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Athens, 2018. In English. Soft cover, 24 cm, 118 pp. ISBN: 978-618-83428-5-9.How does a 3700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet rewrite the history of Mathematics? What was Archimedes' approach for approximating pi? How is Ptolemy associated with the construction of the first analog computer? "Navigating the Paths of Mathematical Thinking: From Mesopotamia to Ancient Greece", a collection of the mathematical mysteries that troubled Babylonians and Greeks thousands of years ago, provides answers to all such questions.
The story of mathematics is nearly as old as that of humanity itself. Since antiquity, mathematics has been crucial to advances in science, engineering, and philosophy. From the notched bones of the early man to the mathematical progress brought about by settled agriculture in Mesopotamia and Egypt and the groundbreaking developments of ancient Greece and its Hellenistic empire, the history of mathematics is an extensive and impressive one. Although mathematics has today reached far beyond… Leer más
