A Mathematician's Journeys Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science /

Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor corporatiu: SpringerLink (Online service)
Altres autors: Jones, Alexander (Editor), Proust, Christine (Editor), Steele, John M. (Editor)
Sumari:XI, 342 p. 54 illus.
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Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edició:1st ed. 2016.
Col·lecció:Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 45
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Accés en línia:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25865-2
Format: Electrònic Llibre
Taula de continguts:
  • From Graz to Göttingen: Neugebauer's Early Intellectual Journey.- "Not in Possession of Any Weltanschauung": Otto Neugebauer's Flight From Nazi Germany and his Search for Objectivity in Mathematics, in Reviewing, and in History
  • Otto Neugebauer's Visits to Copenhagen and his Connection to Denmark
  • Otto Neugebauer and Ancient Egypt
  • As the Outsider Walked in: The Historiography of Mesopotamian Mathematics until Neugebauer
  • François Thureau-Dangin and Cuneiform Mathematics
  • Mathematical and Philological Insights on Cuneiform Texts: Neugebauer's Correspondence with Fellow Assyriologists
  • After Neugebauer: Recent Developments in Mesopotamian Mathematics. - Babylonian Astronomy 1880 – 1950: The Players and the Field
  • Neugebauer's Astronomical Cuneiform Texts and its Reception
  • Translating Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Neugebauer and Beyond.    .