Heavenly Mathematics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heavenly Mathematics write by Glen Van Brummelen. This book was released on 2017-04-04. Heavenly Mathematics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Spherical trigonometry was at the heart of astronomy and ocean-going navigation for two millennia. The discipline was a mainstay of mathematics education for centuries, and it was a standard subject in high schools until the 1950s. Today, however, it is rarely taught. Heavenly Mathematics traces the rich history of this forgotten art, revealing how the cultures of classical Greece, medieval Islam, and the modern West used spherical trigonometry to chart the heavens and the Earth."--Jacket.
The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth
The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth write by Glen Van Brummelen. This book was released on 2009. The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth is the first major history in English of the origins and early development of trigonometry. Glen Van Brummelen identifies the earliest known trigonometric precursors in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Greece, and he examines the revolutionary discoveries of Hipparchus, the Greek astronomer believed to have been the first to make systematic use of trigonometry in the second century BC while studying the motions of the stars. The book traces trigonometry's development into a full-fledged mathematical discipline in India and Islam; explores its applications to such areas as geography and seafaring navigation in the European Middle Ages and Renaissance; and shows how trigonometry retained its ancient roots at the same time that it became an important part of the foundation of modern mathematics. The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth looks at the controversies as well, including disputes over whether Hipparchus was indeed the father of trigonometry, whether Indian trigonometry is original or derived from the Greeks, and the extent to which Western science is indebted to Islamic trigonometry and astronomy. The book also features extended excerpts of translations of original texts, and detailed yet accessible explanations of the mathematics in them. No other book on trigonometry offers the historical breadth, analytical depth, and coverage of non-Western mathematics that readers will find in The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth.
Heaven Engine
Heaven Engine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heaven Engine write by Albert Clarkson. This book was released on 2004-08-30. Heaven Engine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A future of designer humans, smart machines, protean technology. Our dwindled descendents exiled to large space stations visit Cleansed Earth occasionally for gravity- and sensory-deprivation therapy. Human longevity, at last attained, ironically creates a Great Plague of Suicidal Despair, Disnovelling, born of the intruding longer prospect of bloody Nature and of the impersonal hurtling cosmic vastitudes. Centwen, a resurrected twentieth century archetype joined by elites and archetypes from other centuries, learns from his tour guides, the superbot, Prodigy, and its human creator, Great Psychodor, about a last-chance project to create not a mythical but a secular, dynamic, intelligent Heaven; and, if it succeeds, whether or not transformed humans and/or their intelligent machines can escape to it.
The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach: Volume 1
The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach: Volume 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach: Volume 1 write by June Barrow-Green. This book was released on 2019-05-08. The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach: Volume 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach is a comprehensive history of the development of mathematics. This, the first volume of the two-volume set, takes readers from the beginning of counting in prehistory to 1600 and the threshold of the discovery of calculus. It is notable for the extensive engagement with original—primary and secondary—source material. The coverage is worldwide, and embraces developments, including education, in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, China, India, the Islamic world and Europe. The emphasis on astronomy and its historical relationship to mathematics is new, and the presentation of every topic is informed by the most recent scholarship in the field. The two-volume set was designed as a textbook for the authors' acclaimed year-long course at the Open University. It is, in addition to being an innovative and insightful textbook, an invaluable resource for students and scholars of the history of mathematics. The authors, each among the most distinguished mathematical historians in the world, have produced over fifty books and earned scholarly and expository prizes from the major mathematical societies of the English-speaking world.
A History of Greek Mathematics
A History of Greek Mathematics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Greek Mathematics write by Sir Thomas Little Heath. This book was released on 1921. A History of Greek Mathematics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
