Varia Mesopotamica (eBook)

Mathematical - but not only

Jens Høyrup (Autor)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
568 Seiten
Books on Demand (Verlag)
978-3-8192-2018-0 (ISBN)

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The central theme of the 21 essays collected here and written between 1989 and 2019 is Ancient Mesopotamian Mathematics - its techniques and concepts, but also its historical dynamics and its influence on later Greek and Arabic (and thus to later European) mathematical reasoning. In addition, the first essay deals with historical dynamics in the field of language and argues that the Sumerian as a language originated from a creole language of the slaves of the late fourth millennium and only thereafter developed into the elaborate Sumerian language attested in the late 3rd Millennium BCE.

Jens Høyrup (*1943) was educated in Copenhagen as a theoretical physicist. Teaching physics for three years at an engineering school he learned respect for practical knowledge. Afterwards he trained himself as a historian of science at the newly founded Reform University in Roskilde along with supervising student projects in many areas, first of the social sciences (1973-1978), then of the human sciences (1978-2005). Emeritus since 2005

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.6.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
• ISBN-10: 3-8192-2018-6 / 3819220186
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8192-2018-0 / 9783819220180