By Alistair Macintosh Wilson
A talk among Euclid and the ghost of Socrates. . . the trails of the moon and the sunlight charted by way of the stone-builders of historic Europe. . .the Greek perfect of the golden suggest in which they measured good looks. . . Combining historic truth with a retelling of historic myths and legends, this full of life and fascinating publication describes the old, non secular and geographical heritage that gave upward thrust to arithmetic in historic Egypt, Babylon, China, Greece, India, and the Arab global. each one bankruptcy incorporates a case examine the place arithmetic is utilized to the issues of the period, together with the world of triangles and quantity of the Egyptian pyramids; the Babylonian sexagesimal quantity method and our current degree of area and time which grew out of it; using the abacus and the rest thought in China; the discovery of trigonometry by way of Arab mathematicians; and the answer of quadratic equations by way of finishing the sq. built in India. those insightful commentaries will provide mathematicians and common historians a greater realizing of why and the way arithmetic arose from the issues of lifestyle, whereas the author's effortless, obtainable writing sort will open interesting chapters within the historical past of arithmetic to a large viewers of normal readers.
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