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Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World - Numbers, Measurements, and Operations in Documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World - Numbers, Measurements, and Operations in Documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter, 6
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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.
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