Selin, Helaine (Editor)
Kluwer Academic
Physical Details: xx + 479 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English
Description Contents: Leigh N. Wood: Communicating Mathematics Across Culture and Time; Ron Eglash: Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnomathematics; Edwin J. Van Kley: East and West; David Turnbull: Rationality and the Disunity of the Sciences; Helen Verran: Logics and Mathematics: Challenges Arising in Working Across Cultures; Ubiratan D'ambrosio: A Historiographical Proposal for Non-Western Mathematics; Eleanor Robson: The Uses of Mathematics in Ancient Iraq, 6000-600 BC; James Ritter: Egyptian Mathematics; Jacques Sesiano: Islamic Mathematics; Y. Tzvi Langermann; Shai Simonson: The Hebrew Mathematical Tradition; Thomas E. Gilsdorf: Inca Mathematics; Michael P. Closs: Mesoamerican Mathematics; Daniel Clark Orey: The Ethnomathematics of the Sioux Tipi and Cone; Walter S. Sizer: Traditional Mathematics in Pacific Cultures; Helen Verran: Aboriginal Australian Mathematics: Disparate Mathematics of Land Ownership; Paulus Gerdes: On Mathematical Ideas in Cultural Traditions of Central and Southern Africa; Helen Verran: Accounting Mathematics in West Africa: Some Stories of Yoruba Number; Jean-Claude Martzloff: Chinese Mathematical Astronomy; T. K. Puttaswamy: The Mathematical Accomplishments of Ancient Indian Mathematicians; Jochi Shigeru: The Dawn of Wasan (Japanese Mathematics); Soo Hwan Kim: Development of Materials for Ethnomathematics in Korea.
Review Plofker, Kim (2005) Review of "Mathematics Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 102).
Review Ascher, Marcia (2003) Review of "Mathematics Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 128).
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