The Crest of the Peacock
Author | : George Gheverghese Joseph |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1992 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015032182860 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
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Author | : George Gheverghese Joseph |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1992 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015032182860 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Author | : George Gheverghese Joseph |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2016-07-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781786340634 |
ISBN-13 | : 1786340631 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Indian Mathematics gives a unique insight into the history of mathematics within a historical global context. It builds on research into the connection between mathematics and the world-wide advancement of economics and technology. Joseph draws out parallel developments in other cultures and carefully examines the transmission of mathematical ideas across geographical and cultural borders.Accessible to those who have an interest in the global history of mathematical ideas, for the historians, philosophers and sociologists of mathematics, it is a book not to be missed.
Author | : Arthur B. Powell |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 079143351X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780791433515 |
Rating | : 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Presents the emerging field of ethnomathematics from a critical perspective, challenging particular ways in which Eurocentrism permeates mathematics education and mathematics in general.
Author | : David Nelson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1993 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015029964908 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
The history of mathematics is one of creation and discovery in many parts of the world, and yet few people realize that Pythagoras' Theorem was known to the Babylonians a thousand years before the Greeks. Similarly, Pascal's Triangle of 1645 was actually used in practical ways much earlier in China. Indeed, there is a rich field of African, Middle Eastern, and Asian mathematics that is often ignored in the teaching of the subject. Mathematics, then, is an international language and field of study that knows no barriers between race, culture, or creed. How can we exploit this rich heritage not only to improve the teaching of mathematics, but to prepare our children for life in a multicultural society? This pioneering book is the first to explore ways of helping schoolchildren understand the universality of mathematics, and at the same time making it a more enjoyable, relevant, and rewarding enterprise. Multicultural Mathematics brings together the experience of three well-known teachers and researchers who offer suggestions and guidance for an important new approach to education. Written for parents, teachers, and administrators, and with technical mathematics kept to a minimum, this book discusses the theories behind multicultural mathematics, shows how this method can be applied within the core of any elementary curriculum, and explores the educational and social benefits of this new approach to teaching mathematics.
Author | : George Gheverghese Joseph |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780691135267 |
ISBN-13 | : 0691135266 |
Rating | : 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
The contents of this book cover the history of mathematics, the beginnings of written mathematics, Egyptian and Mesopotamian mathematics, special topics in Chinese mathematics, and much more.
Author | : George Gheverghese Joseph |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-12-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 8132101685 |
ISBN-13 | : 9788132101680 |
Rating | : 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
This book traces the first faltering steps taken in the mathematical theorization of infinity which marks the emergence of modern mathematics. It analyzes the part played by Indian mathematics through the Kerala conduit, which is an important but neglected part of the history of mathematics.
Author | : Claudia Henrion |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1997-10-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 0253114993 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780253114990 |
Rating | : 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
"... a wonderful addition to any mathematics teacher's professional bookshelf." -- The Mathematics Teacher "The individual biographies themselves make for enthralling, often inspiring, reading... this volume should be compelling reading for women mathematics students and professionals. A fine addition to the literature on women in science... Highly recommended." -- Choice "... it makes an important contribution to scholarship on the interrelations of gender, mathematics, and culture in the U.S. in the second half of the twentieth century." -- Notices of the AMS "Who is the audience for this book? Certainly women who are interested in studying mathematics and women already in mathematics who have become discouraged will find much to interest and help them. Faculty who teach such women would put it to good use. But it would be a loss to relegate the book to a shelf for occasional reference to an interested student or beginning mathematician. Everyone in the mathematics community in which each of Henrion's subjects struggled so hard to find a place could benefit by a thoughtful reading." -- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) News Mathematics is often described as the purest of the sciences, the least tainted by subjective or cultural influences. Theoretically, the only requirement for a life of mathematics is mathematical ability. And yet we see very few women mathematicians. Why? Based upon a series of ten intensive interviews with prominent women mathematicians throughout the United States, this book investigates the role of gender in the complex relationship between mathematician, the mathematical community, and mathematics itself.
Author | : Évariste Galois |
Publisher | : European Mathematical Society |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 303719104X |
ISBN-13 | : 9783037191040 |
Rating | : 4/5 (4X Downloads) |
Before he died at the age of twenty, shot in a mysterious early-morning duel at the end of May 1832, Evariste Galois created mathematics that changed the direction of algebra. This book contains English translations of almost all the Galois material. The translations are presented alongside a new transcription of the original French and are enhanced by three levels of commentary. An introduction explains the context of Galois' work, the various publications in which it appears, and the vagaries of his manuscripts. Then there is a chapter in which the five mathematical articles published in his lifetime are reprinted. After that come the testamentary letter and the first memoir (in which Galois expounded on the ideas that led to Galois Theory), which are the most famous of the manuscripts. These are followed by the second memoir and other lesser known manuscripts. This book makes available to a wide mathematical and historical readership some of the most exciting mathematics of the first half of the nineteenth century, presented in its original form. The primary aim is to establish a text of what Galois wrote. The details of what he did, the proper evidence of his genius, deserve to be well understood and appreciated by mathematicians as well as historians of mathematics.
Author | : F. Arthur Sherk |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1995-05-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 0471010030 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780471010036 |
Rating | : 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
H.S.M. Coxeter is one of the world's best-known mathematicians who wrote several papers and books on geometry, algebra and topology, and finite mathematics. This book is being published in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Mathematical Society and it is a collection of 26 papers written by Dr. Coxeter.
Author | : Marcia Ascher |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1994-05-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0412989417 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780412989414 |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
In this truly one-of-a-kind book, Ascher introduces the mathematical ideas of people in traditional, or "small-scale", cultures often omitted from discussion of mathematics. Topics such as "Numbers: Words and Symbols", "Tracing Graphs in the Sand", "The Logic of Kin Relations", "Chance and Strategy in Games and Puzzles", and "The Organization and Modeling of Space" are traced in various cultures including the Inuit, Navajo, and Iroquois of North America; the Inca of South America; the Malekula, Warlpiri, Maori, and Caroline Islanders of Oceania, and the Tshokwe, Bushoong, and Kpelle of Africa. As Ascher explores mathematical ideas involving numbers, logic, spatial configuration, and the organization of these into systems and structures, readers gain both a broader understanding and anappreciation for the idease of other peoples.