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091005s2010 nyua b 001 0 eng |
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2009039196 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781591027737 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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159102773X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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QA22 |
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.R859 2010 |
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510.935 |
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22 |
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RUD/B |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Rudman, Peter Strom |
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| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Babylonian theorem : |
| Remainder of title |
the mathematical journey to Pythagoras and Euclid / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Peter S. Rudman. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Amherst, N.Y. : |
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Prometheus Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2010. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
248 p. : |
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ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Sequel to: How mathematics happened, the first 50,000 years. 2007. |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-243) and index. |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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Number system basics -- Egyptian numbers and arithmetic -- Babylonian numbers and arithmetic -- Old Babylonian "quadratic algebra" problem texts. YBC 6967 ; AO 8862 ; Db₂ 146 ; VAT 8512 -- Pythagorean triples. OB problem text BM 85196 #9 ; Berlin Papyrus 6610 #1 ; Proto-Plimpton 322 ; Plimpton 322 -- Square root calculations. Egyptian calculation ; OB problem text YBC 7289 ; OB squaring-the-rectangle (Heron's method) ; OB cut-and-paste square root (Newton's method) ; Pythagoras calculates square roots ; Archimedes calculates square roots ; Ptolemy calculates square roots --PI [mathematical symbol for Pi]. RMP problems 48 and 50 ; OB problem text YBC 7302 ; A scribe from Susa calculates [Pi] (ca. 2000 BCE) ; Archimedes calculates [Pi] (ca. 200 BCE) ; Kepler calculates the area of a circle (ca. 1600) ; Everybody calculates the area of a circle (ca. 2000) -- Similar triangles (Proportionality). RMP problem 53 ; OB problem text MLC 1950 ; OB problem text IM 55357 -- Sequences and series. Arithmetic sequences and series ; OB problem text YBC 4608 #5 ; TMP problem 64 ; RMP problem 40 ; Geometric sequences and series ; OB problem text IM 55357-- revisited -- Old Babylonian algebra : simultaneous linear equations. A modern elementary algebra problem ; OB problem test VAT 8389 -- Pyramid volume. How they knew V (pyramid) / V (prism) = 1/3 ; Euclid proves V (pyramid) / V (prism) = 1/3 ; Truncated pyramid (frustum) volume -- From Old Babylonian scribe to Late Babylonian scribe to Pythagoras to Plato. Late Babylonian (LB) mathematics ; Pythagoras (ca. 580-500 BCE) ; Plato (427-347 BCE) -- Euclid. Who was Euclid? ; Euclid I-1 ; Euclid I-22 ; Euclid I-37 ; Euclid I-47 : the Pythagorean Theorem ; Euclid II-22 ; Euclid II-14 : the Babylonian Theorem. |
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Pythagoras. |
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Euclid. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Mathematics, Babylonian. |
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Mathematics, Ancient. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Mathematics |
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Egypt |
| General subdivision |
History. |
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| Personal name |
Rudman, Peter Strom. |
| Title of a work |
How mathematics happened, the first 50,000 years. |
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