Author : Florian Cajori
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486161161
This classic study notes the origin of a mathematical symbol, the competition it encountered, its spread among writers in different countries, its rise to popularity, and its eventual decline or ultimate survival. 1929 edition.
Author : Florian Cajori
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1616405716
Described even today as "unsurpassed," this history of mathematical notation stretching back to the Babylonians and Egyptians is one of the most comprehensive written. In two impressive volumes, first published in 1928-9 and reproduced here under one cover, distinguished mathematician Florian Cajori shows the origin, evolution, and dissemination of each symbol and the competition it faced in its rise to popularity or fall into obscurity. Illustrated with more than a hundred diagrams and figures, this "mirror of past and present conditions in mathematics" will give students and historians a whole new appreciation for "1 + 1 = 2." Swiss-American author, educator, and mathematician FLORIAN CAJORI (1859-1930) was one of the world's most distinguished mathematical historians. Appointed to a specially created chair in the history of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, he also wrote An Introduction to the Theory of Equations, A History of Mathematical Notations, and The Chequered Career of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler.
Author : Florian Cajori
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486677664
This classic study notes the first appearance of a mathematical symbol and its origin, the competition it encountered, its spread among writers in different countries, its rise to popularity, and its eventual decline or ultimate survival. Originally published in 1929 in a two-volume edition, this monumental work is presented here in a single volume.
Author : Florian Cajori
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Mathematics
ISBN :
Author : Karl Menninger
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486270963
Classic study discusses number sequence and language and explores written numerals and computations in many cultures. "The historian of mathematics will find much to interest him here both in the contents and viewpoint, while the casual reader is likely to be intrigued by the author's superior narrative ability." -Library Journal.282 illustrations. 1969 edition.
Author : Florian Cajori
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Chrisomalis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521878187
This book is a cross-cultural reference volume of all attested numerical notation systems, encompassing more than 100 such systems used over the past 5,500 years. Using a typology that defies unilinear evolutionary models, Stephen Chrisomalis identifies five basic types of numerical notation systems, tracks relationships between systems, and creates a general model of change that incorporates social, historical, and cognitive factors.
Author : Stephen Chrisomalis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 026236087X
Insights from the history of numerical notation suggest that how humans write numbers is an active choice involving cognitive and social factors. Over the past 5,000 years, more than 100 methods of numerical notation--distinct ways of writing numbers--have been developed and used by specific communities. Most of these are barely known today; where they are known, they are often derided as cognitively cumbersome and outdated. In Reckonings, Stephen Chrisomalis considers how humans past and present use numerals, reinterpreting historical and archaeological representations of numerical notation and exploring the implications of why we write numbers with figures rather than words.
Author : Brian Rotman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780804736848
In this book, Rotman argues that mathematics is a vast and unique man-made imagination machine controlled by writing. It addresses both aspects—mental and linguistic—of this machine. The essays in this volume offer an insight into Rotman's project, one that has been called "one of the most original and important recent contributions to the philosophy of mathematics."
Author : Florian Cajori
Publisher :
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 1929
Category :
ISBN :
