Numbers: A Cultural History

Mathematics is often referred to as a universal language, and that is a fitting description. Many cultures...
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Author: Robert Kiely
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Numbers: A Cultural History by Kiely, Robert

Numbers: A Cultural History

$313.33

Numbers: A Cultural History

$313.33
Author: Robert Kiely
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Mathematics is often referred to as a universal language, and that is a fitting description. Many cultures have contributed to mathematics in fascinating ways, but despite its universal character, mathematics is also a human endeavor. It has played pivotal roles in societies at particular times; and it has influenced, and been influenced by, a wide range of ideas and institutions, from commerce to philosophy. Ancient Egyptian views of mathematics, for example, are tied closely to engineering and agriculture. Some European Renaissance views, on the other hand, relate the study of number to that of the natural world.

Numbers, A Cultural History seeks to place the history of mathematics into a broad cultural context. While it treats mathematical material in detail, it also relates that material to other subject matter: science, philosophy, navigation, commerce, religion, art, and architecture. It examines how mathematical thinking grows in specific cultural settings and how it has shaped those settings in turn. It also explores the movement of ideas between cultures and the evolution of modern mathematics and the quantitative, data-driven world in which we live.



Author: Robert Kiely
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 08/04/2022
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.14w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781440869334


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/2022 pg. 5

About the Author

Robert Kiely, PhD, teaches the history of ideas in the liberal arts department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.


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