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Beschreibung
This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus' Arithmetica, alongside a comprehensive conceptual, historical, and mathematical commentary. Of interest to scholars of history from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, historians of mathematics, science, and technology, and mathematicians.
This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus' Arithmetica, alongside a comprehensive conceptual, historical, and mathematical commentary. Of interest to scholars of history from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, historians of mathematics, science, and technology, and mathematicians.
Über den Autor

Jean Christianidis is a professor of history of mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and partner member of the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (Paris, France). He has authored or co-authored numerous articles on Diophantus and on Greek and Byzantine mathematics.

Jeffrey Oaks is a mathematics professor at University of Indianapolis (USA). He is co-author of the 2021 book Al-Haw¿r¿'s Essential Commentary: Arabic Arithmetic in the Fourteenth Century.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction, 1. Diophantus and his work, 2. Numbers, problem solving, and algebra, 3. History, 4. Structure and language of the Arithmetica, 5. The didactic aspect of the Arithmetica, Part II: Translation, Part III: Commentary, Part IV: Appendices.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Altertum
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032324456
ISBN-10: 1032324457
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Christianidis, Jean
Oaks, Jeffrey
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstr. 24, D-80331 München, gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com
Maße: 234 x 156 x 47 mm
Von/Mit: Jean Christianidis (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2024
Gewicht: 1,326 kg
Artikel-ID: 129952134