Mathematics across cultures
Subtitle: the history of non-western mathematics
By: editor, Helaine Selin ; advisory editor, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio.
Contributors: Selin, Helaine, 1946-
Series: Science across cultures : the history of non-western science -- v. 2; Science across cultures -- v. 2.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9780792364818
Subjects: Mathematics -- History; Ethnomathematics; Mathematics, Ancient
Other titles: History of non-western mathematics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Communicating mathematics across culture and time -- Leigh N. Wood; title: Anthropological perspectives on ethnomathematics -- Ron Eglash; title: East and West -- Edwin J. Van Kley; title: Rationality and the disunity of the sciences -- David Turnbull; title: Logics and mathematics : challenges arising in working across cultures -- Helen Verran; title: A historiographical proposal for non-Western mathematics -- Ubiratan D'Ambrosio; title: The uses of mathematics in ancient Iraq, 6000-600 BC -- Eleanor Robson; title: Egyptian mathematics -- James Ritter; title: Islamic mathematics -- Jacques Sesiano; title: The Hebrew mathematical tradition -- Y. Tzvi Langermann -- and -- Shai Simonson -- Inca mathematics / -- Thomas E. Gilsdorf; title: Mesoamerican mathematics -- Michael P. Closs; title: The ethnomathematics of the Sioux tipi and cone -- Daniel Clark Orey; title: Traditional mathematics in Pacific cultures -- Walter S. Sizer; title: Aboriginal Australian mathematics : disparate mathematics of land ownership -- Helen Verran; title: On mathematical ideas in cultural traditions of central and southern Africa -- Paulus Gerdes; title: Accounting mathematics in West Africa : some stories of Yoruba number -- Helen Verran; title: Chinese mathematical astronomy -- Jean-Claude Martzloff; title: The mathematical accomplishments of ancient Indian mathematicians -- T.K. Puttaswamy; title: The dawn of Wasan (Japanese mathematics) -- Jochi Shigeru; title: Development of materials for ethnomathematics in Korea-- Kim, Soo Hwan.