TY  - BOOK
AU  - Netz,Reviel
TI  - The transformation of mathematics in the early Mediterranean world: From problems to equations 
T2  - Cambridge classical studies
SN  - 9780511720000 (ebook)
AV  - QA27.E85 N48 2004
U1  - 510/.94 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); The problem in the world of Archimedes -- From Archimedes to Eutocius -- From Archimedes to Khayyam
N2  - The transformation of mathematics from ancient Greece to the medieval Arab-speaking world is here approached by focusing on a single problem proposed by Archimedes and the many solutions offered. In this trajectory Reviel Netz follows the change in the task from solving a geometrical problem to its expression as an equation, still formulated geometrically, and then on to an algebraic problem, now handled by procedures that are more like rules of manipulation. From a practice of mathematics based on the localized solution (and grounded in the polemical practices of early Greek science) we see a transition to a practice of mathematics based on the systematic approach (and grounded in the deuteronomic practices of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages). With three chapters ranging chronologically from Hellenistic mathematics, through late Antiquity, to the medieval world, Reviel Netz offers an alternate interpretation of the historical journey of pre-modern mathematics
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511720000
ER  -