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Sherlock Holmes in Babylon: And Other Tales of Mathematical History (Spectrum) by Marlow Anderson, Victor J. Katz, Robin J. Wilson, Robert Creighton Buck, Eleanor Robson, Max Dehn, J. D. Swift, A. W. Richeson, Michael A. B. Deakin, Frank Swetz, Jr, Philip D. Straffin, Eells, Walter Crosby, Marcia Ascher, Ranjan Roy, David M. Bressoud, R.B. McClenon, Barbara E. Reynolds, Martin A. Nordgaard, Abraham Arcavi, Maxim Bruckheimer, David Eugene Smith, V. Frederick Rickey, Philip M. Tuchinsky, E. A. Whitman, Judith Grabiner, David Dennis, Ernst Hellinger, Judith V. Grabiner, Paul R. Wolfson, Josef Ehrenfried Hofmann, Bruce Pourciau, Carl B. Boyer, Chris Christensen, Jere Confrey, P. S. Jones, William Dunham, J.J. Burckhardt, J. L. Coolidge, Jesper Lützen, Anthony P. Ferzola, Harold M. Edwards is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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At some point in history, abstract mathematics appeared. Sketchy histories tend to emphasize the role of the Greeks, which was substantial, but their ideas did not sprout from the mathematical equivalent of nothingness. Before there was Greek mathematics, the Babylonians and Egyptians were doing a good deal of mathematics. For this reason, I was pleased to see that the first few papers in this collection deal with Babylonian mathematics, and the title of the book is taken from the title of the first one. The book is divided into four sections: ancient mathematics, medieval and renaissance mathematics, the seventeenth century and the eighteenth century. Most of the papers examine a specific concept of mathematics as well as the people who developed it. The papers first appeared in mathematics journals such as "College Mathematics Journal" and "American Mathematical Monthly", over the last century. One paper by Florian Cajori appeared in 1917 and one by Eleanor Robson was published in 2002. A wide range of topics are covered in the papers of this collection and some early papers examine the development of mathematics in non-western cultures such as China, the number systems of No

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Author

Marlow Anderson, Victor J. Katz, Robin J. Wilson, Robert Creighton Buck, Eleanor Robson, Max Dehn, J. D. Swift, A. W. Richeson, Michael A. B. Deakin, Frank Swetz, Jr, Philip D. Straffin, Eells, Walter Crosby, Marcia Ascher, Ranjan Roy, David M. Bressoud, R.B. McClenon, Barbara E. Reynolds, Martin A. Nordgaard, Abraham Arcavi, Maxim Bruckheimer, David Eugene Smith, V. Frederick Rickey, Philip M. Tuchinsky, E. A. Whitman, Judith Grabiner, David Dennis, Ernst Hellinger, Judith V. Grabiner, Paul R. Wolfson, Josef Ehrenfried Hofmann, Bruce Pourciau, Carl B. Boyer, Chris Christensen, Jere Confrey, P. S. Jones, William Dunham, J.J. Burckhardt, J. L. Coolidge, Jesper Lützen, Anthony P. Ferzola, Harold M. Edwards

Publisher

The Mathematical Association of America

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781614445036

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Mathematics, History

Updated

2026-03-24