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Mathematics Across Cultures

The History of Non-Western Mathematics

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Helaine Selin

    1. Hampshire College, Amherst, USA

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Part of the book series: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science (SACH, volume 2)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Communicating Mathematics Across Culture and Time

    • Leigh N. Wood
    Pages 1-12

  3. Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnomathematics

    • Ron Eglash
    Pages 13-22

  4. East and West

    • Edwin J. Van Kley
    Pages 23-35

  5. Rationality and The Disunity of The Sciences

    • David Turnbull
    Pages 37-54

  6. Logics and Mathematics: Challenges Arising in Working Across Cultures

    • Helen Verran
    Pages 55-78

  7. A Historiographical Proposal for Non-Western Mathematics

    • Ubiratan D‘ambrosio
    Pages 79-92

  8. The Uses of Mathematics in Ancient Iraq, 6000–600 BC

    • Eleanor Robson
    Pages 93-113

  9. Egyptian Mathematics

    • James Ritter
    Pages 115-136

  10. Islamic Mathematics

    • Jacques Sesiano
    Pages 137-165

  11. The Hebrew Mathematical Tradition

    • Y. Tzvi Langermann, Shai Simonson
    Pages 167-188

  12. Inca Mathematics

    • Thomas E. Gilsdorf
    Pages 189-203

  13. Mesoamerican Mathematics

    • Michael P. Closs
    Pages 205-238

  14. The Ethnomathematics of The Sioux Tipi and Cone

    • Daniel Clark Orey
    Pages 239-252

  15. Traditional Mathematics in Pacific Cultures

    • Walter S. Sizer
    Pages 253-287

  16. Aboriginal Australian Mathematics: Disparate Mathematics of Land Ownership

    • Helen Verran
    Pages 289-311

  17. On Mathematical Ideas in Cultural Traditions of Central and Southern Africa

    • Paulus Gerdes
    Pages 313-343

  18. Accounting Mathematics in West Africa: Some Stories of Yoruba Number

    • Helen Verran
    Pages 345-371

  19. Chinese Mathematical Astronomy

    • Jean-Claude Martzloff
    Pages 373-407

  20. The Mathematical Accomplishments of Ancient Indian Mathematicians

    • T. K. Puttaswamy
    Pages 409-422
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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.

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`...the book is a worthwhile addition to the bookshelf of teachers of mathematics at any level. It provides a useful antidote to the notion that all mathematical ideas were developed in Western Europe and provides the teacher with a numerous example by which to convince students that, indeed, every culture has mathematics.'
Mathematical Reviews, 2002a

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  • Hampshire College, Amherst, USA

    Helaine Selin

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