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9781421406060 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Imagined Civilizations

  • China, the West, and Their First Encounter
  • Accounts of the seventeenth-century Jesuit Mission to China have often celebrated it as the great encounter of two civilizations. The Jesuits portrayed themselves as wise men from the West who used mathematics and science in service of their mission. Chinese literati-official Xu Guangqi (1562-1633), who collaborated with the Italian Jesuit Matteo ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781421406060 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Price:
    AUD $130.00
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  • Local release date: 14/10/2013
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  • Categories: History of mathematics [PBX]
9780801897559 Academic Inspection Copy
  • The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra

  • A monumental accomplishment in the history of non—Western mathematics, The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra explains the fundamentally visual way Chinese mathematicians understood and solved mathematical problems. It argues convincingly that what the West ''discovered'' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had already been known to the ......
  • ISBN-13: 9780801897559 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Price:
    AUD $152.00
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2011
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  • Categories: History of mathematics [PBX]
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