Article ID: CBB000053448

Graphs in culture (II): A study in ethnomathematics (1988)

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Description Explores the tradition of figure tracing in the Angola/Zaire/Zambia region of Africa with regard to structure and processes of construction. The tradition embodies geometric and topographical ideas that belong in a global history of mathematics.


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Authors & Contributors
Cifoletti, Giovanna C.
Crippa, Davide
Halák, Jan
Tur, J. Soliveres
Charlotte Pollet
Ram, Sita Sundar
Journals
Historia Mathematica
Synthese
Science in Context
Médiévales
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Publishers
The Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute
Servizio Editoriale dell'Università di Siena
Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin
Garnet
Birkhäuser
Concepts
Algebra
Mathematics
Geometry
Equations and formulae
Philosophy of mathematics
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
People
Poincaré, Jules Henri
Peletier, Jacques
Pacioli, Luca
Descartes, René
Benedetto da Firenze
Anstice, Robert Richard
Time Periods
Medieval
16th century
Renaissance
19th century
17th century
Song Dynasty (China, 960-1279)
Places
Italy
Catalonia (Spain)
China
Soviet Union
India
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