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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. Lunar and solar eclipses have always fascinated human beings. Digging deep into history, Clemency Montelle examines the ways in which theoretical understanding of eclipses originated and how ancient and medieval cultures shared, developed, and preserved their knowledge of these awe-inspiring events. Eclipses were the celestial phenomena most challenging to understand in the ancient world. Montelle draws on original research--much of it derived from reading primary source material written in Akkadian and Sanskrit, as well as ancient Greek, Latin, and Arabic--to explore how observers in Babylon, the Islamic Near East, Greece, and India developed new astronomical and mathematical techniques to predict and describe the features of eclipses. She identifies the profound scientific discoveries of these four cultures and discusses how the societies exchanged information about eclipses. In constructing this history, Montelle establishes a clear pattern of the transmission of scientific ideas from one culture to another in the ancient and medieval world. Chasing Shadows is an invitingly written and highly informative exploration of the early history of astronomy.…

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Hardback. Condition: 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. Condition: New. Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: Bhaskaracarya and his poetic genius: 1. Cangadeva s inscription of 1207/Editors. 2. The legend of Lilavati/Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma. 3. The poetical face of the mathematical and astronomical works of Bhaskaracarya/Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat. Part II: The Lilavati: 4. The lila of the Lilavati/K. Ramasubramanian, K. Mahesh, Aditya Kolachana. 5. Ganesa Daivajna s upapattis for some rules in the Lilavati/K. Ramakalyani. 6. A study of two Malayalam commentaries on the Lilavati/N. K. Sundareswaran and P. M. Vrinda. 7. Mensuration of quadrilaterals in the Lilavati/S. G. Dani. 8. Ankapasa in the Lilavati/Takanori Kusuba. Part III: The Bijaganita: 9. The Bijaganita of Bhaskaracarya: Some highlights/Sita Sundar Ram.10. A critical study of algorithms in the Karanisasvidham/Shriram M. Chauthaiwale. Part IV: The Siddhantasiromani: Ganitadhyaya: 11. Grahaganitadhyaya of Bhaskaracarya s Siddhantasiromani/M. S. Sriram. 12. Bhaskaracarya and Ksayamasa/Michio Yano. Part V: The Siddhantasiromani: Goladhyaya: 13. The Vasanabhasyas of Bhaskaracarya/M. D. Srinivas.14. The production of Sines: Bhaskaracarya s Jyotpatti/Clemency Montelle. 15. An application of the addition and subtraction formula for the Sine in Indian astronomy/Setsuro Ikeyama. 16. Astronomical instruments in Bhaskaracarya s Siddhantasiromani/Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma. Part VI: The Karanakutuhala:17. Bhojaraja and Bhaskara: Precursors of Karanakutuhala algebraic approximation formulas in the Rajamganka/Kim Plofker. Part VII: Reach of Bhaskaracarya s works and its pedagogical importance: 18. Persian translations of Bhaskara s Sanskrit texts and their impact in the following centuries/S. M. Razaullah Ansari.19. The use of Bhutasankhyas in the Lilavati of Bhaskaracarya/Medha Shrikant Limaye. 20. Implications of Bhaskaracarya s Lilavati to the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics/Hari Prasad Koirala. Bibliography. This volume is a compilation of scholarly contributions that highlight the achievements of the twelfth century Indian astronomer Bhaskaracarya. The articles arose from an International Conference held in 2014 to celebrate the 900th birth anniversary of this legendary scholar. Besides a detailed introduction, the volume comprises of twenty articles, and is divided into seven parts. Part I Presents an account of the Cangadeva inscription, with details about Bhaskara's lineage and his extraordinary scholarship, and also examines the origins of the famous 'Legend of Lilavati. Bhaskaracarya's mathematical contributions contained in his famous works the Lilavati and the Bijagaita are highlighted in Parts II and III. His astronomical contributions are surveyed in the following three parts. Parts IV and V investigate aspects of his famous astronomical work, the Siddhantasiromani, whereas Part VI deals with his astronomical handbook, the Karanakutuhala. Finally, Part VII, considers the transmission and circulation of the text in the Mughal period as well as the relevance and suitability of his works in modern pedagogy. With its extensive and comprehensive coverage, this volume would be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of astronomy and mathematics. As this volume is ground breaking in its coverage and comprehensiveness and attests to but one of the many illustrious thinkers in Indian history, it would be a very useful companion to anyone interested in the history of astronomy.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This groundbreaking volume provides an up-to-date, accessible guide to Sanskrit astronomical tables and their analysis. It begins with an overview of Indian mathematical astronomy and its literature, including table texts, in the context of history of pre-modern astronomy. It then discusses the primary mathematical astronomy content of table texts and the attempted taxonomy of this genre before diving into the broad outlines of their representation in the Sanskrit scientific manuscript corpus. Finally, the authors survey the major categories of individual tables compiled in these texts, complete with brief analyses of some of the methods for constructing and using them, and then chronicle the evolution of the table-text genre and the impacts of its changing role on the discipline of Sanskrit jyotia. There are also three appendices: one inventories all the identified individual works in the genre currently known to the authors; one provides reference information about the details of all the notational, calendric, astronomical, and other classification systems invoked in the study; and one serves as a glossary of the relevant Sanskrit terms. Finally, the authors survey the major categories of individual tables compiled in these texts, complete with brief analyses of some of the methods for constructing and using them, and then chronicle the evolution of the table-text genre and the impacts of its changing role on the discipline of Sanskrit jyotia. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. An invaluable reference book on the mathematics of Greek antiquity.Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are familiar names to many of us, and their contributions have shaped mathematical practice up to modern times. Yet the mathematical activity of Greek antiquity extended far beyond their achievements and was furthered by diverse individuals in different contexts. Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean brings together an extensive collection of primary source materials that document the extraordinary breadth of mathematical ideas developed in the Eastern Mediterranean from 500 BCE to 500 CE, a millennium in which Greek cultural influence spanned the ancient world.Weaving together ancient commentaries with the works themselves, Victor Katz and Clemency Montelle present a wealth of newly translated texts along with sources difficult to find elsewhere, from writings by the great mathematical thinkers of Greek antiquity to those by practitioners who used mathematics in everyday life. This comprehensive and wide-ranging sourcebook includes lesser-known authors who made critical contributions, sometimes in languages other than Greek, as well as accounts of technical instrumentation, papyri by anonymous authors designed for teaching purposes, and evidence of hand computations and numerical tables.An essential resource for anyone interested in the mathematical achievements of this remarkable intellectual culture, Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean encompasses disciplines that illustrate the important role of mathematics in ancient Greek society more broadly, from astronomy, music, and optics to philosophy, literature, and theater. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. An invaluable reference book on the mathematics of Greek antiquityEuclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are familiar names to many of us, and their contributions have shaped mathematical practice up to modern times. Yet the mathematical activity of Greek antiquity extended far beyond their achievements and was furthered by diverse individuals in different contexts. Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean brings together an extensive collection of primary source materials that document the extraordinary breadth of mathematical ideas developed in the Eastern Mediterranean from 500 BCE to 500 CE, a millennium in which Greek cultural influence spanned the ancient world.Weaving together ancient commentaries with the works themselves, Victor Katz and Clemency Montelle present a wealth of newly translated texts along with sources difficult to find elsewhere, from writings by the great mathematical thinkers of Greek antiquity to those by practitioners who used mathematics in everyday life. This comprehensive and wide-ranging sourcebook includes lesser-known authors who made critical contributions, sometimes in languages other than Greek, as well as accounts of technical instrumentation, papyri by anonymous authors designed for teaching purposes, and evidence of hand computations and numerical tables.An essential resource for anyone interested in the mathematical achievements of this remarkable intellectual culture, Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean encompasses disciplines that illustrate the important role of mathematics in ancient Greek society more broadly, from astronomy, music, and optics to philosophy, literature, and theater.…