The mathematics of the heavens and the earth: the early history of trigonometry
Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
- Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780691129730
- ISBN10 0691129738
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 329
- Año de Edición 2009
- Encuadernación Tela
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Historia Y Filosofía De La CienciaThe mathematics of the heavens and the earth: the early history of trigonometry
Editorial PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
"The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth" is the first major history in English of the origins and early development of trigonometry. Glen Van Brummelen identifies the earliest known trigonometric precursors in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Greece, and he examines the revolutionary discoveries of Hipparchus, the Greek astronomer believed to have been the first to make systematic use of trigonometry in the second century BC while studying the motions of the stars. The book traces trigonometry's development into a full-fledged mathematical discipline in India and Islam; explores its applications to such areas as geography and seafaring navigation in the European Middle Ages and Renaissance; and, shows how trigonometry retained its ancient roots at the same time that it became an important part of the foundation of modern mathematics. "The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth" looks at the controversies as well, including disputes over whether Hipparchus was indeed the father of trigonometry, whether Indian trigonometry is original or derived from the Greeks, and the extent to which Western science is indebted to Islamic trigonometry and astronomy.