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- catalog abstract ""The transformation of mathematics from ancient Greece to the medieval Arab-speaking world is here approached by focusing on a single problem proposed by Archimedes and the many solutions offered. In this trajectory Reviel Netz follows the change in the task from solving a geometrical problem to its expression as an equation, still formulated geometrically, and then on to an algebraic problem, now handled by procedures that are more like rules of manipulation. From a practice of mathematics based on the localized solution (and grounded in the polemical practices of early Greek science) we see a transition to a practice of mathematics based on the systematic approach (and grounded in the deuteronomic practices of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages). With three chapters ranging chronologically from Hellenistic mathematics, through Late Antiquity, to the medieval world, Reviel Netz offers a radically new interpretation of the historical journey of pre-modern mathematics."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13295111.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""The transformation of mathematics from ancient Greece to the medieval Arab-speaking world is here approached by focusing on a single problem proposed by Archimedes and the many solutions offered. In this trajectory Reviel Netz follows the change in the task from solving a geometrical problem to its expression as an equation, still formulated geometrically, and then on to an algebraic problem, now handled by procedures that are more like rules of manipulation.".
- catalog description "From a practice of mathematics based on the localized solution (and grounded in the polemical practices of early Greek science) we see a transition to a practice of mathematics based on the systematic approach (and grounded in the deuteronomic practices of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages).".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195) and index.".
- catalog description "The problem in the world of Archimedes -- From Archimedes to Eutocius -- From Archimedes to Khayyam.".
- catalog description "With three chapters ranging chronologically from Hellenistic mathematics, through Late Antiquity, to the medieval world, Reviel Netz offers a radically new interpretation of the historical journey of pre-modern mathematics."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "ix, 198 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521829968".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge classical studies".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe".
- catalog subject "Mathematics Europe History.".
- catalog subject "QA27.E85 N48 2004X".
- catalog tableOfContents "The problem in the world of Archimedes -- From Archimedes to Eutocius -- From Archimedes to Khayyam.".
- catalog title "The transformation of mathematics in the early Mediterranean world : from problems to equations / Reviel Netz.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".