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Title: The Crest of the Peacock by George Gheverghese Joseph ISBN: 0-691-00659-8 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book!
Comment: 'Crest of the Peacock' would be an excellent text for a history of mathematics course. It doesn't cover modern mathematics, but for previous periods it is so much better than many others available. For those brought up on Kline, Boyer, Struik, etc, this book is a refreshing challenge to the thinking we have grown up with. The author does not rant about the misconception of maths as a 'western invention', but instead presents a very readable and well argued history of mathematics in various cultures, and the links between them. I learnt far more from this book than I have from any other history of maths text. Highly recommended, particularly if you teach mathematics - there is so much material in here to liven up your classes.
Rating: 5
Summary: Marvellous Book
Comment: This is a book that is truly liberating. It should be read by each and everyone of us brought up on a diet of undiluted Eurocentrism. An amazing journey through history and cultures, one is left at the end of it wanting more. For someone with a limited and frightening exposure to school math, the level and literary clarity makes much of the math quite palatable. Would unreservedly recommend the book. I would be amazed if at the end of it one's perception of mathematics has not changed for ever.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Truly Amazing Book
Comment: I have just finished reading this book. It is an amazing experience for someone whose math stopped with the high school. The sections relating to the truly forgotten people - the original inhabitants of the Pacific region, the American continents and Africa- which is mainly contained in the last chapter entitled 'Reflections' were a revelation to me. Anybody who sees math as a truly global phenomena must read this book I would be most interested in knowing more about the author.
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Title: Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs by Richard Gillings ISBN: 048624315X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1982 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture by Claudia Zaslavsky ISBN: 1556523505 Publisher: Lawrence Hill & Co Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Lost Discoveries : The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--from the Babylonians to the Maya by Dick Teresi ISBN: 0684837188 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Ethnomathematics: A Multicultural View of Mathematical Ideas by Marcia Ascher ISBN: 0412989417 Publisher: CRC Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Mathematics Elsewhere : An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures by Marcia Ascher ISBN: 0691070202 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 05 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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