The Lost Millennium: History's Timetables Under Siege, 2nd Edition
history's timetables under siege
$69.12
- Paperback
237 pages
- Release Date
14 December 2011
Summary
We measure history-its defining moments, landmark documents, and great figures-by dates. The French Revolution began in 1789, the Magna Carta was originally issued in 1215, and Julius Caesar died in the year 44 BC. What makes these dates correct, though? Is it possible that there is a massive gap in the historical record and that the calendar we use today is off by about 1,000 years? Sparked by a chance meeting at a conference in Mexico more than fifteen years ago, Florin Diacu sets off on a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421402888 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1421402882 |
| Author: | Florin Diacu |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 237 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 14 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 162mm x 228mm |
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Diacu, a polyglot and erudite mathematician, lays out old and recent debates with great clarity and offers the first detailed account for nonspecialists of the radical revisionist theories of Anatoli Fomenko and his colleagues. His book–like most of those he describes–will certainly become a flash point in its own right. For the general reader, it offers a fascinating look at an unknown world.–Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
About The Author
Florin Diacu
Florin Diacu is professor of mathematics and former director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences at the University of Victoria in Canada. He is the coauthor of “Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability” and the coeditor of “Classical and Celestial Mechanics: The Recife Lectures” (both Princeton).
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