Chapter ID: CBB000203451

Some Ancient and Medieval Approximations to Irrational Numbers and Their Transmission (2002)

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Authors & Contributors
Herrmann, Dietmar
Zellini, Paolo
Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla
Shnider, Steven
Schwermer, Joachim
Schaps, David M.
Journals
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Synthese
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Perspectives on Science
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Springer Spektrum
New School University
UTET
Princeton University Press
Oxford University Press
European Mathematical Society
Concepts
Mathematics
Number theory; number concept
Irrational numbers
Transmission of ideas
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Numbers
People
Plato
Diophantos of Alexandria
Langlands, Robert
Bashmakova, Isabella Grigoryevna
Fermat, Pierre de
Vicentino, Nicola
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Early modern
Modern
Renaissance
20th century
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Mesopotamia
Middle and Near East
Europe
Egypt
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