Overview
A one-stop overview for recent scholarship in the field
A good selection of examples of sound practices in producing new scholarship
State-of-the-art papers in a range of fundamental topics and methods
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Surveys
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Studies
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
This book honors the career of historian of mathematics J.L. Berggren, his scholarship, and service to the broader community. The first part, of value to scholars, graduate students, and interested readers, is a survey of scholarship in the mathematical sciences in ancient Greece and medieval Islam. It consists of six articles (three by Berggren himself) covering research from the middle of the 20th century to the present. The remainder of the book contains studies by eminent scholars of the ancient and medieval mathematical sciences. They serve both as examples of the breadth of current approaches and topics, and as tributes to Berggren's interests by his friends and colleagues.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Alexandria, Through Baghdad
Book Subtitle: Surveys and Studies in the Ancient Greek and Medieval Islamic Mathematical Sciences in Honor of J.L. Berggren
Editors: Nathan Sidoli, Glen Van Brummelen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36736-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-36735-9Published: 12 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50748-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-36736-6Published: 30 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 583
Number of Illustrations: 137 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics, general