure Modes and Mechanisms in Electronic Packages" | Kluwer Academic Pub, November 1, 1997, cover price $249.00 | also contains Failure Modes and Mechanisms in Electronic Packages
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9780198739050 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 26, 2015, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Who first presented Pascal's triangle?
The great mathematician Archimedes, a Sicilian Greek whose machines defended Syracuse against the Romans during the Second Punic War, was killed by a Roman after the city fell, yet it is largely Roman sources, and Greek texts aimed at Roman audiences, that preserve the stories about him. Archimedes' story, Mary Jaeger argues, thus becomes a locus where writers explore the intersection of Greek and Roman culture, and as such it plays an important role in Roman self-definition. Jaeger uses the biography of Archimedes as a hermeneutic tool, providing insight into the construction of the traditional historical narrative about the Roman conquest of the Greek world and the Greek cultural invasion of Rome. By breaking down the narrative of Archimedes' life and examining how the various anecdotes that comprise it are embedded in their contexts, the book offers fresh readings of passages from both well-known and less-studied authors, including Polybius, Cicero, Livy, Vitruvius, Plutarch, Silius Italicus, Valerius Maximus, Johannes Tzetzes, and Petrarch.
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9780472116300 | Univ of Michigan Pr, April 2, 2008, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: The great mathematician Archimedes, a Sicilian Greek whose machines defended Syracuse against the Romans during the Second Punic War, was killed by a Roman after the city fell, yet it is largely Roman sources, and Greek texts aimed at Roman audiences, that preserve the stories about him.
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9780472035717 | Univ of Michigan Pr, September 11, 2013, cover price $29.95
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9780761365280 | Twenty First Century Books, February 1, 2011, cover price $31.99 | About this edition: Describes the mathematical technology used by ancient societies, covering techniques used for counting, measurements, weights, time, and calculations, including the ancient civilizations of China, Greece, Rome, India, and the Middle East.
Product Description: Mesopotamian mathematics is known from a great number of cuneiform texts, most of them Old Babylonian, some Late Babylonian or pre-Old-Babylonian, and has been intensively studied during the last couple of decades. In contrast to this Egyptian mathematics is known from only a small number of papyrus texts, and the few books and papers that have been written about Egyptian mathematical papyri have mostly reiterated the same old presentations and interpretations of the texts...read more
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9789812563286 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, June 22, 2005, cover price $118.00 | About this edition: Mesopotamian mathematics is known from a great number of cuneiform texts, most of them Old Babylonian, some Late Babylonian or pre-Old-Babylonian, and has been intensively studied during the last couple of decades.
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9780080065250, titled "Menu Terminology" | Pergamon Pr, June 1, 1969, cover price $27.95 | also contains Menu Terminology
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9780080065250 | Pergamon Pr, June 1, 1969, cover price $27.95 | also contains Unexpected Links Between Egyptian And Babylonian Mathematics
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9780486223322 | 2 edition (Dover Pubns, June 1, 1969), cover price $14.95
Product Description: Based on a series of lectures delivered at Cornell University in the fall of 1949, and since revised, this is the standard non-technical coverage of Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics and astronomy, and their transmission to the Hellenistic world...read more
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9780870570445 | 2 edition (Univ Pr of New England, June 1, 1957), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Based on a series of lectures delivered at Cornell University in the fall of 1949, and since revised, this is the standard non-technical coverage of Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics and astronomy, and their transmission to the Hellenistic world.
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