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050 0 0 _aQA27.E85
_bN48 2004
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100 1 _aNetz, Reviel,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe transformation of mathematics in the early Mediterranean world :
_bFrom problems to equations /
_cReviel Netz.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2004.
300 _a1 online resource (ix, 198 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge classical studies
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 _aThe problem in the world of Archimedes -- From Archimedes to Eutocius -- From Archimedes to Khayyam.
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aMathematics
_zEurope
_xHistory.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521829960
830 0 _aCambridge classical studies.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511720000
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_d518358