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  • Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World

    Textual Criticism, Critical Editions and Translations of Scholarly Texts in History

    Edición de Agathe Keller, Karine Chemla ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancient scientific texts. It first looks at ancient editorial practices, and at their impact on modern editions. Contributions analyze how, through time, the perception of what a text was may have changed, and influenced how scholarly texts were made accessible. The second section looks at the historical, ... Leer más

    $134.09 USD

  • The Richness of the History of Mathematics

    A Tribute to Jeremy Gray

    Edición de Karine Chemla, José Ferreirós, Lizhen Ji, Erhard Scholz, Chang Wang ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book, a tribute to historian of mathematics Jeremy Gray, offers an overview of the history of mathematics and its inseparable connection to philosophy and other disciplines. Many different approaches to the study of the history of mathematics have been developed. Understanding this diversity is central to learning about these fields, but very few books deal with their richness and concrete ... Leer más

    $197.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Generality in Mathematics and the Sciences

    Edición de Karine Chemla, Renaud Chorlay, David Rabouin ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Generality is a key value in scientific discourses and practices. Throughout history, it has received a variety of meanings and of uses. This collection of original essays aims to inquire into this diversity. Through case studies taken from the history of mathematics, physics and the life sciences, the book provides evidence of different ways of understanding the general in various contexts. It ... Leer más

    $125.09 USD

  • Cultures without Culturalism

    The Making of Scientific Knowledge

    Edición de Karine Chemla, Evelyn Fox Keller ...
    Cultural accounts of scientific ideas and practices have increasingly come to be welcomed as a corrective to previous—and still widely held—theories of scientific knowledge and practices as universal. The editors caution, however, against the temptation to overgeneralize the work of culture, and to lapse into a kind of essentialism that flattens the range and variety of scientific work. The book ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions

    Edición de Karine Chemla ...
    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. It documents the existence of proofs in ancient mathematical ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in Ancient Worlds

    Edición de Cécile Michel, Karine Chemla ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book focuses on the ancient Near East, early imperial China, South-East Asia, and medieval Europe, shedding light on mathematical knowledge and practices documented by sources relating to the administrative and economic activities of officials, merchants and other actors. It compares these to mathematical texts produced in related school contexts or reflecting the pursuit of mathematics for ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD

  • Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science

    de Karine Chemla, Catherine Jami, Agathe Keller, Christine Proust ...
    Series series History (R0)
    How do Documents Become Sources? Perspectives from Asia and Science Florence Bretelle-Establet From Documents to Sources in Historiography The present volume develops a specific type of critical analysis of the written documents that have become historians’ sources. For reasons that will be explained later, the history of science in Asia has been taken as a framework. However, the issue addressed ... Leer más

    $188.99 USD

  • Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World

    Numbers, Measurements, and Operations in Documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia

    Edición de Karine Chemla, Agathe Keller, Christine Proust ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book sheds light on the variety of mathematical cultures in general. To do so, it concentrates on cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world, mainly in ancient China, South Asia, and the Ancient Near East and offers case studies focused on numbers, quantities, and operations, in particular in relation to mathematics as well as administrative and economic activities.The ... Leer más

    $170.99 USD

  • Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science

    Edición de Karine Chemla, Jacques Virbel ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The book presents the outcomes of an innovative research programme in the history of science and implements a Text Act Theory which extends Speech Act Theory, in order to illustrate a new approach to texts and textual communicative acts. It examines assertives (absolute or conditional statements, forecasts, insurance, etc.), directives, declarations and enumerations, as well as different types of ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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    Portrait of a Problematic Vocation

    de Michael Harris, Michael Harris ...
    An insightful reflection on the mathematical soulWhat do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers—for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications—this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of ... Leer más

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  • The Crest of the Peacock

    Non-European Roots of Mathematics - Third Edition

    de George Gheverghese Joseph ...
    From the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, The Crest of the Peacock makes it clear that human beings everywhere have been capable of advanced and innovative mathematical thinking. George Gheverghese Joseph takes us on a breathtaking multicultural tour of the roots and shoots of non-European mathematics. He shows us the deep ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics

    Edición de Eleanor Robson, Jacqueline Stedall ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it. It addresses questions of who creates mathematics, who uses it, and how. A broader understanding of mathematical practitioners naturally leads to a new appreciation of what counts as a historical source. Material and oral ... Leer más

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