Poor Robins Prophesies & Divertisements
Author: Sir Roger L'Estrange
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Published: 1667
Total Pages: 2
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Author: Sir Roger L'Estrange
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Published: 1667
Total Pages: 2
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Published: 1677
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2012-10-25
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0191644579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and 'well-willer to the mathematics', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure of British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. Poor Robin's Almanac first appeared in 1662, developing an enthusiastic following and long outliving its original creator to last until 1828. Benjamin Wardhaugh tells the great story of Georgian popular mathematics - through Poor Robin's remarkable life, from his humble beginnings as an almanac-writer through to best-selling stardom, controversy, and decline. Using the character, wit, and columns of Poor Robin, Wardhaugh explores the mathematics of ordinary people, from learning sums to using mathematics in weighing and measuring, in business, agriculture, map-making, and navigation. This is a history of mathematics that is rarely thought about — creative, popular, and led by practical and social needs. It is centered on the ordinary people that used it. Their names remain little-known; their solutions have vanished along with the situations that required them; but their energy and ideas - as captured by Poor Robin - create a wonderfully rich picture of what mathematics can be, and has been.
Author: Poor Robin
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Published: 1677
Total Pages: 2
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Published: 1805
Total Pages: 1
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Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 896
ISBN-13: 9780835721011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Goddard Wing
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 540
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Published: 1677
Total Pages: 4
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roberte Hamayon
Publisher: Hau
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780986132568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlay is one of humanity's straightforward yet deceitful ideas: though the notion is unanimously agreed upon to be universal, used for man and animal alike, nothing defines what all its manifestations share, from childish playtime to on stage drama, from sporting events to market speculation. Within the author's anthropological field of work (Mongolia and Siberia), playing holds a core position: national holidays are called "Games," echoing in that way the circus games in Ancient Rome and today's Olympics. These games convey ethical values and local identity. Roberte Hamayon bases her analysis of the playing spectrum on their scrutiny. Starting from fighting and dancing, encompassing learning, interaction, emotion and strategy, this study heads towards luck and belief as well as the ambiguity of the relation to fiction and reality. It closes by indicating two features of play: its margin and its metaphorical structure. Ultimately revealing its consistency and coherence, the author displays play as a modality of action of its own. "Playing is no 'doing' in the ordinary sense" once wrote Johan Huizinga. Isn't playing doing something else, elswhere and otherwise ?