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Condición: New. Based on research in Sanskrit sources, this title chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Num Pages: 360 pages, 10 halftones. 40 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 30. Weight in Grams: 820. . 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . …

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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 308 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 30 cm. "This catalog is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized and presented by the Rubin Museum of Art, New York, September 28, 2009 through February 15, 2010"--Title page verso.…

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Condición: New. Based on research in Sanskrit sources, this title chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Num Pages: 360 pages, 10 halftones. 40 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 30. Weight in Grams: 820. . 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Hardback. Condición: New. Based on extensive research in Sanskrit sources, Mathematics in India chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Kim Plofker reexamines the few facts about Indian mathematics that have become common knowledge--such as the Indian origin of Arabic numerals--and she sets them in a larger textual and cultural framework. The book details aspects of the subject that have been largely passed over in the past, including the relationships between Indian mathematics and astronomy, and their cross-fertilizations with Islamic scientific traditions. Plofker shows that Indian mathematics appears not as a disconnected set of discoveries, but as a lively, diverse, yet strongly unified discipline, intimately linked to other Indian forms of learning. Far more than in other areas of the history of mathematics, the literature on Indian mathematics reveals huge discrepancies between what researchers generally agree on and what general readers pick up from popular ideas.This book explains with candor the chief controversies causing these discrepancies--both the flaws in many popular claims, and the uncertainties underlying many scholarly conclusions. Supplementing the main narrative are biographical resources for dozens of Indian mathematicians; a guide to key features of Sanskrit for the non-Indologist; and illustrations of manuscripts, inscriptions, and artifacts. Mathematics in India provides a rich and complex understanding of the Indian mathematical tradition. **Author's note: The concept of "computational positivism" in Indian mathematical science, mentioned on p. 120, is due to Prof. Roddam Narasimha and is explored in more detail in some of his works, including "The Indian half of Needham's question: some thoughts on axioms, models, algorithms, and computational positivism" (Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 28, 2003, 1-13).…

Hardback. Condición: New. A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Medieval Age covers the period from 500 to 1450, focusing in particular on the innovations in East and South Asia and in Islamicate cultures. With the invention of algebra and the decimal place-value number system - as well as innovations in trigonometry, astronomy, and finance - medieval mathematics reenvisioned the science it inherited from antiquity and fundamentally transformed the world. The six volume set of the Cultural History of Mathematics explores the value and impact of mathematics in human culture from antiquity to the present. The themes covered in each volume are everyday numeracy; practice and profession; inventing mathematics; mathematics and worldviews; describing and understanding the world; mathematics and technological change; representing mathematics.Joseph W. Dauben is Distinguished Professor of History at the City University of New York, USA.Clemency Montelle is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Kim Plofker is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Union College, Schenectady, NY,USA. Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Mathematics set.General Editors: David E. Rowe, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, and Joseph W. Dauben, City University of New York, USA.…

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Hardcover. Condición: As New. 8vo (24 cm), XI, [3], 357 pp. Publisher's cloth with dust jacket (ownership entry on the front free endpaper). "Based on extensive research in Sanskrit sources, this book chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Kim Plofker reexamines the widely known facts about Indian mathematics, such as the Indian origin of Arabic numerals, placing them within a broader textual and cultural framework. The book explores often-overlooked aspects of the subject, including the connections between Indian mathematics and astronomy and their interactions with Islamic scientific traditions. Plofker illustrates how Indian mathematics emerges not as a fragmented collection of discoveries but as a dynamic, diverse, and deeply integrated discipline closely tied to other Indian forms of learning." (from the blurb).…

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