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Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World - A Global Perspective (Hardcover)
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Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World - A Global Perspective (Hardcover)
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This is the first book-length analysis of the techniques and
procedures of ancient mathematical commentaries. It focuses on
examples in Chinese, Sanskrit, Akkadian and Sumerian, and Ancient
Greek, presenting the general issues by constant detailed reference
to these commentaries, of which substantial extracts are included
in the original languages and in translation, sometimes for the
first time. This makes the issues accessible to readers without
specialized training in mathematics or in the languages involved.
The result is a much richer understanding than was hitherto
possible of the crucial role of commentaries in the history of
mathematics in four different linguistic areas, of the nature of
mathematical commentaries in general, of the contribution that the
study of mathematical commentaries can make to the history of
science and to the study of commentaries in general, and of the
ways in which mathematical commentaries are like and unlike other
kinds of commentaries.
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