Women, Culture and Geometry in Southern Africa - 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 Women, Culture and Geometry in Southern Africa write by Paulus Gerdes. This book was released on 2013. Women, Culture and Geometry in Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New edition of award winning book "Women and Geometry in Southern Africa: Suggestions for Further Research", published by the "Universidade Pedagógica" (Mozambique) in 1995. The original book contains chapters on geometrical ideas embedded in basket weaving, bead work, wall decoration, tattooing, and ceramics. The expanded edition includes a foreword by Sibusiso Moyo (Secretary of the African Mathematical Union Commission on Women in Mathematics in Africa, and Research Director of the Durban University of Technology, South Africa), afterwords by Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (Brazil) and Jens Hoyrup (Denmark), and the papers "Makwe colour inversion, symmetry and patterns" (Northeastern Mozambique) and "Symmetries on mats woven by Yombe women from the area along the Lower Congo." The book contains also a chapter written by Salimo Saide on the geometry of pottery decoration among Yao women (Nyassa Province, Mozambique). (2013, 276 pp.)
Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa
Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa - 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 Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa write by Paulus Gerdes. This book was released on 1998. Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The main objective of the book is to call attention to some mathematical ideas incorporated in the patterns invented by women in Southern Africa. An appreciation of these mathematical traditions may lead to their preservation, revival and development. Use of female art traditional forms has implications in the field of mathematics education.
Geometry from Africa
Geometry from Africa - 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 Geometry from Africa write by Paulus Gerdes. This book was released on 1999-09-30. Geometry from Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book draws on geometric ideas from cultural activities from Subsaharan Africa to develop mathematical reasoning.
Archaeology of Body and Thought
Archaeology of Body and Thought - 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 Archaeology of Body and Thought write by Tomasz Gralak. This book was released on 2024-03-07. Archaeology of Body and Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study explores what we as people can do with our bodies, what we can use them for, and how we can alter and understand them. With analysis based on artefacts found in graves, anthropomorphic images, and written sources, it considers the ways in which human groups from the Neolithic to the Migration Period have perceived and treated the body.
History of Mathematics in Africa: 2000-2011
History of Mathematics in Africa: 2000-2011 - 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 History of Mathematics in Africa: 2000-2011 write by Paulus Gerdes. This book was released on 2011. History of Mathematics in Africa: 2000-2011 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
