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The Babylonian Theorem

The Mathematical Journey to Pythagoras and Euclid

Rudman, Peter S.

The Babylonian Theorem

The Babylonian Theorem

The Mathematical Journey to Pythagoras and Euclid

The Babylonian Theorem

 

Rudman explores the facisnating history of mathematics among the Babylonians and Egyptians. He formulates a Babylonian Theorem, which he shows was used to derive the Pythagorean Theorem about a millennium before its purported discovery by Pythagoras


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Beschrijving The Babylonian Theorem

Explores the history of mathematics among the Babylonians and Egyptians, showing how their scribes in the era from 2000 to 1600 BCE used visualisations of how plane geometric figures could be partitioned into squares, rectangles, and right triangles to invent geometric algebra, even solving problems that we now do by quadratic algebra.


ISBN
9781591027737
Pagina's
248
Verschenen
NUR
910
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Prometheus Books

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