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|a Rudman, Peter Strom.
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|a How mathematics happened :
|b the first 50,000 years /
|c Peter S. Rudman.
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|a Amherst, N.Y. :
|b Prometheus Books,
|c 2007.
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|a Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-308) and index.
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|t List of figures --
|t List of tables --
|t Preface --
|g 1.
|t Introduction --
|g 1.1.
|t Mathematical Darwinism --
|g 1.2. The
|t replacement concept --
|g 1.3.
|t Number systems --
|g 2. The
|t birth of arithmetic --
|g 2.1.
|t Pattern recognition evolves into counting --
|g 2.2.
|t Counting in hunter-gatherer cultures --
|g 3.
|t Pebble counting evolves into written numbers --
|g 3.1.
|t Herder-farmer and urban cultures in the valley of the Nile --
|g 3.2.
|t Herder-farmer and urban cultures by the waters of Babylon --
|g 3.3.
|t In the jungles of the Maya --
|g 4.
|t Mathematics in the valley of the Nile --
|g 4.1.
|t Egyptian multiplication --
|g 4.2.
|t Egyptian fractions --
|g 4.3.
|t Egyptian algebra --
|g 4.4.
|t Pyramidiots --
|g 5.
|t Mathematics by the waters of Babylon --
|g 5.1.
|t Babylonian multiplication --
|g 5.2.
|t Babylonian fractions --
|g 5.3.
|t Plimpton 322, the enigma --
|g 5.4.
|t Babylonian algebra --
|g 5.5.
|t Babylonian calculation of square root of 2 --
|g 6.
|t Mathematics attains maturity : rigorous proof --
|g 6.1.
|t Pythagoras --
|g 6.2.
|t Eratosthenes --
|g 6.3.
|t Hippasus --
|g 7.
|t We learn history to be able to repeat it --
|g 7.1.
|t Teaching mathematics in ancient Greece and how we should but do not --
|t Appendix : Answers to fun questions --
|t Notes and references --
|t Index.
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|z Egypt
|x History.
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