Hoyrup (102 Ergebnisse)

Original brochure, stapled. Zustand: Gut. 37 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - A very good and clean copy. - From the text: In the post-Renaissance world, mathematics used for technical or administrative purposes utilizes resul…

Series: Science Networks Historical Studies, vol. 34. 8vo. xii, 482 pp. inscription by author and owner's name on fly leaf, figs. diags. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR; ownership signature of Barnabas Hughes. Very good +. Scarce. One of the first treatises on the abacus and the first to give algebra. This text translates into English a…

Original brochure. Zustand: Gut. 36 p., fig. A good and very clean copy. - Contents: Abu Bakr's mensurational material -- Related treatises -- Hero and pseudo-Hero -- Earlier parallels -- Demotic geometry -- The outcome -- Abbreviations and bibliography -- Appendix: schematization of results. - Wikipdia: Jens Egede Høyrup, born…

Original brochure. Zustand: Gut. 60 p., 26 fig. A good and very clean copy. - Contents: PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS -- FIRST-DEGREE PROBLEMS -- TMS XVI, N° 1 (3); TMS VII, N° 2 (7); VAT 8391, N° 3 (11) -- BASIC SECOND-DEGREE TECHNIQUES -- BM 13901 N° 1 (14); BM 13901 N° 2 (17); BM 13901 N° 14 (18); YBC 6967 (20); TMS IX, Parts A an…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book provides a unique perspective on the history of European algebra up to the advent of Viète and Descartes. The standard version of this history is written on the basis of a narrow and misleading source basis: the Latin translations of al-Khw…