Mathematics Across Cultures
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Mathematics Across Cultures
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Author : Helaine Selin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Mathematics Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Mathematics categories.
Mathematics Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Mathematics consists of essays dealing with the mathematical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Inca, Egyptian, and African mathematics, among others, the book includes essays on Rationality, Logic and Mathematics, and the transfer of knowledge from East to West. The essays address the connections between science and culture and relate the mathematical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.
Mathematics Across Cultures
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Author : Helaine Selin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-09-01
Mathematics Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Mathematics categories.
Mathematics Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Mathematics consists of essays dealing with the mathematical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Inca, Egyptian, and African mathematics, among others, the book includes essays on Rationality, Logic and Mathematics, and the transfer of knowledge from East to West. The essays address the connections between science and culture and relate the mathematical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.
Math Across Cultures
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Author : Maurice Bazin
language : en
Publisher: Exploratorium Store
Release Date : 1995-01-01
Math Across Cultures written by Maurice Bazin and has been published by Exploratorium Store this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Mathematics categories.
Math And Science Across Cultures
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Author : Maurice Bazin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Math And Science Across Cultures written by Maurice Bazin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Mathematics categories.
From the creators of the bestselling "The Explorabook" come innovative, hands-on math and science activities of many cultures. With instructions in this book, one can construct a Brazilian carnival instrument, play a peg solitaire game from Madagascar, or count like an Egyptian. Illustrations throughout.
Mathematics Elsewhere
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Author : Marcia Ascher
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Mathematics Elsewhere written by Marcia Ascher and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Mathematics categories.
Mathematics Elsewhere is a fascinating and important contribution to a global view of mathematics. Presenting mathematical ideas of peoples from a variety of small-scale and traditional cultures, it humanizes our view of mathematics and expands our conception of what is mathematical. Through engaging examples of how particular societies structure time, reach decisions about the future, make models and maps, systematize relationships, and create intriguing figures, Marcia Ascher demonstrates that traditional cultures have mathematical ideas that are far more substantial and sophisticated than is generally acknowledged. Malagasy divination rituals, for example, rely on complex algebraic algorithms. And some cultures use calendars far more abstract and elegant than our own. Ascher also shows that certain concepts assumed to be universal--that time is a single progression, for instance, or that equality is a static relationship--are not. The Basque notion of equivalence, for example, is a dynamic and temporal one not adequately captured by the familiar equal sign. Other ideas taken to be the exclusive province of professionally trained Western mathematicians are, in fact, shared by people in many societies. The ideas discussed come from geographically varied cultures, including the Borana and Malagasy of Africa, the Tongans and Marshall Islanders of Oceania, the Tamil of South India, the Basques of Western Europe, and the Balinese and Kodi of Indonesia. This book belongs on the shelves of mathematicians, math students, and math educators, and in the hands of anyone interested in traditional societies or how people think. Illustrating how mathematical ideas play a vital role in diverse human endeavors from navigation to social interaction to religion, it offers--through the vehicle of mathematics--unique cultural encounters to any reader.
Math And Science Across Cultures
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Author : Maurice Bazin
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2002
Math And Science Across Cultures written by Maurice Bazin and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Science categories.
From the creators of the bestselling "The Explorabook" come innovative, hands-on math and science activities of many cultures. With instructions in this book, one can construct a Brazilian carnival instrument, play a peg solitaire game from Madagascar, or count like an Egyptian. Illustrations throughout.
Cultures Of Mathematics And Logic
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Author : Shier Ju
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2016-08-10
Cultures Of Mathematics And Logic written by Shier Ju and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-10 with Mathematics categories.
This book gathers the proceedings of the conference "Cultures of Mathematics and Logic," held in Guangzhou, China. The event was the third in a series of interdisciplinary, international conferences emphasizing the cultural components of philosophy of mathematics and logic. It brought together researchers from many disciplines whose work sheds new light on the diversity of mathematical and logical cultures and practices. In this context, the cultural diversity can be diachronical (different cultures in different historical periods), geographical (different cultures in different regions), or sociological in nature.
Ethnomathematics
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Author : Marcia Ascher
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 1994-05-01
Ethnomathematics written by Marcia Ascher and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-05-01 with Mathematics categories.
In this truly one-of-a-kind book, Ascher introduces the mathematical ideas of people in traditional, or "small-scale", cultures often omitted from discussion of mathematics. Topics such as "Numbers: Words and Symbols", "Tracing Graphs in the Sand", "The Logic of Kin Relations", "Chance and Strategy in Games and Puzzles", and "The Organization and Modeling of Space" are traced in various cultures including the Inuit, Navajo, and Iroquois of North America; the Inca of South America; the Malekula, Warlpiri, Maori, and Caroline Islanders of Oceania, and the Tshokwe, Bushoong, and Kpelle of Africa. As Ascher explores mathematical ideas involving numbers, logic, spatial configuration, and the organization of these into systems and structures, readers gain both a broader understanding and anappreciation for the idease of other peoples.
Ethnomathematics
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Author : Ubiratan D'Ambrosio
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Ethnomathematics written by Ubiratan D'Ambrosio and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Education categories.
In this book, Ubiratan D’Ambrosio presents his most recent thoughts on ethnomathematics—a sub-field of mathematics history and mathematics education for which he is widely recognized to be one of the founding fathers.
Mathematics Education In Different Cultural Traditions A Comparative Study Of East Asia And The West
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Author : Frederick Koon-Shing Leung
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-08-02
Mathematics Education In Different Cultural Traditions A Comparative Study Of East Asia And The West written by Frederick Koon-Shing Leung and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-02 with Education categories.
The idea of the ICMI Study 13 is outlined as follows: Education in any social environment is influenced in many ways by the traditions of these environments. This study brings together leading experts to research and report on mathematics education in a global context. Mathematics education faces a split phenomenon of difference and correspondence. A study attempting a comparison between mathematics education in different traditions will be helpful to understanding this phenomenon.