From China to Paris
Subtitle: 2000 years transmission of mathematical ideas
By: edited by Yvonne Dold-Samplonius ... [et al.].
Contributors: Dold-Samplonius, Yvonne.
Series: Boethius -- Bd. 46; Boethius (Series) -- Bd. 46.
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 467
Subjects: Mathematics -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: The reports of a conference of 11 scholars who began the task of examing together primary sources that might shed som elight on exactly how and in what fomrs mathematical problems, concepts, and techniques may have been transmitted between various civilizations, from antiquity down to the European Renaissance following more or less the legendary silk routes between China and Western Europe.
Notes: Papers originally presented at a conference held in May 2000 in Bellagio, Italy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.