Medieval Scandinavia

Medieval Scandinavia
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 838
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ISBN-10 : 0824047877
ISBN-13 : 9780824047870
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Synopsis Medieval Scandinavia by : Phillip Pulsiano

With full-page maps and supplementary photos, this encyclopedia covers every aspect of Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art.

東北数學雑誌

東北数學雑誌
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105001362529
ISBN-13 :
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Synopsis 東北数學雑誌 by : Tsuruichi Hayashi

Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century

Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 1434
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ISBN-10 : 0802068502
ISBN-13 : 9780802068507
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century by : Robert L. Benson

Twenty-seven authors approach the diverse areas of the cultural, religious, and social life of the twelfth century. These essays form a basic resource for all interested in this pivotal century. A reprint of the first edition first published in 1982.

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 441
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ISBN-10 : 9780226467139
ISBN-13 : 0226467139
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II by : Donald F. Lach

Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history. Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

Principles of Hindu Reckoning

Principles of Hindu Reckoning
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Total Pages : 142
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B4980870
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Synopsis Principles of Hindu Reckoning by : Kūshyār ibn Labbān

Cultural Foundations of Mathematics

Cultural Foundations of Mathematics
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Publisher : Pearson Education India
Total Pages : 536
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ISBN-10 : 8131708713
ISBN-13 : 9788131708712
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Cultural Foundations of Mathematics by : C. K. Raju

The 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.

Arithmetic in Old French

Arithmetic in Old French
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Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015017390777
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Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Arithmetic in Old French by :