Publication Date
2016
Publication Place
Cham -
Springer, [2016]
Subject
Neugebauer, O. (Otto), 1899-1990 - Congresses., Science -- History, Mathematics -- History, Mathematicians -- Biography
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
342
Physical Dimensions
25 cm
Library
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Record ID
3100001~!118661~!4867
Library Location
HS-SS Stacks
Date
2016
Notes
This collection of papers includes a large part of the papers presented at the conference " A Mathematician's Journeys: Otto Neugebauer between history and practice of the exact sciences," held at New York University in 2010. Some papers have been revised and expanded--Page vii., Includes bibliographical references.. This collection of papers includes a large part of the papers presented at the conference " A Mathematician's Journeys: Otto Neugebauer between history and practice of the exact sciences," held at New York University in 2010. Some papers have been revised and expanded--Page vii., Includes bibliographical references.. 118661. xi, 342 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm.
İçindekiler
From Graz to Göttingen : Neugebauer's early intellectual journey / David E. Rowe -- "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 / Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze -- Otto Neugebauer's visits to Copenhagen and his connection to Denmark / Lis Brack-Bernsen -- Otto Neugebauer and Ancient Egypt / Jim Ritter -- As the outsider walked in the historiography of Mesopotamian mathematics until Neugebauer / Jens Høyrup -- Francois Thureau-Dangin and cuneiform mathematics / Béatrice André=Salvini -- Mathematical and philological insights on cuneiform texts. Neugebauer's correspondence with fellow Assyriologists / Christine Proust -- After Neugebauer : recent developments in Mesopotamian mathematics / Duncan J. Melville -- Babylonian astronomy 1880-1950: the players and the field / Teije de Jong -- Neugebauer's Astronomical Cuneiform Texts and its reception / John M. Steele -- Translating Babylonian mathematical astronomy: Neugebauer and beyond / Mathieu Ossendrijver.
ISBN
9783319258638 (hardback), 331925863X, 9783319258652
Seri
Archimedes ; volume 45, Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 45.
