The Babylonian Theorem: The Mathematical Journey to Pythagoras and Euclid (USED)

Description: Product Description : The Babylonian Theorem: The Mathematical Journey to Pythagoras and Euclid A physicist explores the history of mathematics among the Babylonians and Egyptians showing how their scribes in the era from 2000 to 1600 BCE used visualizations of plane geometric figures to invent geometric algebra even solving problems that we now do by quadratic algebra Rudman traces the evolution of mathematics from the metric geometric algebra of Babylon and Egyptwhich used numeric quantities on diagrams as a means to work out problemsto the nonmetric geometric algebra of Euclid ca 300 BCE From his analysis of Babylonian geometric algebra the author formulates a Babylonian Theorem which he demonstrates was used to derive the Pythagorean Theorem about a millennium before its purported discovery by PythagorasHe also concludes that what enabled the Greek mathematicians to surpass their predecessors was the insertion of alphabetic notation onto geometric figures Such symbolic notation was natural for users of an alphabetic language but was impossible for the Babylonians and Egyptians whose writing systems cuneiform and hieroglyphics respectively were not alphabetic This is a masterful fascinating and entertaining book which will interest both math enthusiasts and students of history( it is an used product )

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