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Book Title: The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions Book Author: Karine Chemla (Editor) Hardcover: 612 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (August 27, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 110701221X ISBN-13: 978-1107012219 Book Description Publication Date: August 27, 2012 | ISBN-10: 110701221X | ISBN-13: 978-1107012219 | Edition: 1 This radical, profoundly scholarly book explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings. It overturns the view that the first mathematical proofs were in Greek geometry and rested on the logical insights of Aristotle by showing how much of that view is an artefact of nineteenth-century historical scholarship. It documents the existence of proofs in ancient mathematical writings about numbers and shows that practitioners of mathematics in Mesopotamian, Chinese and Indian cultures knew how to prove the correctness of algorithms, which are much more prominent outside the limited range of surviving classical Greek texts that historians have taken as the paradigm of ancient mathematics. It opens the way to providing the first comprehensive, textually-based history of proof.  Review "At long last, a substantial single volume on the history of ancient mathematics makes the cutting-edge research of scholars, some of whom normally publish in other languages, accessible to the English speaking reader ... this volume is a milestone - the history of ancient mathematics has its very own French revolution, and it has finally crossed the Channel."Serafina Cuomo, British Journal for the History of Science Book Description II This radical volume explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings, overturning the view that the first mathematical proofs were in Greek geometry and rested on the logical insights of Aristotle. It opens the way to providing the first comprehensive, textually based history of proof. About the Author Karine Chemla is Senior Researcher at the CNRS (Research Unit SPHERE, France) and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. She is also Professor on a Guest Chair at Northwestern University, Xi'an, as well as at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Hebei Normal University, China. She was awarded a 'Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship for Senior Foreign Scientists' in 2009. Sharing Widget |