Author: Florian Cajori
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040753616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
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William Oughtred
Author: Florian Cajori
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040753616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040753616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Mr William Oughtred's Key of the Mathematicks newly translated [by E. Halley] from the best edition with notes; ... in which also some problems unanswer'd by the author are resolv'd, etc
Author: William Oughtred
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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William Oughtred
Author: Florian Cajori
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematicians
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-century Teacher Of Mathematics; Cornell University Library Historical Math Monographs Florian Cajori The Open court publishing company, 1916 Mathematicians; Mathematics
Publisher:
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Category : Mathematicians
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-century Teacher Of Mathematics; Cornell University Library Historical Math Monographs Florian Cajori The Open court publishing company, 1916 Mathematicians; Mathematics
A Discourse Concerning Algebra
Author: Jacqueline A. Stedall
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191545759
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
For historians of mathematics and those interested in the history of science, 'A Discourse Concerning Algebra' provides an new and readable account of the rise of algebra in England from the Medieval period to the later years of the 17th century. Including new research, this is the most detailed study to date of early modern English algebra, which builds on work published in 1685 by John Wallis (Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford) on the history of algebra. Stedall's book follows the reception and dissemination of important algebraic ideas and methods from continental Europe (especially those of Viéte) and the consequent revolution in the state of English mathematics in the 17th century. The text emphasises the contribution of Wallis, but substantial reference is also provided to other important mathematicans such as Harriot, Oughtred, Pell and Brouncker.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191545759
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
For historians of mathematics and those interested in the history of science, 'A Discourse Concerning Algebra' provides an new and readable account of the rise of algebra in England from the Medieval period to the later years of the 17th century. Including new research, this is the most detailed study to date of early modern English algebra, which builds on work published in 1685 by John Wallis (Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford) on the history of algebra. Stedall's book follows the reception and dissemination of important algebraic ideas and methods from continental Europe (especially those of Viéte) and the consequent revolution in the state of English mathematics in the 17th century. The text emphasises the contribution of Wallis, but substantial reference is also provided to other important mathematicans such as Harriot, Oughtred, Pell and Brouncker.
The Ciphers of the Monks
Author: David A. King
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN: 9783515076401
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive study of an ingenious number-notation from the Middle Ages that was devised by monks and mainly used in monasteries. A simple notation for representing any number up to 99 by a single cipher, somehow related to an ancient Greek shorthand, first appeared in early-13th-century England, brought from Athens by an English monk. A second, more useful version, due to Cistercian monks, is first attested in the late 13th century in what is today the border country between Belgium and France: with this any number up to 9999 can be represented by a single cipher. The ciphers were used in scriptoria - for the foliation of manuscripts, for writing year-numbers, preparing indexes and concordances, numbering sermons and the like, and outside the scriptoria - for marking the scales on an astronomical instrument, writing year-numbers in astronomical tables, and for incising volumes on wine-barrels. Related notations were used in medieval and Renaissance shorthands and coded scripts. This richly-illustrated book surveys the medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books in which the ciphers occur, and takes a close look at an intriguing astrolabe from 14th-century Picardy marked with ciphers. With Indices. "Mit Kings luzider Beschreibung und Bewertung der einzelnen Funde und ihrer Beziehungen wird zugleich die Forschungsgeschichte - die bis dato durch Widerspruechlichkeit und Diskontinuit�t gepr�gt ist - umfassend aufgearbeitet." Zeitschrift fuer Germanistik.
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN: 9783515076401
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive study of an ingenious number-notation from the Middle Ages that was devised by monks and mainly used in monasteries. A simple notation for representing any number up to 99 by a single cipher, somehow related to an ancient Greek shorthand, first appeared in early-13th-century England, brought from Athens by an English monk. A second, more useful version, due to Cistercian monks, is first attested in the late 13th century in what is today the border country between Belgium and France: with this any number up to 9999 can be represented by a single cipher. The ciphers were used in scriptoria - for the foliation of manuscripts, for writing year-numbers, preparing indexes and concordances, numbering sermons and the like, and outside the scriptoria - for marking the scales on an astronomical instrument, writing year-numbers in astronomical tables, and for incising volumes on wine-barrels. Related notations were used in medieval and Renaissance shorthands and coded scripts. This richly-illustrated book surveys the medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books in which the ciphers occur, and takes a close look at an intriguing astrolabe from 14th-century Picardy marked with ciphers. With Indices. "Mit Kings luzider Beschreibung und Bewertung der einzelnen Funde und ihrer Beziehungen wird zugleich die Forschungsgeschichte - die bis dato durch Widerspruechlichkeit und Diskontinuit�t gepr�gt ist - umfassend aufgearbeitet." Zeitschrift fuer Germanistik.
Geometrical Landscapes
Author: Amir R. Alexander
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804732604
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This challenging book argues that a new way of speaking of mathematics and describing it emerged at the end of the 16th century. Leading mathematicians began referring to their field in terms drawn from the exploration accounts of Columbus and Magellan. Many of those who promoted the vision of mathematics as heroic exploration also played central roles in developing the most important mathematical innovation of the period?the infinitesimal methods, which the author shows was no coincidence.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804732604
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This challenging book argues that a new way of speaking of mathematics and describing it emerged at the end of the 16th century. Leading mathematicians began referring to their field in terms drawn from the exploration accounts of Columbus and Magellan. Many of those who promoted the vision of mathematics as heroic exploration also played central roles in developing the most important mathematical innovation of the period?the infinitesimal methods, which the author shows was no coincidence.
Lives: Ingelbert to York ; Appendix I: Aubrey's notes of antiquities ; Appendix II: Aubrey's comedy The countrey revell
Author: John Aubrey
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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'Brief Lives': I-Y
Author: John Aubrey
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
́Brief Lives ́, chiefly of Contemporaries, between the Years 1669 & 1696
Author: John Aubrey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734080355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: ́Brief Lives ́, chiefly of Contemporaries, between the Years 1669 & 1696 by John Aubrey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734080355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: ́Brief Lives ́, chiefly of Contemporaries, between the Years 1669 & 1696 by John Aubrey
From Discrete to Continuous
Author: K. Neal
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940170077X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
In the early modern period, a crucial transformation occurred in the classical conception of number and magnitude. Traditionally, numbers were merely collections of discrete units that measured some multiple. Magnitude, on the other hand, was usually described as being continuous, or being divisible into parts that are infinitely divisible. This traditional idea of discrete number versus continuous magnitude was challenged in the early modern period in several ways. This detailed study explores how the development of algebraic symbolism, logarithms, and the growing practical demands for an expanded number concept all contributed to a broadening of the number concept in early modern England. An interest in solving practical problems was not, in itself, enough to cause a generalisation of the number concept. It was the combined impact of novel practical applications together with the concomitant development of such mathematical advances as algebraic notation and logarithms that produced a broadened number concept.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940170077X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
In the early modern period, a crucial transformation occurred in the classical conception of number and magnitude. Traditionally, numbers were merely collections of discrete units that measured some multiple. Magnitude, on the other hand, was usually described as being continuous, or being divisible into parts that are infinitely divisible. This traditional idea of discrete number versus continuous magnitude was challenged in the early modern period in several ways. This detailed study explores how the development of algebraic symbolism, logarithms, and the growing practical demands for an expanded number concept all contributed to a broadening of the number concept in early modern England. An interest in solving practical problems was not, in itself, enough to cause a generalisation of the number concept. It was the combined impact of novel practical applications together with the concomitant development of such mathematical advances as algebraic notation and logarithms that produced a broadened number concept.