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Ludic Proof

Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic

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Ludic Proof

Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic

By: Reviel Netz

This book represents a new departure in science studies: an analysis of a scientific style of writing, situating it within the context of the contemporary style of literature. Its philosophical significance is that it provides a novel way of making sense of the notion of a scientific style. For the first time, the Hellenistic mathematical corpus - one of the most substantial extant for the period - is placed centre-stage in the discussion of Hellenistic culture as a whole. Professor Netz argues that Hellenistic mathematical writings adopt a narrative strategy based on surprise, a compositional form based on a mosaic of apparently unrelated elements, and a carnivalesque profusion of detail. He further investigates how such stylistic preferences derive from, and throw light on, the style of Hellenistic poetry. This important book will be welcomed by all scholars of Hellenistic civilization as well as historians of ancient science and Western mathematics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009069802

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9781009069809

The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World

From Problems to Equations

By: Reviel Netz

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The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World

From Problems to Equations

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The transformation of mathematics from ancient Greece to the medieval Arab-speaking world is here approached by focusing on a single problem proposed by Archimedes and the many solutions offered. In this trajectory Reviel Netz follows the change in the task from solving a geometrical problem to its expression as an equation, still formulated geometrically, and then on to an algebraic problem, now handled by procedures that are more like rules of manipulation. From a practice of mathematics based on the localized solution (and grounded in the polemical practices of early Greek science) we see a transition to a practice of mathematics based on the systematic approach (and grounded in the deuteronomic practices of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages). With three chapters ranging chronologically from Hellenistic mathematics, through late Antiquity, to the medieval world, Reviel Netz offers an alternate interpretation of the historical journey of pre-modern mathematics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107320542

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Barbed Wire

An Ecology of Modernity

By: Reviel Netz

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Barbed Wire

An Ecology of Modernity

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The history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire. In this original and controversial book, historian and philosopher Reviel Netz explores the development of a controlling and pain-inducing technology—barbed wire. Surveying its development from 1874 to 1954, Netz describes its use to control cattle during the colonization of the American West and to control people in Nazi concentration camps and the Russian Gulag. Physical control over space was no longer symbolic after 1874. This is a history told from the perspective of its victims. With vivid examples of the interconnectedness of humans, animals, and the environment, this dramatic account of barbed wire presents modern history through the lens of motion being prevented. Drawing together the history of humans and animals, Netz delivers a compelling new perspective on the issues of colonialism, capitalism, warfare, globalization, violence, and suffering. Theoretically sophisticated but written with a broad readership in mind, Barbed Wire calls for nothing less than a reconsideration of modernity.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819570761

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9780819570765

A New History of Greek Mathematics

By: Reviel Netz

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A New History of Greek Mathematics

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The ancient Greeks played a fundamental role in the history of mathematics and their ideas were reused and developed in subsequent periods all the way down to the scientific revolution and beyond. In this, the first complete history for a century. Reviel Netz offers a panoramic view of the rise and influence of Greek mathematics and its significance in world history. He explores the Near Eastern antecedents and the social and intellectual developments underlying the subject's beginnings in Greece in the fifth century BCE. He leads the reader through the proofs and arguments of key figures like Archytas, Euclid and Archimedes, and considers the totality of the Greek mathematical achievement which also includes, in addition to pure mathematics, such applied fields as optics, music, mechanics and, above all, astronomy. This is the story not only of a major historical development, but of some of the finest mathematics ever created.

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1108991912

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Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture

By: Reviel Netz

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Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture

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A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108481477

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The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder

Translation and Commentary

By: Archimedes,Reviel Netz

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The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder

Translation and Commentary

By: Archimedes,Reviel Netz

Volume 1 of the first authoritative translation of Archimedes' works into English.

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0521661609

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9780521661607

Barbed Wire

An Ecology of Modernity

By: Reviel Netz

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An Ecology of Modernity

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The history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire.

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0819569593

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A New History of Greek Mathematics

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The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder

Translation and Commentary

By: Archimedes,Reviel Netz

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By: Archimedes,Reviel Netz

Volume 1 of the first authoritative translation of Archimedes' works into English.

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The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World

From Problems to Equations

By: Reviel Netz

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From Problems to Equations

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1107320542

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The Archimedes Codex

How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

By: Reviel Netz,William Noel

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The Archimedes Codex

How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

By: Reviel Netz,William Noel

Describes the discovery of the lost works of Archimedes, the great Greek mathematician, as part of a palimpsest from a medieval prayer book created during the thirteenth century, and offers a look at the full range of mathematical discoveries and theories that were found.--

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Da Capo Press

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030681580X

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9780306815805

The Archimedes Codex

Revealing the Secrets of the World's Greatest Palimpsest

By: Reviel Netz,William Noel

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The Archimedes Codex

Revealing the Secrets of the World's Greatest Palimpsest

By: Reviel Netz,William Noel

Drawings and writings by Archimedes, previously thought to have been destroyed, have been uncovered beneath the pages of a 13th-century monk's prayer book. The authors tell the story of the survival of that prayer book and examine the process of recovering the text underneath as well as investigating why the text is so important.

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Orion

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0297645471

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The Archimedes Codex

Revealing The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Palimpsest

By: Reviel Netz,William Noel

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Revealing The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Palimpsest

By: Reviel Netz,William Noel

The story of the amazing discovery of Archimedes' lost works Drawings and writings by Archimedes, previously thought to have been destroyed, have been uncovered beneath the pages of a 13th-century monk's prayer book. These hidden texts, slowly being retrieved and deciphered by scientists, show that Archimedes' thinking (2,200 years ago) was even ahead of Isaac Newton in the 17th century. Archimedes discovered the value of Pi, he developed the theory of specific gravity and made steps towards the development of calculus. Everything we know about him comes from three manuscripts, two of which have disappeared. The third, currently in the Walters Art Museum, is a palimpsest - the text has been scraped off, the book taken apart and its parchment re-used, in this case as a prayer book. William Noel, the project director, and Reviel Netz, a historian of ancient mathematics, tell the enthralling story of the survival of that prayer book from 1229 to the present, and examine the process of recovering the invaluable text underneath as well as investigating into why that text is so important.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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1780221983

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9781780221984

The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics

A Study in Cognitive History

By: Reviel Netz

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The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics

A Study in Cognitive History

By: Reviel Netz

The aim of this book is to explain the shape of Greek mathematical thinking. It can be read on three levels: as a description of the practices of Greek mathematics; as a theory of the emergence of the deductive method; and as a case-study for a general view on the history of science. The starting point for the enquiry is geometry and the lettered diagram. Reviel Netz exploits the mathematicians' practices in the construction and lettering of their diagrams, and the continuing interaction between text and diagram in their proofs, to illuminate the underlying cognitive processes. A close examination of the mathematical use of language follows, especially mathematicians' use of repeated formulae. Two crucial chapters set out to show how mathematical proofs are structured and explain why Greek mathematical practice manages to be so satisfactory. A final chapter looks into the broader historical setting of Greek mathematical practice.

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0521541204

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The Archimedes Codex

How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

By: Reviel Netz,William Noel

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The Archimedes Codex

How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

By: Reviel Netz,William Noel

At a Christie's auction in October 1998, a battered medieval manuscript sold for two million dollars to an anonymous bidder, who then turned it over to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore for further study. The manuscript was a palimpsest-a book made from an earlier codex whose script had been scraped off and the pages used again. Behind the script of the thirteenth-century monk's prayer book, the palimpsest revealed the faint writing of a much older, tenth-century manuscript. Part archaeological detective story, part science, and part history, The Archimedes Codex tells the extraordinary story of this lost manuscript, from its tenth-century creation in Constantinople to the auction block at Christie's, and how a team of scholars used the latest imaging technology to reveal and decipher the original text. What they found was the earliest surviving manuscript by Archimedes (287 b.c.-212 b.c.), the greatest mathematician of antiquity-a manuscript that revealed, for the first time, the full range of his mathematical genius, which was two thousand years ahead of modern science.

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078674538X

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Ludic Proof

Ludic Proof

The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World

The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World

Barbed Wire

Barbed Wire

A New History of Greek Mathematics

A New History of Greek Mathematics

Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture

Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture

The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder

The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder

Barbed Wire

Barbed Wire

A New History of Greek Mathematics

A New History of Greek Mathematics

The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder

The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder

The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World

The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World

The Archimedes Codex

The Archimedes Codex

The Archimedes Codex

The Archimedes Codex

The Archimedes Codex

The Archimedes Codex

The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics

The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics

The Archimedes Codex

The Archimedes Codex

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