The Babylonian Theorem
the mathematical journey to pythagoras and euclid
$49.98
- Hardcover
248 pages
- Release Date
25 January 2010
Summary
In this sequel to his award-winning “How Mathematics Happened”, physicist Peter S Rudman explores the history of mathematics among the Babylonians and Egyptians, showing how their scribes in the era from 2000 to 1600 BCE used visualisations of how plane geometric figures could be partitioned into squares, rectangles, and right triangles to invent geometric algebra, even solving problems that we now do by quadratic algebra. Using illustrations adapted from both Babylonian cuneiform tablets and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781591027737 |
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| ISBN-10: | 159102773X |
| Author: | Peter S. Rudman |
| Publisher: | Prometheus Books |
| Imprint: | Prometheus Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 25 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
Peter S. Rudman
Peter S. Rudman (Tel Aviv, Israel), a retired professor of physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, is the author of How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years, which was selected in 2008 as an Outstanding Academic Text by the American Library Association.
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