The New Mathematics and an Old Culture
Author: Michael Cole
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 348
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Author: Michael Cole
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Gay
Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCase study of the teaching of mathematics to kpelle childern in Liberia to illustrate the effect of traditional cultural factors on the learning readiness of tribal peoples - examines the social structure, sociological aspects of education under given living conditions, teaching methods to cope with illiteracy and language problems, etc. Bibliography pp. 97 to 100 and diagrams.
Author: John Gay
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John H. GAY (and COLE (Michael) of the University of California at Irvine.)
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Tuplin
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780198152484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAncient Greece was the birthplace of science, which developed in the Hellenized culture of ancient Rome. This book, written by seventeen international experts, examines the role and achievement of science and mathematics in Greek antiquity through discussion of the linguistic, literary, political, religious, sociological, and technological factors which influenced scientific thought and practice.
Author: Helaine Selin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 9401143013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMathematics Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Mathematics consists of essays dealing with the mathematical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Inca, Egyptian, and African mathematics, among others, the book includes essays on Rationality, Logic and Mathematics, and the transfer of knowledge from East to West. The essays address the connections between science and culture and relate the mathematical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.
Author: Jessica K. Sklar
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0786489944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMathematics has maintained a surprising presence in popular media for over a century. In recent years, the movies Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, and Stand and Deliver, the stage plays Breaking the Code and Proof, the novella Flatland and the hugely successful television crime series NUMB3RS all weave mathematics prominently into their storylines. Less obvious but pivotal references to the subject appear in the blockbuster TV show Lost, the cult movie The Princess Bride, and even Tolstoy's War and Peace. In this collection of new essays, contributors consider the role of math in everything from films, baseball, crossword puzzles, fantasy role-playing games, and television shows to science fiction tales, award-winning plays and classic works of literature. Revealing the broad range of intersections between mathematics and mainstream culture, this collection demonstrates that even "mass entertainment" can have a hidden depth.
Author: Sarju Tiwari
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9788170994046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C. K. Raju
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9788131708712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Volume Examines, In Depth, The Implications Of Indian History And Philosophy For Contemporary Mathematics And Science. The Conclusions Challenge Current Formal Mathematics And Its Basis In The Western Dogma That Deduction Is Infallible (Or That It Is Less Fallible Than Induction). The Development Of The Calculus In India, Over A Thousand Years, Is Exhaustively Documented In This Volume, Along With Novel Insights, And Is Related To The Key Sources Of Wealth-Monsoon-Dependent Agriculture And Navigation Required For Overseas Trade - And The Corresponding Requirement Of Timekeeping. Refecting The Usual Double Standard Of Evidence Used To Construct Eurocentric History, A Single, New Standard Of Evidence For Transmissions Is Proposed. Using This, It Is Pointed Out That Jesuits In Cochin, Following The Toledo Model Of Translation, Had Long-Term Opportunity To Transmit Indian Calculus Texts To Europe. The European Navigational Problem Of Determining Latitude, Longitude, And Loxodromes, And The 1582 Gregorian Calendar-Reform, Provided Ample Motivation. The Mathematics In These Earlier Indian Texts Suddenly Starts Appearing In European Works From The Mid-16Th Century Onwards, Providing Compelling Circumstantial Evidence. While The Calculus In India Had Valid Pramana, This Differed From Western Notions Of Proof, And The Indian (Algorismus) Notion Of Number Differed From The European (Abacus) Notion. Hence, Like Their Earlier Difficulties With The Algorismus, Europeans Had Difficulties In Understanding The Calculus, Which, Like Computer Technology, Enhanced The Ability To Calculate, Albeit In A Way Regarded As Epistemologically Insecure. Present-Day Difficulties In Learning Mathematics Are Related, Via Phylogeny Is Ontogeny , To These Historical Difficulties In Assimilating Imported Mathematics. An Appendix Takes Up Further Contemporary Implications Of The New Philosophy Of Mathematics For The Extension Of The Calculus, Which Is Needed To Handle The Infinities Arising In The Study Of Shock Waves And The Renormalization Problem Of Quantum Field Theory.
Author: Alan Bishop
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-04-17
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9401722099
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