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What has counting meant to different cultures and different individuals?In this book, historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh explores stories from all over the world and from every period of human history, from the African Stone Age to cyberspace, from Assyrian kings to Chinese peasants.Weaving these histories together, Wardhaugh shows the ways in which counting has been continually reinvented over time, through language, writing, coun...

What has counting meant to different cultures and different individuals?In this book, historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh explores stories from all over the world and from every period of human history, from the African Stone Age to cyberspace, from Assyrian kings to Chinese peasants.Weaving these histories together, Wardhaugh shows the ways in which counting has been continually reinvented over time, through language, writing, coun...

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Seit dreiundzwanzig Jahrhunderten verändern Euklids » Elemente« die Welt. Die Zusammenstellung von Fakten über den Raum und seine Eigenschaften - Linien und Figuren, Zahlen und Verhältnisse - prägen bis heute Philosophie, Kunst, Musik, Literatur und Wissenschaft. Doch was wissen wir eigentlich über ihre Entstehung und ihren Verfasser?Benjamin Wardhaugh entstaubt Euklids Vermächtnis und begibt sich auf eine Zeitreise zu den Anfängen unserer Kul...

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook - shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.

John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, Porphyry and Bryennius - and involved him in discussions w

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook - shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook - shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.

Die unglaubliche Geschichte von Charles Hutton - vom Grubenjungen zum begnadeten Wissenschaftler Wer war Charles Hutton? Charles Hutton (1737-1823) war ein britischer Mathematiker und gehörte zu angesehensten Wissenschaftlern seiner Zeit. Dies ist seine Geschichte: Als Sohn eines Bergwerkaufsehers wächst er als Grubenjunge in den Bergwerken Newcastles auf. Ein Unfall rettet ihn vor dem Schicksal, ein Leben lang unter Tage zu schuften. Er k...

Charles Hutton's eighteenth to nineteenth century trajectory from the pits to the Royal Society, becoming a mathematician and rebel scientist, presented in a style and tone comparable to "Guns, Germs & Steel" and "The Man Who Knew Infinity".

August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne.

This book is the first edition of the surviving correspondence of celebrated Georgain mathematician and educator Charles Hutton (1737-1823).

John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, Porphyry and Bryennius - and involved him in discussions with Henry Oldenburg, the Secretary of the Royal Society, Thomas Salmon and others as his ideas de...

Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon.

Thomas Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the "Essay to the Advancement of Musick" (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. This volume is a scholarly edition of Salmon's writings on notation.

The writing of mathematical histories has a long history, one which has seldom received scholarly attention. Mathematical history, and mathematical biography, raise distinctive issues of method and approach to which different periods have responded in different ways. At a time of increasing interest in the history of mathematics, this book attempts to show something of the trajectory that history has taken in the past. It presents seven case s...

This book constitutes an overarching history of quantitative music theory in the seventeenth century, focusing namely on the applications of mathematical and mechanical methods of understanding to music produced in England between 1653 and 1705. It begins with the responses to Descartes's 1650 Compendium musicÿ, and ends with the Philosophical Transactions' account of the appearance of Thomas Salmon at the Royal Society in 1705. The book's con...