Multicultural Mathematics
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The history of mathematics is one of creation and discovery in many parts of the world, and yet few people realize that Pythagoras' Theorem was known to the Babylonians a thousand years before the Greeks. Similarly, Pascal's Triangle of 1645 was actually used in practical ways much earlier in China. Indeed, there is a rich field of African, Middle Eastern, and Asian mathematics that is often ignored in the teaching of the subject. Mathematics, then,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0192822411
ISBN13:9780192822413
Release Date:August 1993
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"
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