From China to Paris: 2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical Ideas

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Die Frage nach der Ubermittlung mathematischen Wissens zwischen verschiedenen Kulturen ist in den letzten Jahren zu einem Schwerpunkt mathematikhistorischer Untersuchungen geworden. Hierzu ist die Zusammenarbeit von Spezialisten erforderlich, die sich mit verschiedenen Kulturen, Sprachen und mathematischen Traditionen beschaftigen. Das vorliegende Buch, das Ergebnis von Tagungen im Mathematischen Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach und im Research and Conference Center der Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, behandelt die vielfaltigen Wege, die bei der Vermittlung mathematischen Wissens von den Babyloniern bis zum 17. Jahrhundert eingeschlagen wurden, und insbesondere den Austausch mathematischer Ideen von Indien uber China und die arabische Welt bis nach Westeuropa. Contents: K. Vogel: A Surveying Problem Travels from China to Paris - J. Hoyrup: Seleucid Innovations in the Babylonian oAlgebraico Tradition and their Kin Abroad - J. L. Berggren: Some Ancient and Medieval Approximations to Irrational Numbers and Their Transmission - J. Sesiano: A Reconstruction of Greek Multiplication Tables for Integers - A. Breard: Problems of Pursuit: Recreational Mathematics or Astronomy? - K. Chemla / A. Keller: The Sanskrit karanis and the Chinese mian - S. R. Sarma: Rule of Three and its Variations in India - L. Dun: A Homecoming Stranger: Transmission of the Method of Double False Position and the Story of Hiero's Crown - K. Plofker: Use and Transmission of Iterative Approximations in India and the Islamic World - J. P. Hogendijk: Anthyphairetic Ratio Theory in Medieval Islamic Mathematics - U. Rebstock: An Early Link of the Arabic Tradition of Practical Arithmetic: The Kitab al -Thadhkira bi-usul al-hisab wa 'l-fara'id wa-'awliha wa-tashihiha - A. Djebbar: La circulation des mathematiques entre l'Orient et l'Occident musulmans: Interrogations anciennes et elements nouveaux - C. Burnett: Indian Numerals in the Mediterranean Basin in the Twelfth Century, with Special Reference to the oEastern Formso - R. Franci: Jealous Husbands Crossing the River: A Problem from Alcuin to Tartaglia - T. Levy: De l'arabe a l'hebreu: la constitution de la litterature mathematique hebraique (XIIe-XVIe siecle) - B. van Dalen: Islamic and Chinese Astronomy under the Mongols: a Little-Known Case of Transmission - M. Bagheri: A New Treatise by al-Kashi on the Depression of the Visible Horizon - A. Volkov: On the Origins of the Toan phap dai thanh (Great Compendium of Mathematical Methods) - M. Folkerts: Regiomontanus' Role in the Transmission of Mathematical Problems - D. Pingree: Philippe de la Hire's Planetary Theories in Sanskrit. (Franz Steiner 2002)

Author(s): Benno van Dalen, Joseph W. Dauben, Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Menso Folkerts
Series: Boethius. Texte und Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Year: 2002

Language: English
Pages: 470

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Kurt Vogel: A Surveying Problem Travels from China to Paris......Page 12
Jens Hoyrup: Seleucid Innovations in the Babylonian "Algebraic" Tradition and their Kin Abmad......Page 20
J. Lennart Berggren: Some Ancient and Medieval Approximations to Irrational Numbers and Their Transmission......Page 42
Jacques Sesiano: A Reconstruction of Greek Multiplication Tables for Integers......Page 56
An-lrea Rr ard Problems of Pursuit- Recreational Mathematics or Astronomy?......Page 68
Karine Chemla & Agathe Keller: The Sanskrit karanis and the Chinese mian......Page 98
Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma: Rule of Three and its Variations in India......Page 144
Liu Dun: A Homecoming Stranger: Transmission of the Method of Double False Position and the Story of Hiero's Crown......Page 168
Kim Plofker: Use and Transmission of Iterative Approximations in India and the Islamic World......Page 178
Jan P. Hogendijk: Anthyphairetic Ratio Theory in Medieval Islamic Mathematics......Page 198
Ulrich Rebstock: An Early Link of the Arabic Tradition of Practical Arithmetic: The Kitab al-Tadhkira bi-usul al-hisab wa'I-fara'id wa-'awlihd wa-tashihiha......Page 214
Ahmed Djebbar: La circulation des mathematiques entre l'Orient et ('Occident musulmans: Interrogations anciennes et elements nouveaux......Page 224
Charles Burnett: Indian Numerals in the Mediterranean Basin in the Twelfth Century, with Special Reference to the "Eastern Forms"......Page 248
Raffaella Franci: Jealous Husbands Crossing the River: A Problem from Alcuin to Tartaglia......Page 300
Tony Levy: De I'arabe a l'hebreu: la constitution de la litterature mathematique hebrafque ()GIe-XVIe siecle)......Page 318
Benno van Dalen: Islamic and Chinese Astronomy under the Mongols: a Little-Known Case of Transmission......Page 338
Mohammad Bagheri: A New Treatise by al-Kasha on the Depression of the Visible Horizon......Page 368
Alexei Volkov: On the Origins of the Toan phap dai thanh (Great Compendium of Mathematical Methods)......Page 380
Menso Folkerts: Regiomontanus' Role in the Transmission of Mathematical Problems......Page 422
David Pingree: Philippe de la Hire's Planetary Theories in Sanskrit......Page 440
Index of Proper Names......Page 466
Contributors......Page 480
Back Cover......Page 481