How Mathematics Happened The First 50,000 Years

Name: How Mathematics Happened The First 50,000 Years
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ISBN: 9781591024774

ISBN-10: 1591024773

ISBN-13: 9781591024774

Edition: 2006

Authors: Peter S. Rudman

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 10/2/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 316
Size: 6.39" wide x 9.13" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Preface



Introduction



Mathematical Darwinism



The Replacement Concept



Number Systems



The Birth of Arithmetic



Pattern Recognition Evolves into Counting



Counting in Hunter-Gatherer Cultures



Pebble Counting Evolves into Written Numbers



Herder-Farmer and Urban Cultures in the Valley of the Nile



Herder-Farmer and Urban Cultures by the Waters of Babylon



In the Jungles of the Maya



Mathematics in the Valley of the Nile



Egyptian Multiplication



Egyptian Fractions



Egyptian Algebra



Pyramidiots



Mathematics by the Waters of Babylon



Babylonian Multiplication



Babylonian Fractions



Plimpton 322-The Enigma



Babylonian Algebra



Babylonian Calculation of Square Root of 2



Mathematics Attains Maturity: Rigorous Proof



Pythagoras



Eratosthenes



Hippasus



We Learn History to Be Able to Repeat It



Teaching Mathematics in Ancient Greece and How We Should but Do Not



Answers to Fun Questions


Notes and References


Index