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Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World (eBook)

Numbers, Measurements, and Operations in Documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia

Karine Chemla, Agathe Keller, Christine Proust (Herausgeber)

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2023 | 1. Auflage
X, 765 Seiten
Springer-Verlag
978-3-030-98361-1 (ISBN)

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This book sheds light on the variety of mathematical cultures in general. To do so, it concentrates on cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world, mainly in ancient China, South Asia, and the Ancient Near East and offers case studies focused on numbers, quantities, and operations, in particular in relation to mathematics as well as administrative and economic activities.

The various chapters focus on the different ways and contexts of shaping numbers and quantities, and on the procedures applied to them. The book places special emphasis on the processes of emergence of place-value number systems, evidenced in the three geographical areas under study All these features yield essential elements that will enable historians of mathematics to further capture the diversity of computation practices in their contexts, whereas previous historical approaches have tended to emphasize elements that displayed uniformity within 'civilizational' blocks. The book includes editions and translations of texts, some of them published here for the first time, maps, and conventions for editions of ancient texts. It thereby offers primary sources and methodological tools for teaching and learning.

The volume is aimed at historians and philosophers of science and mathematics, historians of the ancient worlds, historians of economics, sinologists, indologists, assyriologists, as well as undergraduate, graduate students and teachers in mathematics, the history and philosophy of science and mathematics, and in the history of ancient worlds.

Karine Chemla studied mathematics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles (1976-1982) and the history of mathematics at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences (Beijing, China, 1981). She is a Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in the laboratory SPHERE (CNRS & Université de Paris), and from 2011 to 2016, Chemla was Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Research Grant 'Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient Worlds,' with co-directors A. Keller and C. Proust (SAW).

Agathe Keller is Senior Researcher with the CNRS and Member of the SPHERE lab in Paris. She works on medieval Sanskrit mathematical commentaries (5^th-12^th centuries) and on the historiography of mathematics in and on India from the 19^th century until today. She has published Expounding the mathematical Seed, Bhaskara's commentary on the mathematical chapter of the Aryabha?iya (Birkhaüser, 2006).

Christine Proust is Senior Researcher Emerita at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris). She works on the history of mathematics in the Ancient Near East, more specifically on mathematical cuneiform texts from different periods, including the end of the third millennium BCE, the Old Babylonian period (early second millennium), and Late Babylonian periods (last centuries of the first millennium BCE).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2023
Reihe/Serie	Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter
Zusatzinfo	X, 765 p. 332 illus., 48 illus. in color.
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Cultures of Computation • Diyala • History and Philosophy of Number • History of Administrative and Economic Practices • History of Mathematical Cultures • Operations and Algorithms
ISBN-10	3-030-98361-7 / 3030983617
ISBN-13	978-3-030-98361-1 / 9783030983611

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