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      • Edited by Karine Chemla, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, Glenn W. Most, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2022
      June 2022
      ISBN:
      9781108884488
      9781108839570
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108884488
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.991kg, 476 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Mathematics, History of Mathematics, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    This is the first book-length analysis of the techniques and procedures of ancient mathematical commentaries. It focuses on examples in Chinese, Sanskrit, Akkadian and Sumerian, and Ancient Greek, presenting the general issues by constant detailed reference to these commentaries, of which substantial extracts are included in the original languages and in translation, sometimes for the first time. This makes the issues accessible to readers without specialized training in mathematics or in the languages involved. The result is a much richer understanding than was hitherto possible of the crucial role of commentaries in the history of mathematics in four different linguistic areas, of the nature of mathematical commentaries in general, of the contribution that the study of mathematical commentaries can make to the history of science and to the study of commentaries in general, and of the ways in which mathematical commentaries are like and unlike other kinds of commentaries.

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    ‘… particularly valuable are the excerpts from sources attached as an appendix with translation and commentary to each chapter and followed by individual glossaries of the most important technical or conceptual terms. … The volume exemplifies what can be done with this genre of scientific text and thereby provides a stimulating point of departure for further studies.’

    Annette Imhausen Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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